Professor Kai Ambos has been Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since May 2003. He is also Member of the Office of Examination (Justizprüfungsamt) of the Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony and freelance consultant on the issues of international criminal law and judicial reform in Latin America to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ-German agency for technical cooperation), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and other organisations.
From 1991 to 2003, he was senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) in charge of “International Criminal Law” and “Spanish-speaking Latin America” Sections.
On behalf of Germany Professor Ambos has participated in the negotiations on the creation of the International Criminal Court and later became a member of expert working group of the German Federal Ministry of Justice on implementing the Rome Statute. He has also worked intensively in Latin America on human rights, drug-related issues and criminal law reforms. Professor Ambos has written significantly on international criminal law and procedure in German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
He is a member of editorial board of several international criminal journals in Europe and Latin America. His educational background includes: study of law and political science at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany), Oxford (United Kingdom) and Munich (Germany); 1st and 2nd state exams; and “Habilitation” (post-doctoral qualification for a professorship) in criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, comparative law and public international law at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Germany).