Uz. Mohamed Aseel Hassan
Board Member

Uz. Mohamed Aseel Hassan is a registered lawyer in the Maldives since 2013 and an elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Maldives Bar Council. He acquired his Law Degree from Oxford Brookes University and has a Master’s Degree in International and Commercial Dispute Resolution Law, with a special focus on Arbitration from the University of Westminster in the UK. 

 

Uz. Aseel has completed various trainings in Alternative Dispute Resolution, including a Program on Negotiation by Insight Collaborative at the New York University School of Law and attended classes on Environmental Law and Policy at Columbia Law School. Uz. Aseel is also a Climate Change fellow of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).

 

Uz. Aseel is currently the Legal Counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives, and has worked as an Attorney at the Attorney General's Office, and at the Permanent Mission of the Maldives to United Nations in New York.

 

Uz. Aseel is also a Co-Founder Member and Board Member of the Public Interest Law Center.