Kamal Ghali

Assistant United States Attorney, Deputy Chief Cyber and Intellectual Property, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Georgia

Kamal Ghali is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. He serves as Deputy Chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Section and is the office’s point of contact for all cyber fraud events occurring in the metro-Atlanta area. He has prosecuted and investigated some of the largest data breaches in U.S. history, as well as state-sponsored cyber-intrusions. In 2017, he received a Director’s Award from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for superior performance in the co-prosecution of the developers and promoters of SpyEye, a type of malware that inflicted nearly a billion dollars in financial harm around the world. He previously served as a judicial law clerk to Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and Circuit Judge Frank M. Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was formerly a litigation associate at Bondurant, Mixson, and Elmore, LLP. He holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Emory University.