Hamza Hameed is a Pakistani lawyer working as a Legal Consultant at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome, Italy. His primary focus is on secured transactions law and fintech, whereby he works on the Cape Town Convention and its Protocols, as well as leading UNIDROIT’s project on Digital Assets and Private Law. He is closely involved in the activities of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project and is a Manager at the UNIDROIT Foundation.

He holds an LLB from the University of London International Programme and an Advanced LLM degree in Air and Space Law from the International Institute for Air and Space Law at Leiden University. He is also the Co-Chair of the Space Generation Advisory Council, and a Member of the International Institute for Space Law (IISL) and INSOL International.