Ahmad Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Jarrah, director and founder of the Arab Mine Advisory Team, was born in Al-Mazaar, Irbid, in 1960. He grew up in the town of Al-Mazaar in a Jordanian family of eight, being the third child of this esteemed family. His father worked as a police officer in the General Security Directorate. Al-Jarrah married at the age of twenty-four and had four daughters and two sons. He completed his primary, preparatory, and secondary education in his hometown, then joined the Jordanian Armed Forces in 1979 as a military trainee, finishing his service in 1999 after twenty years in the Royal Engineering Corps.