Leena Al-Hadid Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Her Excellency The Right Honorable
Leena Al-Hadid
Office:Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Predecessor:Darmansjah Djumala
Successor:Mikaela Kumlin Granit
Native Name:لينا الحديد
Birth Date:1971 1, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:London, U.K.
Occupation:Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia.
Education:BSc in Law
Alma Mater:University of Jordan.

Leena Al-Hadid (Arabic: لينا الحديد, born 30 January 1971) is a Jordanian diplomat, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia.[2] She also serves as Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna. In 2018–2019, she was the elected chairperson of the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors.

Career

Hadid studied law at the University of Jordan and started her diplomatic career in 1995 when she joined the Jordanian Foreign Service as political officer at the private office of Jordan's Foreign Minister.[3] She was later relocated as diplomatic attaché to the United Nations and alternate Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna from 1996–2000. Hadid later worked as political officer to Jordan's mission to the European Union in Brussels from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, she served as chief diplomatic human rights officer to the Jordanian mission to the United Nations in Geneva. In 2009, she served as deputy consul general in Dubai until 2014. From 2014 to 2018, she worked as director of the Jordanian foreign ministry's international relations & organizations department, as well as deputy director of the department of human rights and humanitarian security which dealt with the Syrian refugee crisis.

In July 2018, Hadid became the Jordanian ambassador to Slovakia.[4] She was appointed as permanent representative of Jordan to the United Nations in Vienna on 11 September 2018.[5] In the same month, she was appointed as Jordan's ambassador to Austria.[6]

On 24 September 2018, she was elected by acclamation to a one-year term as chairperson of the IAEA board of governors.[3] Her tenure as chairperson of the IAEA was marked by the death of director general Yukiya Amano,[7] the setting of the 2020 IAEA budget, and sensitive talks regarding Iran's nuclear program. On 23 September 2019, she was succeeded as IAEA chairperson by the Swedish ambassador to the agency, Mikaela Kumlin Granit.[8]

Al-Hadid serves as ambassador and permanent representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),[9] and is Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna.[3]

She is fluent in Arabic and English.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Women Ambassadors. SOCIETY Magazin . Wien . 374 . 2018 . 53.
  2. Web site: Jordan . Mediterranean Women Mediators Network . 6 November 2019.
  3. Web site: Ambassador Leena Al-Hadid Takes Over as New Chairperson of IAEA Board of Governors . International Atomic Energy Agency . 6 November 2019 . en . 24 September 2018.
  4. Web site: State Secretary Parízek Receives designated Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Leena Al-Hadid - News Detail - Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic . www.mzv.sk . 24 November 2019.
  5. Web site: New Permanent Representative of Jordan presents credentials . www.unis.unvienna.org . . 6 November 2019 . 11 September 2018.
  6. Web site: Meet the New Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to Austria: H.E. Mrs. Leena Al-Hadid . Vienna International News . 24 November 2019 . en.
  7. Web site: In Memoriam: IAEA pays tribute to Yukiya Amano - World Nuclear News . world-nuclear-news.org . 6 November 2019.
  8. News: Jordan hands over chairmanship of IAEA Board of Governors to Sweden . 6 November 2019 . Jordan News Agency (Petra).
  9. Web site: H.E. Leena Al-Hadid, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the OSCE, with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger . OSCE Secretary General . 17 December 2019 . Vienna . 5 September 2018.