Prince Zeid Ra'ad AL HUSSEIN Ambassador of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States, Washington DC

	B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. from Cambridge University, served as an officer in the Jordanian military
1994-1996	Political affairs officer in UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia
	coordinator of the Non-Aligned Movement for several years
1996-2000	Jordan s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN
	Central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
2002-2005	Elected the first president of the governing body of the ICC
	chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Scope of Legal Protection under the
	Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
2004	Chairman of the "Panel of Experts for the UN Secretary-General s Trust Fund to
	assist States in the Settlement of Disputes through the International Court of
	Justice", boundary dispute between Benin and Niger
	Jordan s representative and head of delegation before the International Court of
	Justice, relating to the wall built by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
2004-2005	"Advisor to the Secretary-General on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse"
	chairs the Consultative Committee for the United Nations Development Fund for
	Women (UNIFEM)
since 2000	Jordan s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations

among others:
1989 Religious Militancy in the Arab Middle East: Threats and Responses 1979-1988, in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs
1994 A Nightmare Avoided: Jordan and Suez 1956, in Israel Affairs

Der UN-Sicherheitsrat und die Herrschaft des Rechts