Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud was appointed on February 15, 2009 handling the  political, legal and Senate affairs at the Embassy. He also served as the Director of the Legal Department and Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Amman, Jordan and is a member of the International Law Commission, serving as the 2^nd Vice-Chairman in 2007.

Mr. Hmoud worked extensively on the UN matters, serving as Diplomat and Legal Advisor at the Jordanian Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2001-2006, and as Vice-Chairman of the Legal (Sixth) Committee during the Sixtieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. From 1994-1999 he served as a Legal Advisor at the Office of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal and was a Legal Advisor to Jordan during the peace process negotiations. He has advised the Jordanian Government on issues related to the accession to the World Trade Organization, including issues of intellectual property matters (TRIPs agreement), and negotiated several of Jordan’s bilateral and multilateral agreements, including investment, commercial, transportation, energy and international loan agreements. He also served as Legal Counsel for Jordan during the proceedings of the International Court of Justice on the question of the “Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” 2004, as well as in cases before tribunals of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Deputes (ICSID).

Mr. Hmoud has participated in a vast array of conferences, including representing Jordan in the Legal Committee during the 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th , 61st and 62nd sessions of the UN General Assembly's in New York. He also was Jordan’s representative to the 8th, 9th and 10th sessions of the Preparatory Committee of the International Criminal Court (2001-2002), and Jordan’s representative during the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th sessions of the Assembly of State Parties to Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005) in New York and The Hague. He served in New York as Vice-Chairman of the UN General Assembly Ad hoc Committee on the scope of legal protection under the Convention on the Safety of the United Nations and Associated Personnel. He was the Rapporteur of the UN General Assembly Ad hoc Committee for the elaboration of an international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings.

In December 2004, Mr. Hmoud was awarded with Jordan’s Istiklal (Independence) medal of the 3rd order.

Mr. Hmoud holds a Masters of Law (L.L.M) from the George Washington University, National Law Center, Washington, DC, with specialization in International and Comparative Law and a second L.L.M from Franklin Pierce Law Center (currently the University of New Hampshire Law School) with specialization in Intellectual Property Rights. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Jordan Law School.

PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AND LECTURES

• 'The Use of Force against Iraq', 36 Cornell Int'l L.J. (2004) 435-453.

• American Bar Association Section of International Law: Speaker/Panelist at the 2005 Spring Meeting, Washington D.C.

• 2005 UNITAR Summer Institute on Global Issues Facing the United Nations, 6-10 June, 2005, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Speaker/Panelist on U.N. Standards Setting – Method, Technique and Implementation.

• 'Organization of the Islamic Conference', in Giuseppe Nesi (Ed), International Cooperation in Counter-Terrorism, the United Nations and Regional Organizations in the Fight Against Terrorism, (U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited) 161-170.

• United Nations Meeting on the Question of Palestine, 8-9 March 2005 Geneva: Presentation of the Significance of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Construction of a Wall in OPT.

• 'Negotiating the Draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism: Major Bones of Contention', Journal of International Criminal Justice 2006; doi: 10.1093/jicj/mql081.

• Lectured and participated in panels on various topics in international law, intellectual property and international and diplomatic affairs in different fora, most recently at Columbia University Law School, University of Jordan and Cambridge.