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Walid Hadid (Counselor)
Deputy Chief of Mission

Biography

Mr. Al-Hadid was appointed on March 1st 2006 as counselor at the Embassy of Jordan in Washington, DC, prior to that he was the Director of International Economic Affairs Unit at the Foreign Ministry in Amman.

His earlier assignments included, among others, Assistant Director of the Foreign Minister’s Private Office, Political Officer at the International and Organizations Department at the Foreign Ministry. He also served at the Jordanian mission to the United Nations, during this period he was the Officer in charge of Economic and Environmental Affairs (UNGA Second Committee) and Representative of Jordan in the Budget and Administrative Committee (UNGA Fifth Committee) and member of the Committee of Information and Committee of Conferences at the United Nations, furthermore, he was also elected as Rapporteur of the Second Committee of Economic and Environmental Affairs. In addition, Mr. Al-Hadid held the position of Jordanian Consul and Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs at the Embassies of Jordan to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Before joining Foreign Ministry in 1991, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Economics—University of Jordan.

Mr. Al-Hadid holds a Master degree in Economics, and B.A. degree in Economics and Statistics, with a minor in Political Sciences from University of Jordan.

He was born in Amman in 1965. He is married with four children.