Ambassador / Dr. Hussein Abdel Khalek Hassouna

Biography

• Member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs and The Coordinator of the Permanent Committee for American Affairs.

• Member of the United Nations Commission on International Law.

• Member of the Board of Arbitrators of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the World Bank in Washington.

• Member of the Board of Arbitrators of Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration.

• Former Assistant of Egyptian Foreign Minister for International Legal Affairs and Treaties, having served as Ambassador to Egypt in a number of Countries.

• Head of the Arab League Mission in New York and Washington.

• Worked as a legal advisor in the Egyptian-Israeli peace negotiations and in the Taba negotiations.

• Representing Egypt in the Sixth Legal Committee of the United Nations General Assembly and several special legal committees, such as the Committee on the Definition of Aggression, the Terrorism Committee and the International Trade Law Commission.

• Representing Egypt in international legal conferences such as the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Geneva Convention for the Victims of War and the Montreal Convention on Civil Aviation.

• Represented the Arab League in regional and international legal conferences such as the United Nations Conference on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Conference on the Israeli Wall.

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Law in Washington and the International Legal Training Center in New York.

• Member of the American Society of International Law, Egyptian Society of International Law.