Hussein Hassouna

H.E. Ambassador Dr. Hussein Hassouna is Chief Representative of the League of Arab States to the United States. During a distinguished diplomatic career for Egypt, he served as Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United Nations, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, and before that, Ambassador to Yugoslavia. He has been a representative of Egypt to major United Nations conferences, Non-Aligned, African and Arab meetings, and a member of the Egyptian delegation to successive Middle East peace negotiations in Cairo, Tel Aviv, and Washington, DC, which led to the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.

Ambassador Hassouna has also served as Director of Cabinet to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, and was Director of the Egyptian Press and Information Bureau in Paris, France. Prior to that, he served in Washington, DC, as Political Counselor at the Egyptian Embassy and was Special Adviser to the Egyptian Foreign Minister on Legal and International Organization Affairs. He was also a member of the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations in New York.

The author of The Arab World: Economic Reforms and Business Opportunities, he earned an LLB. and PhD in international law from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He has also written books on Middle East conflicts, regionalism, the United Nations, economics, and business in the Arab world, as well as articles on international law and world affairs in various publications, including the American Journal of International Law, World Policy Journal, and United Nations publications.

Ambassador Hassouna has lectured at universities in the United States, Canada, England, and France, including Yale, Georgetown, UCLA, McGill, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne, as well as at economic conferences of Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. He is a board member of the International Development Law Organization, the International Law Institute, the Center for Global Training in Rule of Law, the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and the Advisory Committee/ Academy for Educational Development.