Jalil Abbas Jilani

Jalil Abbas Jilani

Jilani meeting Maryland governor, Martin O'Malley
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States
Assumed office
December 2013
Nominated by Mamnoon Hussain
Preceded by Sherry Rehman
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
In office
March 2012  December 2013
Personal details
Born (1955-02-02) 2 February 1955
Multan, Pakistan
Nationality Pakistani

Jalil Abbas Jilani is a Pakistani diplomat and the current Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States. A specialist in South Asian affairs, he is the 22nd person to hold this office. Previously he was the Foreign Secretary from March 2012 to December 2013.

Ambassador Jilani was born on 2 February 1955 in Multan, Pakistan. He comes from a family of bureaucrats. His father, Makhdoom Mazhar Hussain Jilani, was a Public Service Commission officer and his older brother, Asghar Hussain Jilani, was the Chief Secretary of Punjab. Former Chief Justice of Pakistan, Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, is his maternal uncle.

His wife is Shaista Jilani, daughter of Salahuddin Jilani of Multan.

Jalil Jilani has 3 children, Ahmed, Amir Hamza and Talha. Ahmed works for the United Nations in Rome, Amir had been employed by the Centre for International Economics in Australia, but is now attending graduate school at Georgetown; and Talha is a senior at Sidwell Friends School in DC. [1]

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (Oxford) and an M.Sc. in Defence and Strategic Studies.

After joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in March 1979, he served at the Foreign Office as a Section Officer (1981-1982) and a Director (1992-1995). As Deputy Secretary at Prime Minister’s Secretariat (1989-1992). And, again at Foreign Office, as the Director General South Asia & SAARC (2003-2007).[2] He also served as the Government’s Spokesman on Foreign Affairs (2005).

His other assignments include Deputy High Commissioner, Acting High Commissioner, First Consul, Acting Ambassador to

He has also served as Ambassador of Pakistan to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union. He used to interact with the NATO HQ based in Brussels on regular basis.[3]

He was appointed as Ambassador to the United States in December 2013.[4]

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sherry Rehman
Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
2013current
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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