Salah Abdel-Shafi

H.E.
Salah Abdel-Shafi
Permanent Observer to the United Nations Offices in Vienna and Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Austria for Palestine
Assumed office
September 2013

Salah Abdel-Shafi (born 1962 in Gaza City) is a Palestinian economist, and the current Palestinian ambassador to Austria and permanent observer to the United Nations in Vienna, holding the position since September 2013. From 2010 to 2013 he served as the Palestinian ambassador to Germany, he was the first Palestinian representative to Germany to officially hold ambassadorial status.[1] From 2006 to 2010 he was the Palestinian ambassador to Sweden.[2] Formerly General Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, a consultant, and adviser to the World Bank. His father was the Palestinian political and community leader Haidar Abdel-Shafi.

References

  1. ↑ Botschafter, der Keiner sein darf http://www.zeit.de/2012/35/Palaestina-Botschafter-Berlinlanguage=Germantitle=Ein Botschafter, der Keiner sein darf Check |url= value (help). Retrieved 6 October 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Jeffay, Nathan (8 January 2009). "What Happens to Gaza When the Fighting Stops?". Forward.com. Retrieved 2 January 2012.



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