{"id":930294,"date":"2026-10-10T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/?p=930294"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:11:10","slug":"biography-of-the-secretary-general-of-the-organization-of-islamic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/?p=930294&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Biography of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/\u063a\u0639\u0647.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-930295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/\u063a\u0639\u0647.png 304w, https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/\u063a\u0639\u0647-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Name: Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nationality: Mauritanian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Date of Election: 27 August 2026<br>Professional Experience<br>\u00b7<br>September 2023 \u2013 July 2026:<br>Strategic Advisor: United Nations and International Diplomatic Academies<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>April 2022 \u2013 July 2023:<br>Minister \/ Chief of Cabinet to the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania<br>June 2018 \u2013 March 2022:<br>Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Mauritanians Abroad (Mauritanian<br>Government)<br>May 2015 \u2013 February 2018:<br>Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Yemen (with the rank of Under-Secretary<br>General), United Nations. New York \u2013 Amman (Jordan)<br>January 2015 \u2013 April 2015:<br>Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for the<br>Elimination of Ebola (at the level of Under-Secretary-General). Ghana &#8211; Guinea &#8211; Liberia &#8211;<br>Sierra Leone<br>February 2014 \u2013 December 2014:<br>Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Deputy Head of the United Nations<br>Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (at the<br>level of Assistant Secretary-General). Tripoli (Libya)<br>April 2012 \u2013 February 2014:<br>United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of<br>the United Nations Development Programme. Sana\u2019a (Yemen)<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>\u00b7<br>May 2008 \u2013 March 2012:<br>United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of<br>the United Nations Development Programme. Damascus (Syria)<br>May 2007 \u2013 May 2008:<br>Director of Change Management, Office of the Executive Director. UNICEF Headquarters \u2013 New<br>York<br>December 2006 \u2013 April 2007:<br>Deputy Director of Human Resources at UNICEF \u2013 Strategic Talent Manager. Headquarters \u2013<br>New York<br>May 2005 \u2013 December 2006:<br>Deputy Regional Director, UNICEF Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa (ESARO).<br>Nairobi (Kenya)<br>September 2002 \u2013 May 2005:<br>UNICEF Resident Representative, Tbilisi, Georgia (Central and Eastern Europe \/ Commonwealth<br>of Independent States)<br>April 2000 \u2013 August 2002:<br>Regional Human Resources Officer, Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa.<br>Amman (Jordan)<br>July 1998 \u2013 April 2000:<br>Head of Human Resources \u2013 Middle East and North Africa Region. UNICEF Headquarters \u2013 New<br>York<br>August 1997 \u2013 July 1998:<br>A research year at the University of Manchester \u2013 United Kingdom<br>May 1986 \u2013 June 1997:<br>Operations Officer at UNICEF. Mauritania \u2013 Togo &#8211; Democratic Republic of the Congo<br>July 1985 \u2013 April 1986:<br>Project Officer (Community Development), Food Security Commission \u2013 Government of<br>Mauritania<br>Academic Qualifications<br>Advanced Certificate in Economics and Social Policy Analysis<br>(April 2006 \u2013 February 2007)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maastricht School of Governance, Maastricht University (Netherlands)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":930295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930296,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930294\/revisions\/930296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/930295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfm52.mofa.gov.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}