Ambassador Samira Hanna-El-Daher

Visiting Professor Fields of expertise Diplomacy International Organizations Democracy Peace and Conflict Prevention Gender Issues, especially condition of Arab Women Inter-religion Dialogue Geopolitics Francophonie Japan, China, Australia, Cyprus

Education

• DEA (post-Master degree) in Political Science and Public Law, Université Paris IX-Dauphine, France

• DES (post-Master degree) in Public Law, Université de Lyon, France

• DES (post-Master degree) in Lebanese Law, Lebanese University, Lebanon

• Diploma in Public Speaking, New York University, USA

Other Current Posts

• UNESCO: Senior Consultant

• UNESCO: Member of the Sponsoring Committee of the UNESCO program: “Tagore, Neruda, Césaire: For a Reconciled Universal”

Previous Experience

First woman Ambassador of Lebanon (to any country), First Woman Ambassador to Japan (from any country)

• Ambassador of Lebanon to Japan and the Philippines

• Ambassador of Lebanon to Cyprus

• Ambassador of Lebanon and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to UNESCO

• President of the Special Committee of UNESCO

• President of the Finance and Administrative Commission of UNESCO

• President of the G77 and China group at UNESCO.

• Representative of Lebanon to the Francophonie International Organization, and President of the political and economic committees of the Organization

• Counselor at the Embassy of Lebanon in London

• Chargé d’Affaires of Lebanon in China

• Chargé d'Affaires of Lebanon in Bern Switzerland

• Chargé d’Affaires of Lebanon in Canberra Australia

• Consul General of Lebanon in New York

• Legal advisor to the Lebanese Mission in New York

• Consul General of Lebanon in Sydney

• Member of the Francophonie fact-finding mission in Mauritania.

Selected Publications

• UNESCO Handbook on teaching disarmament to teachers

• Various publications in the United States, Australia, Lebanon, France