Welcome to the United Nations
Chair:
- H.E Ambassador Omar Hilale, Morocco, Vice President of ECOSOC
Panel 1: Nepal, Georgia
Panel 2: Kenya Nigeria, Uganda
Bangladesh, India, Morocco, Niger
High-Level Political Forum 2020
Under the auspices of ECOSOC
7 - 16 July 2020 New YorkBiographies
H.E. Mr. Omar Hilale
Vice President of ECOSOC
H.E. Hilale has been Morocco's Permanent Representative to the UN in New York since April 2014. He is a career diplomat who has served in various posts around the world. Before his appointment in New York, he served as the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN in Geneva starting in 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he served as the General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. From 1996 to 2001, he served in several diplomatic posts. including as Ambassador to Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia. Before that he served as a Member of the Cabinet of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and a Member of the International Committee of Legal Experts, in charge of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Chemical Weapons. From 1976 to 1991, Ambassador Hilale served in the Moroccan Embassies in Algiers, Monrovia, Addis Ababa and Geneva. Ambassador Hilale graduated from the Mohammed V University in Rabat in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
