Aidan O'Hara

Aidan O'Hara (born June 11, 1964) is an Irish diplomat currently serving as European Union Ambassador to Sudan. O'Hara was the Irish ambassador to Ethiopia from 2012 to 2016. In 2022, he assumed control as EU Ambassador to Sudan. He presented his credentials on 12 April 2022 to the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

Biography O'Hara was born on 11 June 1964 in Dublin, Ireland.

From 2012 to 2016 he was the Irish ambassador to Ethiopia. He was replaced by Sonja Hyland in this post, who also took on the missions of Djibouti, South Sudan, and the African Union. Following his tenure as ambassador, he served as Director of Policy Planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and also as Director of the European Division

Since 2022 he has been the European Union's Ambassador to Sudan. He later explained that the group who attacked him were searching for cash and mobile phones. Although he wasn't injured in the initial incident, he was attacked again during his evacuation through a Sudanese airbase, during which a member of his convoy was wounded.