Amat Al Alim Alsoswa

Amat Al Alim Alsoswa (; born 27 August 1958) is a Yemeni journalist, and Yemen's first female ambassador and minister.

She served as the Assistant Secretary-General, then Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States.

Biography Alsoswa was born on 27 August 1958 in Taiz. began her career as a journalist at a very young age: she began broadcasting at the age of 10 as part of a local radio program in Taiz Governorate. Later on, she became a news anchor on Yemeni television, also serving as a political commentator. Alsoswa holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from Cairo University (1980) and an M.A. in International Communications from the American University in Washington, D.C. (1984). She speaks Arabic and English fluently and also speaks French and Russian.

Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as Deputy TV Programs Director at Sanaa TV, where she held the most senior position as a woman in Yemeni television. Later, she became the Chief Editor of Mutaba'at I'elamiah Journal.

From 1997 to 1999, she was Undersecretary at Yemen's Ministry of Information and Chairperson of the National Women's Committee, the first woman Undersecretary in the Ministry of Information.

In May 2003, Alsoswa was appointed the Minister of Human rights in Yemen, the second female Minister of Human Rights in Yemen's history after Waheeba Ghalib Faree al-Fakih. During her tenure, she established and oversaw Yemen's Human Rights Ministry, initiated the country's second national human rights report, and established a public human rights resource center. In 2006, she became the Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator for the Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

On 22 March 2014, Alsoswa was appointed Executive Director of the Executive Bureau for the Acceleration of Aid Absorption and Implementation of the Mutual Accountability Framework.

Alsoswa has published and lectured extensively and has received numerous awards. She was made an Officier of the Légion d'Honneur (France) and received the Medal of the Egyptian Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity (Egypt). She also stresses that "even against immense odds, women remain catalysts for reform in Arab countries."