Leena Al-Hadid

Career Hadid studied law at the University of Jordan and started her diplomatic career in 1995 when she joined the Jordanian Foreign Service as political officer at the private office of Jordan's Foreign Minister. She was later relocated as diplomatic attaché to the United Nations and alternate Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna from 1996 to 2000. She was appointed as permanent representative of Jordan to the United Nations in Vienna on 11 September 2018. In the same month, she was appointed as Jordan's ambassador to Austria.

On 24 September 2018, she was elected by acclamation to a one-year term as chairperson of the IAEA board of governors. the setting of the 2020 IAEA budget, and sensitive talks regarding Iran's nuclear program. On 23 September 2019, she was succeeded as IAEA chairperson by the Swedish ambassador to the agency, Mikaela Kumlin Granit.

Al-Hadid serves as ambassador and permanent representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and is Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna.

In 2023, she is accredited as Ambassador to France. In 2024, her accreditation is extended to the Holy See.

She is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.