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Maan Rashid Khalil Erekat (October
12, 1960 in Jericho - ) is a diplomat and politician from the State of Palestine.
Education and educational
attainment
Erekat was born on October 12, 1960
in Jericho. He studied finance at Arizona State University and obtained a
bachelor's degree from it in 1983, and in 1987 he obtained a master's degree in
business administration from Western International University within the Apollo
Education Group. He received a course in good governance at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University in 2001.
Political life
Erekat served as a spokesperson for
the Orient House in the period 1993-1998, which is the headquarters of the
Palestine Liberation Organization in the eastern part of Jerusalem. Then in
1998 he moved to work in the Palestinian National Authority within the
Department of Negotiations Affairs and continued until March 2008. In 2008-2009
he worked as General Coordinator of the Department of Negotiations Affairs.
On April 18, 2009, the Palestinian
President appointed him as head of the PLO delegation in the United States, and
he continued until March 2017. He was appointed ambassador of the State of
Palestine to Britain, but Britain refused to grant him a diplomatic visa in his
capacity as the ambassador of the State of Palestine.
On August 26, 2020, Erekat was
retired.
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