Sector : Government Officials, Ambassadors

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• Country of residence: Portugal

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1952

• Age: 74

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Ahmad Bader Ibrahim Aqel (born December 1, 1952 in Ein Sultan camp , Jericho ) is a Palestinian civil engineer and diplomat who served as the State of Palestine’s ambassador to Iraq between 2014 and 2023, and was also the State of Palestine’s ambassador to Romania between 2009 and 2014.

Early Life and Education

Aql was born in the Ain al-Sultan refugee camp near Jericho on December 1, 1952, to a Palestinian family displaced from the village of Dhikrin in the Hebron district, which was destroyed by Zionist militias during the 1948 Nakba War . His family was displaced again after the 1967 Six- Day War to Jordan . He studied science at the University of Jordan for only one year, then left to study civil engineering at a university in New Delhi, India , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1983 and later a master's degree in urban planning in 1989. He later obtained a doctorate in civil engineering from Romania in 2014.

working life

During his studies in India, he was president of the General Union of Palestinian Students between 1978 and 1982, and secretary of the Fatah movement between 1983 and 1988.

In 1984, he was appointed as a diplomat with the rank of First Secretary in the Palestine Liberation Organization office in India and continued until 1989 when he moved to Tunisia and worked in politics and supervised Palestinian communities in Western Europe and America until 2009.

On 14 August 2009, he was sworn in before President Mahmoud Abbas as Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Romania . On 16 September 2009, he presented his credentials to Romanian Deputy Foreign Minister Doru Costa as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and on 30 September 2009, he returned them to Romanian President Traian Băsescu . He continued to serve as Ambassador to Romania until 2014.

On November 18, 2014, he presented his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Palestine to Iraq to Iraqi President Fuad Masoum . He continued to serve as ambassador to Iraq until his retirement in 2023.

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