The first Arab woman to chair the Security Council

The Security Council for the month of March presided over by the first Arab woman to occupy this important position, an honorable model for Arab women, for her hard work and continuous development, and she is also one of the most successful Arab diplomats.

Lana Zaki Nusseibeh is an Emirati diplomat who has held the position of Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations since September 2013. She has held many important positions before that, she was a consultant for UNESCO in Paris from 2000 to 2001, and an analyst with the Security and Terrorism Programme of the Gulf Research Center from 2004 to 2006, then she was head of the International Renewable Energy Agency taskforce, after that she worked within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009, first as Director of the Policy Planning Department and then as Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And in 2013, she was appointed as a permanent representative of the UAE to the United Nations by a decision of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, to become the first woman in the position.

And today, she chairs the Security Council, as the first Arab woman to occupy that position, as it is a position worthy of her expertise and great effort.