Houssam Diab is Lebanese lawyer and diplomat currently serving as

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the

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Education

Diab was educated at

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

, Lebanon where he received a degree in Sciences in 1990 before obtaining a degree in Arts and Business from same University in 1992. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Law from

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, Beirut in 1994.

Career

Diab began his diplomatic career in the 1990s when he joined the foreign ministry. He was posted to the Lebanon Embassy in

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as First Secretary in 1995 and served until 1999 when he was appointed Counsellor, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations, New York. Diab rose through the ranks to the position of Consul General of Lebanon in Los Angeles from 2008 to 2010 and later transferred to the Consulate in

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in 2011. He was appointed ambassador in 2012 and deployed to the Sultanate of Oman in 2013 and served there until 2017 when he was deployed to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

References

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