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Mired bin Ra'ad bin Zeid ( ar, مرعد بن رعد بن زيد; born June 11, 1965) is the second son of Prince

Ra'ad bin Zeid Ra'ad bin Zeid ( ar, رعد بن زيد; born 18 February 1936) is the son of Prince Zeid of the Hashemite House and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (''Fakhr un-nisa'' or ''Fahr-El-Nissa''), a Turkish noblewoman. Upon the death of his father on 18 O ...

, head of the royal houses of

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and

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

Early life

Mired bin Ra'ad is the second son of Prince

, Lord Chamberlain of Jordan, and his Swedish-born wife Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind, subsequently.

Education

Ra'ad studied at

Reed's School Reed's School is an independent secondary boarding school for boys with a mixed sixth form located in Cobham, Surrey, England. There are currently around 700 day pupils (620 boys, 80 girls) with 100 full-time boarders (80 boys, 20 girls). The s ...

in England and at the

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, New Jersey, graduating in 1983. He then graduated from

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, in 1987. He graduated from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

with a masters in philosophy and historical studies in 1988. He attended to

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is one of several military academies of the United Kingdom and is the British Army's initial officer training centre. It is located in the town of ...

and graduated in 1990. He then returned to Tufts University and studied at

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. The School is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in its ...

and graduated in 1995.

Career

A Royal Decree issued on April 21, 2014, appointed Prince Mired as Head of th
Higher Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities
(succeeding Prince Ra'ad bin Zaid Chief Chamberlain). As such, he has publicly addressed Jordan’s obligations towards persons with disabilities according to its obligations under the

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties to the convention are required to promote, ...

. He is also Chairman of the National Commission for Demining and Rehabilitation of Jordan. As Head of the Hashemite military patients, he also served as Vice President of the Supreme Council for the Affairs of Disabled Persons.

Special Envoy of the Ottawa Treaty

In 2008, Prince Mired presided over the Eighth Meeting of the States Parties to the ''Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction'', or

Ottawa Treaty The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine ...

, which took place in the Dead Sea. In that position he visited

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to promote the Convention and its norms—meeting with Foreign Minister

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,—and

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, which at the time where still not members of the Ottawa Treaty. As he ended his mandate, the Prince was asked to represent efforts to promote said Convention becoming Special Envoy. As Special Envoy, Prince Mired promotes a universal ban against

landmines A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automati ...

and support for its victims. His missions have taken him to the United States (2010) where he met with

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s. That year, he also met with Mongolia's Prime Minister S. Batbold. In 2011, he visited South Korea, and the Polynesian Kingdom of

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where he encountered the Prime Minister who is also Minister of Foreign Affairs & Defence Lord Tu'ivakano, and Tuvalu where he met with Prime Minister

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, and, Minister of Foreign Affairs Apisai Lelemia. In 2013 he travelled to China to meet with then Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

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and other authorities at the Ministry of Defence. In 2018, he toured Sri Lanka meeting with President

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, Prime Minister

Ranil Wickremesinghe Ranil Wickremesinghe ( si, රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ, ta, ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the current president of Sri Lanka since 21 July 2 ...

'','' Minister of Foreign Affairs

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, Minister of Prison Reform in charge of mine action Deva Manoharan Swaminathan, among others. That same year, he carried a mission to

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to promote the ban, meeting with Minister of International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin and Minister of Defence Lt. Gen. Sein Win. In

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, he also met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongpane Savanphet; Minister of Defence Lt. Gen. Chansamone Chanyalath; Minister of Labour and Social Welfare

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; and Prime Minister

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. In 2019, together with

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, and

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, they kicked off a global meeting on landmines, in Oslo, Norway where the landmine treaty had been adopted two decades years earlier.

Personal life

On 1 July 1992 in Amman, Prince Mired bin Ra'ad married Dina Mohammad Khalifeh with whom they have three children: * Princess Shirin bint Mired (born on 19 May 1993 in Amman). She married Jafer Mohammed Nabulsi on 4 October 2021 in a Katb El-Kitab ceremony at Prince Mired bin Ra'ad home. * Prince Rakan bin Mired (born on 20 November 1995 in Amman). * Prince Jafar bin Mired (born on 4 September 2002 in Amman). Princess Dina Mired is a former Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, and continues to be actively engaged in efforts in the field of cancer control in the developing world. Mired's older brother, Prince Zeid, is the former

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, having taken up this post in September 2014 until 2018.

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mired bin Raad, Prince 1965 births Living people People from Amman House of Hashim Princes of Iraq Jordanian people of Turkish descent Jordanian people of Swedish descent Alumni of the University of Cambridge Jordanian military personnel Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Jordanian princes People educated at Reed's School The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni