Ambassador Yousef Abdelghant

Ambassador Yousef Abdelghani joined the Foreign Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1995 and has served in Jordanian embassies in Lebanon, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye. He has held several senior positions within the Ministry, including Director of the African Department, Acting Director of the Asian Department, Chief of Protocol, Director of the Latin and Central American Department, and Director of Economic Affairs and International Cooperation. From 2013 to 2019, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Jordan to the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 2024, he has been serving as Jordan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of India and is also Ambassador-Designate to Sri Lanka and Nepal on a non-resident basis. Before joining the diplomatic service, he worked as a full-time instructor at Applied Science Private University from 1993 to 1995, teaching Political Science and International Relations. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science, with a focus on International Relations and American Politics, from Sam Houston State University, USA.