Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad
Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad is the Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations. He comes to the UN from his posting as Ambassador of the Sudan to the India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. During his last posting at the Sudan Mission to the United Nations from 1982 to 1986, Mr. Mohamad had a range of responsibilities and represented his Government at several meetings of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and main Committees of the General Assembly.
A veteran diplomat who began his career with the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1975, Mr. Mohamed served in the Sudan Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1987 to 1989. While Ambassador and Deputy Head of Mission at Sudan's Embassy in Ethiopia (1990-1995), he handled a wide range of duties, including bilateral relations with Ethiopia, conflict resolution matters and economic cooperation with the Organization of African Unity. He also worked with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. During the 1990's, he was sent as a presidential envoy to Somalia (1994), and as a Special Envoy to Afghanistan in May 2003.
In 1995, he returned to Sudan and served as Director of the Africa Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1997. He was also Director of Technical and Economic Cooperation (1997-1999).
He is a lecturer and author of many journal articles, and served as Dean of the African and Arab Group of Ambassadors and High Commissioners accredited to India.
Mr. Mohamad received his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Khartoum in Sudan (1975) and his master's degree in international relations from Ohio University, U.S. (1978). He was declared a Doctorate Awardee in 2005 for research entitled IGAD-SAARC: A Comparative Study in Regional Cooperation and Integration.