OMAR ABDUL HAMID ADEEL, Diplomat, Official. Resident Representative, Iraq, United Nations Development Program. Grand Cross, Order of Saint Silvestro, Holy See; Grand Officer, Order of Emperor Menelik II, Ethiopia; Grand Official, Order of Merit, Italy; La Cruz de Eloy Alfaro, Panama; Grand Cross, El Condor de los Andes, Bolivia; Grand Cross, National Order of Merit, Paraguay.
Education
University of London, Bachelor of Laws, Diploma International Affairs. Gray’s Inn, London, Barrister-at-Law. Hendon Police College, New Scotland Yard, London, Diploma Theory & Practice of Criminal Investigation.
Spoken languages: Arabic, English.
Career
Resident Representative, Iraq, United Nations Development Program since 1972. Spec Consultant to the Administrator, United Nations Development Program, New York, 1971-1972. Resident Representative, Iraq, 1966-1971.
Special Representative of the Secretary General on the Question of Aden, 1966. Consultant to the Secretary General on NonSelf Government Territory, 1965-1966. United Nations Representative for Supervision of Elections in Cook Islands, Chairman, First Committee, United Nations General Assembly, 1965.
Member, United Nations Sub Committee on Situation in Angola, 1961 -1964. Member, Secretary General Advisory Committee on the Congo, 1960-1964. Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Sudan, New York & Consul General, New York, 5965.
Ambassador to Italy & Minister to Austria & Albania, 5659. Officer, Sudan Police Force, 1954-1956. Various positions, Sudan Government Service, 1942-1947.