Career
Tanin is a graduate of the Kabul Medical University. He worked for eleven years with the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service: as a producer from 1995 to 2001, and then as an editor until 2006, for Afghanistan and Central Asia until 2003, then for Afghanistan in the Persian/Pashto Section. Before joining the British Broadcasting Corporation, Tanin was a research fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (London School of Economics) for two years (from 1994 to 1995).
He began his career in 1980 working as a journalist in Kabul.
He was Editor-in-Chief of Akhbar-e-Haftah and Sabawoon Magazine until 1992 and served as the Vice President of the Journalist Union of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992. Tanin served as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan December 2006 until October 2015.
United Nations Tanin traveled to meetings around the world to represent his country, including the Rio +20 conference in June 2012, the 4th United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in Istanbul in June 2011, and as head of delegation in Least Developed Country (Countries) conferences in Lisbon in 2010, in Delhi in 2011, and the Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Meeting in Cuba in 2009. Tanin also served as a Vice-president of the 63rd and 65th Sessions of the General Assembly, and during the 67th session on behalf of the Asian Group, and as acting president
Tanin was appointed Vice-Chair of the Open-ended Working Group and Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on Security Council Reform during the 63rd General Assembly in 2008.
He was reappointed to chair the ongoing negotiations during the 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th and 68th sessions. In this capacity he spoke at conferences, including Brazil and Rome in 2009, the Global Governance and Security Council Reform conference also in Rome, and the Doha Forum in May 2011. On behalf of Afghanistan, Tanin became a Vice Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 2006, and chaired or attended meetings around the world.
