Everything about Zeid Ra Ad Zeid Al-hussein totally explained
Prince
Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein (born
26 January 1964) is
Jordan's Permanent
Representative to the
United Nations and was an official candidate to succeed
Kofi Annan as
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Prince Zeid was born in
Amman, the eldest son of Prince
Ra'ad bin Zeid, the head of the Royal House of
Iraq and
pretender to the Iraqi throne. He was educated at
Reed's School,
Surrey before gaining a
B.A. in
1987 from the
Johns Hopkins University, and a
Ph.D. from
Christ's College, Cambridge in
1993.
Prince Zeid has been Jordan's ambassador to the body since 2000 and was previously Deputy Permanent Representative since 1996. In September 2002 he was elected the first president of the governing body of the
International Criminal Court. He served in this position until November 2005, when he was succeeded by
Bruno Stagno Ugarte of
Costa Rica.
At 42 he was the youngest candidate running for the position of Secretary-General.
In the straw poll of
Security Council members held on September 28, 2006, Prince Zeid received 3 countries' votes to encourage his candidacy, 6 to "discourage" while 6 expressed no opinion.
He is now Jordan's ambassador to the United States.
Prince Zied was married on the
5 July 2000 at
Amman to Sarah Butler (born
1972), they've two children.
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