Fareed Yasseen

Fareed Yasseen trained as a physicist and worked in research before moving into political advocacy, international institutions, and diplomacy. His career included plasma physics research in Lausanne and at MIT and work on information systems at the United Nations climate secretariat. ^{1, 2}

He joined Iraq’s Foreign Ministry in 2004, led its policy planning department, and advised Deputy President Adil Abd al-Mahdi. After serving as ambassador to France, he took up the Washington embassy in November 2016 and remained until 2022. His work also included participation in the teams negotiating the 2008 agreements with the United States. ^{1, 2}