Jalil Abbas Jilani

Jalil Abbas Jilani
Ambassador

Jilani meeting Maryland governor, Martin O'Malley
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States
Assumed office
December 2013
Nominated by Mamnoon Hussain
Preceded by Sherry Rehman
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
In office
March 2012  December 2013
Personal details
Born (1955-02-02) 2 February 1955
Multan, Pakistan
Nationality Pakistani

Jalil Abbas Jilani is a Pakistani diplomat who serves as the 22nd Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, and previously served as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan from March 2012 to December 2013.[1][2]

Born in Multan to a family known for high-profile bureaucrats, Jilani was educated as a lawyer at University of Oxford, before joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in March 1979. He served as the deputy secretary at Prime Minister’s Secretariat between 1989 and 1992, and as the deputy high commissioner to India between 1999 and 2003. He headed as the head of South Asia desk at Foreign Office between 2003 and 2007.[3][4]

In 2007, he was commissioned as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Australia and served until 2009, when he was tasked as Ambassador of Pakistan to European Union based out of Brussels.[5] He returned to Pakistan to become the country's Foreign Secretary in March 2012.[6][7][8]

References

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sherry Rehman
Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
2013current
Succeeded by
Incumbent


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