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Syed Haider Shah is serving as Ambassador of Pakistan to the Netherlands since March 2025 and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague.

Earlier, Mr. Shah served as the Additional Secretary (United Nations & Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) from November 2022 till February 2025, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad.

From November 2020 to October 2022, Mr. Shah served as Ambassador of Pakistan to Nepal.

From 2016-2020, Mr. Shah served as Deputy Head of Mission including as Acting High Commissioner in New Delhi (April 2019 to October 2020).

Mr. Shah has worked extensively on UN, legal and counter-terrorism issues as well as Afghanistan and South Asia.

From July 2013 to April 2014, Mr. Shah served as Director (Afghanistan). He had previously served as Director (United Nations) from 2006-2008.

From 2008-2013, Mr. Shah served as Legal Officer at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), New York, a special political mission created in 2004 by the UN Security Council dealing with, inter alia, facilitation of counter-terrorism technical assistance, and legal and human rights issues in the context of counter-terrorism.

Mr. Shah served at the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN, New York from 2002-2006, covering the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly. He has participated in the negotiations of a number of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.

Earlier in his career (1998-1999) & (2000-2002), Mr. Shah also served at the headquarters as Section Officer dealing with UN, Afghanistan, South Asia and as Staff Officer to Foreign Secretary and Foreign Minister.

Mr. Shah has attended a number of international conferences in different parts of the world. As a national delegate, he attended General Assembly Sessions from 2002-2008 & 2023-2024 and was involved in the negotiations of different international treaties and conventions.

Mr. Shah received LL.M (1998) from Harvard Law School and LL.B (1993) from Khyber Law College, Peshawar University. He also received a post graduate diploma in International Law (ILOD) (2000) from the Institute of Social Studies (Erasmus University), The Hague.

Mr. Shah has co-authored a paper on the ‘The Legislative Powers of United Nations Security Council’ published in ‘Towards World Constitutionalism’, Martinus Nijhoff, 2005.

Mr. Shah is married and has three children.

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