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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Diplomatic Courier Magazine selected Jordanian young leader Ahmad Al Hendawi among its 2013 list of Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders.

The Washington-based magazine selected Al Hendawi among some of the brightest and most innovative young minds of the time in the category of Shapers, influential young leaders who help change the public discourse on an aspect of foreign policy and raise awareness on critical issues.

Hindawi, the 29-year old Jordanian youth leader was appointed in February as the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon's Envoy on youth. 

He was described by UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky as a strong youth advocate with extensive knowledge of and commitment to working on youth issues at the local, regional, and international levels.




“Mr. Al Hendawi is a strong youth advocate and brings to this position extensive knowledge of and commitment to working on youth issues at the local, regional and international level,” the UN Secretary General's spokesperson had said.




Born in 1984 in Zarqa, Al Hendawi is the youngest envoy of the world organization. He holds a Master’s degree in Advanced European and International relations, a diploma as “Policy Officer in European and International Organizations” from the Institut Européen in Nice, and a Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from the Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan.


Since December 2012, Al Hendawi worked as Team Leader at a World Bank-funded program to the Arab League on Institutional Development to Strengthen Arab Policy and Participation.


Al Hendawi is a strong youth advocate at the national, regional and international levels. He was among the cofounders of All Jordan Youth Commission and the Youth for Democracy Network at the Jordanian Commission for Democratic Culture which he headed. Internationally, he is a cofounder of the International Youth Council, based in New York, the Diplomatic Courier selection of Hidawi said.

Al Hendawi has written extensively on youth and civil society, including: “Working with Youth in the MENA Region, an Introductory Guide to NGO programming in Support of the Inclusion of Youth”, published by the Danish Youth Council and on the role of civil society in the Arab spring: A comparison between the role of social movements and NGOs in the Egyptian uprising. In addition, he is a recipient of the Youth Action Net Fellowship as a Young Social Entrepreneur by the International Youth Foundation in Washington, DC.

He also served as the Youth Policy Advisor in the Arab League in Cairo and as an officer in the Technical Secretariat of the Arab Youth and Sports Ministers Council, between 2009 and 2012.