Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 5 June 1991 – 3 February 1993
Prime Minister	Sid Ahmed Ghozali Belaid Abdessalam
Preceded by	Sid Ahmed Ghozali
Succeeded by	Redha Malek
United Nations and Arab League Envoy to Syria
In office 1 September 2012 – 31 May 2014
Secretary General	Ban Ki-moon (UN) Nabil Elaraby (AL)
Preceded by	Kofi Annan
Succeeded by	Staffan de Mistura
Personal details
Born	(1934-01-01) 1 January 1934 (age 90) El Azizia, French Algeria
Political party	National Liberation Front
Children	Salah Brahimi, Princess Rym al-Ali, Salem Brahimi
Relatives	Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan (son-in-law)
Alma mater	University of Algiers

Lakhdar Brahimi (Algerian pronunciation: [læxdˤɑr bræhiːmi]; Arabic: الأخضر الإبراهيمي; al-Akhḍar al-Ibrāhīmi; born 1 January 1934) is an Algerian United Nations diplomat who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until 14 May 2014.^[1] He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 1991 to 1993. He served as chairman of the United Nations Panel on United Nations Peace Operations in 2000. Its highly influential report "Report of the Panel on United Nations Peacekeeping" is known as "The Brahimi Report".^[2]

He is also a member of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for global peace.^[3] Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. He has also been a Member of the Global Leadership Foundation since 2008, an organization which works to promote good governance around the world. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a governing board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.^[4] He relinquished his post as UN Special Envoy to Syria on 31 May 2014.^[5]