Her Excellency Ambassador Thilmeeza Hussain
Her Excellency Thilmeeza Hussain is the Special Envoy of the President of the General Assembly. She is the Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations, concurrent Ambassador of the Maldives to the United States and non-resident High Commissioner to Canada, posts she assumed in 2019.
Prior to her appointments she was an Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at Ramapo College in New Jersey teaching at the School of Social Sciences and Human Services.
In 2009, she was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of the Maldives to the United Nations, a post she resigned in 2012. During her tenure as the Deputy Permanent Representative she held the Climate Change and Sustainable Development portfolios. She was a lead negotiator for Maldives at Rio+20 and was also on the UNFCCC negotiation team, co-chaired the Sustainable Development Working Group for the Alliance of Small Island States and facilitated and coordinated several UN General Assembly resolutions.
Ambassador Hussain has also served as Minister of State for Home Affairs (North Province).
In addition to her formal work, Ambassador Hussain has a kinship for doing non-profit work for social good. The main areas of her work include gender and climate justice where she both founded and worked closely with a number of civil society organizations. For 2018-2019 she was also an Aspen New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Ambassador Hussain holds a Master of Science in Business Management from Colorado Technical University in the United States and Bachelor of Commerce from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.
Ambassador Hussain is married to Mohamed Shaheen, and they have a nine-year-old son.
