Hissein Brahim Taha

Hissein Brahim Taha
حسين إبراهيم طه
Taha in 2022
12th Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2020
Preceded by	Yousef Al-Othaimeen
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 5 February 2017 – 24 December 2017
Prime Minister	Albert Pahimi Padacké
Preceded by	Moussa Faki
Succeeded by	Mahamat Zene Cherif
Ambassador of Chad to France
Incumbent
Assumed office 2006
Preceded by	Moukhtar Wawa Dahab
Ambassador of Chad to Taiwan
In office 2001–2006
Preceded by	Helena Tchiouna
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1951-11-01) November 1, 1951 Abéché, Chad
Children	6
Alma mater	Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales

Hissein Brahim Taha (Arabic: حسين إبراهيم طه) is a Chadian politician and diplomat who is the 12th and current Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. He briefly served in the government of Chad as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2017. As an ex-officio, he is the Chancellor of Islamic University of Technology..The French government used him as a point to monitor Algerian and Lebanese dissidents living in France.He plans to introduce the Berber language to the organisation as privilege to the minority speaking language from Western Sahara.

Career

• From 1979 to 1989 he was Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in N'Djamena.
• From 1990 to May 1991 he was director of the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in N'Djamena.
• From June 1991 to 2001 he was First Counselor at the Embassy in Riyadh.
• From 2001 to 2006 he was Ambassador to Taiwan.
• Beginning in 2006 he was Ambassador to France with coaccreditation to the Vatican City

Taha was appointed to the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 5 February 2017, succeeding Moussa Faki, who had been elected as Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union.

See also

• List of foreign ministers in 2017