Husam Said Zomlot (Arabic: حسام سعيد زملط, born August 31, 1973) is a Palestinian diplomat, academic and economist.

[1] Before his posting to the UK, he served as head of the PLO mission to the United States[2] that was closed by President Donald Trump's administration.

"[3] Zomlot became politically active while taking his undergraduate degree at Birzeit University outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

After receiving his undergraduate degree he worked as an economist with the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, UNSCO.

[5] He received his PhD in International Political Economy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London in 2007.

[6] Before joining Birzeit as professor of public policy in 2012 he was Scholar in Residence at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2008–2010).

[8] He was appointed ambassador-at-large for the State of Palestine that same year, and also served as director of Fatah's commission for foreign relations.

[7] He became strategic adviser to President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas in 2015 before being elected to Fatah's Revolutionary Council in 2016.

[2] His tenure there was cut short after the Trump administration decided to close the PLO mission in Washington DC and subsequently recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

[citation needed] The move undermines a significant Palestinian policy that the eastern part of the city, occupied by Israel in 1967, should eventually serve as the capital of Palestine.

Zomlot nevertheless argued that a recalibration of Palestinian-US relations could have three positive outcomes: "it frees the Palestinians from the shackles of a failed 27-year-old, American-led peace process… it provides an opportunity to repeal a 1987 law designating the Palestine Liberation Organization as a terrorist organization… [it] will help redirect Palestinian attention [to] long-term engagement directly with the American people".

[1] He arrived in the middle of Britain's process of leaving the EU and in his first year-and-a-half experienced two different Conservative governments and two different opposition leaders.

"[16] In February 2024, BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark interviewed Zomlot, a politician with no links to Hamas.