Nada al-Nashif

Nada al-Nashif (Arabic: ندى الناشف, romanized: Nadā an-Nāšif) is a Jordanian public servant who has been appointed as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights from January 2020.

[4] Al-Nashif began her UN career at United Nations Development Programme, where she worked from 1991 to 2006.

[5] She was Assistant Director-General/Regional Director of the International Labour Organization's Regional Office for Arab States from 2007 to 2014.

[6] She was seriously injured in the 2003 Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, which killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100, including human rights lawyer and political activist, Amin Mekki Medani.

[9] Al-Nashif serves on the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University and Taawon, a human development NGO.