| Professional Background | Human rights profile
- Member of the Commission on Human Rights, 1975-1981
- Vice-Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, 1979
- Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, 1980-1981
- Member of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1978-1982
- Vice-Chairman of the Subcommission, 1979
- Member of the Human Rights Committee (on civil and political rights), 1978-1982, 1990-1994
- Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1996-2000
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Fund for Victims of Torture, 1982-1989
- Member of the Jordanian delegation to the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, 1993
- Head of the Jordanian delegation to the Rome United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court
- Chairman of the Working Group on Crimes against humanity at the Rome International Criminal Court Conference
- Head of the Jordanian delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the Drafting and Adoption of the two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions, 1977-1980
Other activities
- First Secretary at the Jordanian mission to the United Nations, 1966-1969
- Counsellor at the Jordanian embassy in Washington, D. C., Moscow, London and Paris
- Ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, 1975-1980
- Ambassador to Ankara, 1982-1986
- Chief Editor, Jordan Times, 1988-1989
- Adviser at the Office of the Crown Prince of Jordan, 1997-1999
- Columnist and Attorney-at-Law, 1999-
- Professor, Institute of Diplomacy, Amman |
| Educational Background | - High school diploma, Friends Boys School (Quaker), Ramallah, Jordan
- B. A. (Economics), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
- J. D. (Doctor of Law), University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois
- Scholarship: National Honor Scholarship |