Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein
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Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein is Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was an official candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Prince Zeid has been Jordan's ambassador to the body since 2000 and was previously Deputy Permanent Representative since 1996. In September 2002 he was elected the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court.
At 42 he was the youngest candidate running for the position of Secretary-General.
In the straw poll of Security Council members held on September 28, 2006, Prince Zeid received 3 countries vote to encourage his candidacy, 6 to "discourage" while 6 expressed no opinion.
