H.E. Ms Kadra Ahmed Hassan

Chair of the EB

H.E. Kadra Ahmed Hassan has been the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Djibouti to the Swiss Confederation since September 2016. 

Her Excellency also holds the position of Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the World Trade Organization, and to other specialized institutions and international organizations present in Switzerland. 

Before her appointment to this position, the Permanent Representative of Djibouti was, since August 2015, Acting Chargé d’Affaires at the Permanent Mission of Djibouti to the United Nations in New York, where she had been serving since 2007. 

H.E. Kadra Ahmed Hassan is currently the Chair of the Special Committee on Trade and Development (CTDSS) at the WTO since November 2019. She also coordinates the LDC group at the World Trade Organization, as well as chairs the coordination committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). H.E. is a member of the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) Board. Since 2021, H.E. is the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards, Human Rights Council (HRC) and since 2025,  a member of the Human Rights Council's Advisory Board on Gender Equality, as well as a senior member of AWLN Djibouti. 

H.E. Kadra Ahmed Hassan has, among other roles, served as: 

  • Chair of the 67th Trade and Development Board meeting of UNCTAD,
  • Chair of the 3rd session of the Intergovernmental Expert Group on E-commerce and the Digital Economy at UNCTAD,
  • Chair of the interactive webinar on the relevance of special and differential treatment provisions at the WTO. 

H.E. Kadra Ahmed Hassan has also been a panelist at workshops on e-commerce, on strategic direction for the 12th and 13th WTO Ministerial Conference, and during a webinar on LDC priorities at the WTO. 

H.E. Kadra Ahmed Hassan holds a Master’s degree in International Relations with a focus on International Public Policy (PSAPI) from Lyon III Jean Moulin University, obtained in 2014. She also has a Master’s in Foreign Languages and Civilizations from Michel de Montaigne University in Bordeaux, obtained in 1997, and a Master’s in Political Science from Montesquieu University in Bordeaux.