Hikmat Al-Saeed has been the director of the office of the permanent mission of Saudi Arabia to the UN since 2012.
Al-Saeed gained a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from King Saud University in 2009, and completed a graduate program in UN and Security Council studies at Columbia University, New York, in 2012.
In 2008, he was a member of the student advisory board of the faculty of law and political science at King Saud University, where he was also president of the political science club and member of the Saudi Association for Political Science.
Al-Saeed joined the permanent mission of Saudi Arabia to the UN in January 2012 as a third secretary diplomat and became a second secretary in November 2016.
Before taking on his current role, Al-Saeed was an attache at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from August 2010 to January 2012, and worked as an editor and journalist at Al-Jazirah newspaper from April 2009 to January 2012.
Recently, Al-Saeed participated in an Eid reception party organized by Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN, in honor of representatives of Arab and Islamic countries accredited to the UN.
