Nidaa Abu Ali is a Saudi diplomat who is currently serving as the first secretary and member of the Kingdom’s permanent delegation to the United Nations in New York.
Abu Ali, who was born in 1983, has also worked as a journalist and researcher. She has written for prominent Saudi newspapers and authored four novels.
She began her journalism career with Al-Hayat, a pan-Arab newspaper that has been based in London since 1988 and launched its Saudi edition in 2005.
She has held several posts at the Kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs since joining it in 2009, and was an attache at Saudi Arabia’s mission in Singapore from 2009 until 2013.
Between 2007 and 2009, she worked as a researcher and analyst at the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism, and at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore.
She received her master’s degree in 2009 in strategic studies from the city-state’s Nanyang Technological University. Her bachelor’s degree is in management information systems from Jeddah’s Dar Al-Hekma University.
Abu Ali worked at Al Eqtisadiah newspaper between 2014 and 2016, and Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper from 2016 until the present day.
At the meeting of the UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, she stressed the Kingdom’s support for the rule of law. She said the Kingdom agreed with member states on the importance of concerted action by the international community and the need for international cooperation based on shared responsibility.
