Dr. Hiba Husseini
Former Chair of the Legal Committee to Final Status Negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis
Biography
Ms. Husseini is the managing Partner the Law Firm of Husseini and Husseini. Under her management the Firm serves a large domestic and international client base on a wide range of legal matters. She practiced law in Washington, DC.
Ms. Husseini chaired the Legal Committee to Final Status Negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis. She has served as legal advisor to the peace process negotiations since 1994. Ms. Husseini participates in various meetings that seek to interject innovative thinking to the hard and complex issues involved in the peace process, especially Jerusalem. She has written widely on the peace process, the rule of law, economic development and Jerusalem. She is a political and policy advisor and analyst. Ms. Husseini has co-authored with Dr. Yossi Beilin, the Holy Land Confederation, an enabler to the two-state solution.
She serves on the boards of various educational, professional, cultural, business, and non-profit organizations. She served as the Vice Chair of the Palestine Bourse from 1998-2005. She served as a member of the International Advisory Panel of The American Law Institute and contributed in 2015 to the drafting of the Restatement of the Law Fourth the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Al Quds University and the American Board of the Middle East Partnership for Peace Fund (MEPPA) and is a fellow in the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI).
Ms. Husseini holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University (1992), MA in Political Science from the George Washington University (1986), MSc in Corporate Finance from the University of Sorbonne (2002), BA in Political Science from the University of Tennessee (1982). She speaks four languages.
