Marwan Toubassi

Ambassador Marwan Emile Toubassi was born in Jerusalem in  1959, he received his secondary school degree from Friends  School in Ramallah in 1977 and then received his BBA in  Economics in 1983 and his Masters in International Studies in  2004 from Birzeit University and then a Seminar Diploma  from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of  Government in 2005.  While he started his career as a Commercial manager in several Palestinian  Investment and trading Companies, he held the position of the President of the  Arab Christian Orthodox Council in Palestine from 1998 – 2006, and a member of  executive boards in different NGOs and Social institutions.   In 2000 he was appointed Director General at the Ministry of Waqf and Religious  Affairs and in 2003 was promoted to Assistant Deputy Minister for Christian  Affairs in the same Ministry.   In 2006 H.E. was appointed as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Tourism and  Antiquities and 4 years later in 2010 he was appointed Governor of Tubas and the  Northern Valleys Governorate.  In the summer of 2013 President of the State of Palestine H. E. Mahmoud Abbas  appointed him Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Hellenic Republic and  in August 2016 he was appointed as Dean of the Arab Ambassadors Corps in  Greece.