Parliament has approved Dr. Asim Ahmed’s appointment as the Maldives Non-Resident Ambassador to Morocco.

While President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had forwarded Dr. Asim’s appointment for the required parliamentary consideration on June 7, 53 lawmakers voted in favour at Monday’s sitting of the People’s Majlis.

The matter was reviewed by its committee on foreign relations.

Dr. Asim Ahmed is also Maldives Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, appointed in August 2020. He was approved as the country’s representative at the World Trade Organization last October.

Prior to that, Dr. Asim had been serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had previously held the post of Minister of Education, served as the President of the Local Government Authority (LGA) as well as on a number of boards, committees and high-level councils, including the National Security Council.

Asim completed his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Sociology and Politics at the University of South Pacific, Fiji, in 1989. In 1992, he attained a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK. He further completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Social Policy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2011.