H.E. Selma Malika Haddadi (Algeria) is career diplomat and legal expert. She is the former Ambassador of Algeria to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa where she served from 2024. From 2023 to 2024, she served as the Director General of Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad. 2019- 2023, H.E. Haddadi was the plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Ambassador of the Republic of Algeria to Kenya. She also served in a similar position as the plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Ambassador of the Republic of Algeria to South Sudan.
Prior to that, H.E. Haddadi was the Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Algeria to Ethiopia and the African Union from 2015 to 2019. She also served at Deputy Director for Social Development, General Directorate for Political Affairs and International Security.
For one year from 2012, she was the Head of the Algerian office for Refugees and Stateless Persons, General Directorate for Legal and Consular Affairs in Algeria. In the earlier years, she served as the Counsellor, Head of Political Section, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations in Geneva.
H.E. Haddadi was sworn in as a lawyer and member of the Algiers Bar Association in 2002. She has Master of Art in Public and Private International Law from the Peace and Development Law Institute, Law School, Nice- Sophia Antipolis University. She also has a Master’s Degree in Private Law from the Law School, Nantes University. She is 47 years old.
