Hussein Al-Taee

Head of Regional Office, Beirut
Middle East and North Africa Unit

Beirut, Lebanon

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Hussein Al-Taee serves as the Head of Office and MENA Regional Representative for the Berghof Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon, a role he has held since 2023. He began his career in mediation and conflict resolution at the CMI–Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, where he contributed to dialogue processes across the Middle East and North Africa, and worked with peace education in his home country, Finland.

Between 2019-2023 Hussein served as an elected Member of Parliament in Finland where he was a member of the Environment Committee and the Commerce Committee as well as a deputy member of the Grand Committee and the Employment and Equality Committee. His parliamentary networks included the Finnish Parliament Group on Global Issues, the Finnish Parliament Network on Peace Mediation, the Finnish Parliament Network on Human Rights, and the Finnish Parliament Group on Combatting Poverty. In 2021, he was elected to the Municipal Council of Vantaa, the fourth largest city in Finland, and served as vice chair of the Municipal Council’s Education Board from 2021-2024.

Hussein has served on the boards of several organizations dedicated to international affairs and advised NGOs working towards increased equality, justice and inclusion in Finland. He was a a member of the board of directors of WISE (Wider Security Network, Finland), the Advisory Board for Human Rights, operating under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and the Parliamentary Committee on Crisis Management.

He holds a Master’s Degree in International Business Program (IBP) from the University of Warsaw.