Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar Abdulla

Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar Abdulla
Bahraini Permanent Representative to the United Nations of Bahrain to United Nations
In office August 1990 – February 14, 1994
Preceded by	Karim Ebrahim Al-Shakar
Succeeded by	Jassim Mohammed Buallay
Bahraini ambassador to the United States of Bahrain to United States
In office February 14, 1994 – July 12, 2001
Preceded by	Abdul Rahman bin Fares Khalifa
Succeeded by	Khalifa Ali Khalifa
Bahraini Ambassador to Belgium of Bahrain to Belgium
In office September 16, 2008 – 2009
Succeeded by	January 19, 2012: Ahmed Mohamed Yousif Aldoseri August 20, 2015: Bahia Jawad Al-Jishi
Bahraini Ambassador to France of Bahrain to France
Incumbent
Assumed office September 9, 2015
Preceded by	Naser Al Belooshi
Personal details
Born	(1949-01-15) January 15, 1949 Manama
Alma mater	In 1974 Bachelor's degree in political science from Savitribai Phule Pune University Poona, India. In 1981 Master’s degree in political science from the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1991 Ph.D. in political science from Binghamton University.

Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar Abdulla (born 15 January 1949) is a Bahraini ambassador.

Career

Ghaffar Abdulla joined the foreign Service in 1975. From 1977 to 1979 he was employed at the Embassy in Amman, Jordan. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of Bahrain's delegation to the UN General Assembly, and took part in the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit Conferences, as well as those of the Arab League and Non-Aligned Nations. From August 1990 to 1994 he was Bahrain's Permanent Representative united at the United Nations headquarters. From 1994 to April 2001 he was Ambassador in Washington, D.C., with concurrent Diplomatic accreditation to Ottawa (Canada) from 1996 and Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 1998.

He was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (a rank comparable to deputy secretary of state) three times, on 17 April 2001, 11 November 2003, and again on 14 January 2005. He was appointed Minister of Information on 11 December 2006.

From 2008 to 2009 he was Ambassador in Brussels (Belgium) and concurrent representative to the European Union and non-resident Ambassador to Luxembourg. From 9 December 2009 to 5 February 2015 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies. From 29 June 2009 to 6 December 2014 he was an Advisor for Diplomatic Affairs to Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (Royal Decree n°57) Since September 9, 2015 he has been Bahrain's ambassador in Paris.