Omar Saif Ghobash

Omar Ghobash UAE Ambassador to the Holy See since 2022. Prior to this he was Ambassador to France (2017–2018) and to Russia (2008–2017), concurrently accredited to Ukraine (2009–2012). In 2017 he published a book tackling the problems of Islamic extremism amongst young Muslims — *Letters to a Young Muslim*. He is an established voice on culture, ethics, and the Islamic intellectual tradition. His current intellectual work concerns Islamic public reason — the question of how Islamic legal and ethical reasoning can be conducted in a form that is publicly contestable, replicable, and open to scrutiny. He is a Trustee of the American University of Sharjah and Chair of the Resource Development Committee. He studied Law at Balliol College, Oxford (1989–1992) and Mathematics at the University of London (2004–2007).