Marja-Liisa Kiljunen is a Finnish diplomat. She has been Finnish Ambassador to Lithuania and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.
Prior to that, she served as a circulating ambassador from Helsinki in 2004 to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and from 2004 to 2005 to Mongolia. She has served as in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1983.
Kiljunen has worked in Finland at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation Department and East Department and has served in the Finnish Embassy in Nairobi.Kiljunen has also worked at the University of Helsinki, at the UN University's Wider-Institute and at the headquarters of UNICEF in New York and at the Finnish UN Association and at the Social Democratic Party's Women organization as secretary.
Amb. Ismail Sheikh Hassan or Ismail Sheikh Hassan Nuriye also referred to as His Excelleny H.E Mohamed Sheikh (, ),was born and had studied in Dire Dawa eastern part of Ethiopia. He had studied in Koranic school, then studied French at the Alliance Française. Later, he was teaching in this French school. As a son of Dire Dawa he had the ability of speaking several local and international languages among which Amharic, Somali, Arabic, French, English… In the late fifties he went to the capital city Addis Ababa. He started working at the special cabinet of Emperor Haile Selassie. The Emperor granted him the noble title of “Kegn Azmatch” for his appreciated work for the nation. In the early seventies he was sent to Israel for further studies. In the aftermath of these studies he was nominated as “Charge d’Affaire” to Sudan. In the early eighties he was nominated as ambassador to Libya. As a prominent ambassador for Ethiopia, Ismail Sheikh Hassan was 1 of the 3 ambassadorial brothers from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia, all ethnic Somalis, the other 2 brothers were Mohamed Sheikh Hassan and Aden Sheikh Hassan. All from the same prominent family who were one of the most interesting in the Horn of Africa.The first time in history 3 Somali brothers managed to become ambassadors in 3 neighbouring countries. Ambassador Ismail Sheikh Hassan have six children. Two girls and four boys. His elder son, Fouad Ismaël Frédéric had studied in the French School of Addis Ababa, then in Sorbonne University where he studied Political Science. Following the footsteps of his father he had a career as an international civil servant in several international NGO, the UN, the Eu and the African Development Bank where he finished his career as a diplomat and the Director of Ethics.
Sayyid Mohammad Hashemi () is an Iranian businessman and former intelligence officer. He was one of "the core group of leaders" of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line involved in the Iran Hostage Crisis, the first deputy of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security for some years. From 2003 to 2004, when the venture went bankrupt, he was a developer of a proposed vacation resort on the Caspian Sea called Cham Paradise. He is the husband of Masoumeh Ebtekar, another well-known Iranian and former spokesperson for the hostage takers.
Rahmatollah Hafezi () is an Iranian conservative politician who currently serves as a member of the City Council of Tehran and president of its commission of health, environment, and city services.
He previously held office as the vice minister of health for development & resource management between September 2005 and January 2010, as well as head of Social Security Organization.
Hafezi, who entered the council in 2013 with Front of Islamic Revolution Stability support, in August 2016 openly exonerated himself from the party and said that he is non-partisan.