Dr. Khaled Hassine
Dr. Khaled Hassine has over 25 years of experience in strategic policy development, normative analysis, institutional engagement and international cooperation.
He currently serves as Secretary of the Human Rights Council’s Intergovernmental Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons, mandated to elaborate a new international legally binding instrument. His work builds on earlier foundational contributions to OHCHR’s engagement on the human rights of older persons and reflects his broader experience in normative human rights standard-setting, policy development and implementation.
Previously, Dr. Hassine led OHCHR’s Right to Health Cluster, overseeing six thematic workstreams addressing critical right-to-health challenges, including attacks on health care infrastructure and personnel. He provided strategic direction to policy and legislative analysis, human rights impact assessments and budget analysis, capacity-building and technical cooperation with governments, public authorities, health institutions and civil society. Under his leadership, the Cluster integrated foresight analysis into its work, identifying emerging challenges and opportunities for transformative human rights and right-to-health interventions, including the safeguarding of the right-to-health in light of the triple planetary crisis and in conditions of digitality.
Since beginning his United Nations career with UNFPA in 1999, Dr. Hassine has served in diverse institutional and operational settings, including advisory roles in peacekeeping operations and countries in transition. His professional experience also encompasses work with research institutes and international non-governmental organizations.
Dr. Hassine has authored articles and books and has also lectured at several tertiary institutions. He holds two doctorates, summa cum laude, in law and philosophy, as well as an LL.M. and a DESS from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has received academic distinctions in recognition of his scholarly achievements.