Abdul Ilah Khatib

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Born in 1953, Abdul Ilah Khatib (Arabic: عبد الإله الخطيب‎) is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Jordan.

Married, and the father of three children, Khatib graduated with his Masters degree in International economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Masters degree in International Communications from the American University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor's degree in political science from the School of Political Science in Athens, Greece.

In 1995, Khatib was appointed as the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, though the following year he left to become the managing director of Jordan Cement Factories Company where he remained until 1998, when he was first appointed as Foreign Minister, and remained in that position for four years.

Khatib was an overseer of Jordan's contributions to the Arab-Israeli peace talks throughout the 1990s, and was stationed at Jordan's embassy in Washington, D.C.

On December 19, 2006 he met with Chinese Foreign Affairs minister Li Zhaoxing.^[1]