Dr. Amal Mudallali holds a BA in Media from the Lebanese University, a Master's Degree in Political Media from Syracuse University in New York and a PhD in Political Media from the University of Maryland. She worked for the BBC News, MBC, WTN, Deutsche Welle DW-TV, CNN, Future TV, Radio Netherlands, Riyadh and Annahar Newspaper before joining PM Hariri's team.
Between 1998 and 2000, Dr. Mudallali served as the Director of the International Information Office of the Lebanese Prime Minister and his spokesperson. Between 2000 and 2005, she served as Foreign Affairs Adviser to late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Since 2005, she has served as the American Affairs Adviser of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and closely follows up on the UN-related issues, particularly the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Between 2013 and 2016 she was a senior researcher at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, where she focused on Arab relations on one hand and the US, Iran and Russia relations on the other, as well as the United Nations and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. She is currently the permanent representative of Lebanon to the United Nations.