Amb. Umar Hadi is a career diplomat with 26 years of service. he served as Consul General of the
Republic of Indonesia in Los Angeles (2014-2017). Before that, he served as Director for West
Europe Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-2014), Director of Public Diplomacy (2005-
2009), Deputy Director at the Office of the Foreign Minister (2001-2005), and officer at an ad-hoc
office for the Chairmanship of Indonesia in the Non-Aligned Movement (1992-1995). His overseas
posts include Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indonesian Embassy in
the Hague, the Netherlands (2009-2012) and Second Secretary at the Indonesian Permanent
Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland (1996-
2001). He has also been involved in numerous negotiations and international conferences.
Umar Hadi sits on the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Peace and Democracy, the
implementing agency of the Bali Democracy Forum, since its inception in 2008. He also organized
a series of meetings of the Global Inter-Media Dialogue, an Indonesia-Norway joint initiative to
promote intercultural understanding. He initiated groundbreaking collaborative projects between
the Foreign Ministry and civil society organizations, among others in establishing the International
Conference of Islamic Scholars and the Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue for Interfaith Cooperation.