Spouse Dina Mohammad Khalifeh Father Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid Religion Sunni Islam | Dynasty Hashemite Mother Majda Ra'ad House Hashemites | |
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Born 11 June 1965 (age 51)
Amman, Jordan ( 1965-06-11 ) Issue Princess Shirin
Prince Rakan
Prince Jafar Children Princess Shirin, Prince Rakan, Prince Jafar Parents Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid, Majda Ra'ad Grandparents Prince Zeid bin Hussein, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid Great-grandparents Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Adila Khanmun | ||
HRH Prince Mired Bin Ra'ad Bin Zeid (Arabic: الامير : مرعد بن رعد بن زيد ) is the second son of Ra'ad bin Zeid, head of the royal houses of Iraq and Syria.
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Early life
Mired bin Ra'ad (born June 11, 1965), is the second son of Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid, Lord Chamberlain of Jordan, and his Swedish-born wife Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind, subsequently known as Majda Ra'ad.
Education
Ra'ad studied at Reed's School in England and at the Hun School of Princeton, New Jersey, graduating in 1983. He then graduated from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts in 1987. He attended to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and graduated in 1990. He then returned to Tufts University and studied at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and graduated in 1995. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a masters in philosophy and historical studies in 1988.
Career
A Royal Decree issued on April 21, 2014, appointed Prince Mired as Head of the Higher Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities (succeeding Prince Ra'ad bin Zaid Chief Chamberlain). As such, he has publicly addressed Jordan’s obligations towards persons with disabilities according to its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He is also Chairman of the National Commission for Demining and Rehabilitation of Jordan. As Head of the Hashemite military patients, he also served as Vice President of the Supreme Council for the Affairs of Disabled Persons.
In 2008, Prince Mired presided over the Eight Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, or Ottawa Treaty, which took place in the Dead Sea. Prince Mired has continued his work against landmines, as Special Envoy of the Convention promoting a universal ban of these weapons around the world. Among other countries, he has visited Laos and the United States (2010), China (2013), and South Korea (2011), to promote the international treaty.
Personal life
In 1992, Mired bin Ra'ad married Dina Mohammad Khalifeh (later title, Princess Dina Mired) with whom they have three children, Princess Shirin bint Mired, Prince Rakan bin Mired and Prince Jafar bin Mired. Princess Dina Mired is a former Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, and continues to be actively engaged in efforts in the field of cancer control in the developing world.