Amb. Salim Mohamed Salim is a long-serving career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya. Amb. Salim most recently served as the Ambassador of Kenya to the Republic of Djibouti and in Nairobi as Director-General for Multilateral and International Affairs.

During the course of his career, he has served in different capacities at the Ministry headquarters, including as the Director, Middle East Directorate, and as Chef de Cabinet for the Principal Secretary.

In addition to serving as the Ambassador of Kenya to Djibouti, Ambassador Salim has served in different missions including, as Head of Mission and Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of Kenya in Moscow. He has also served in Kenya Embassy in Saudi Arabia-(1996-99), Kenya Embassy in France-(2001-2005) and Kenya Mission to the UN, in New York (2008-2012). In 2014, he joined the African Union where he served as the Deputy Head of the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA).

Amb. Salim has for many years been part of the Kenya negotiating team on Disarmament agenda, including negotiations on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the Cluster Munitions Convention, the Ottawa Convention on landmines and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In 2012, he was elected and served as Vice Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament) of the 67th UN General Assembly.

Amb. Salim was instrumental in soliciting bilateral support to Kenya’s bid for the Non-Permanent Seat at the UN Security Council for the period 2021-2022.

Amb. Salim holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Nairobi; a BA in Political Science & Literature from the same institution; a Postgraduate Diploma in Diplomacy from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroun; and a Diploma in Multilateral Diplomacy from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva(2000-2001). He is also a graduate of the National Defence College (NDC) of Kenya (2016-2017).

Amb. Salim is a fluent Kiswahili, English and French, and holds a Diplome de Langue Francaise-Paris (1993) and Advanced French Language diploma from the Kenya Institute of Administration (1992).