Minister Najla Riachi is the Minister of State for Administrative Reform since September 2021 in Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s Government. She is a career diplomat who started her work in the Foreign Service in 1982. She served as a first secretary for the embassy of Lebanon in Cairo (1983-1984) and the embassy of Lebanon in Paris (1984 -1991). She was appointed as counselor at the embassy of Lebanon to the Holy See and The Order of Malta (1992-2000), at the center of Legal Consultancy, Research and Archive at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and Emigrants (2000-2002) and she was the consul General of Lebanon in Istanbul (2002-2003). She was promoted to ambassador in 2003, was the Head of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (2003-2007), and then served as the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva from July 2007 to October 2017. Minister Riachi was the Director of the Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (2018-2020) and the Head of the minister of Foreign affairs and Emigrants’ office (September 2020- May 2021). Minister Riachi holds a bachelor’s degree in Political and Administrative sciences and a bachelor in History and geography from Saint Joseph University of Beirut