Haidar Mansour Hadi Al-Athari (born 27 July 1970), known as Haidar Hadi, is an Iraqi politician who currently serves as the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the Russian Federation.
Born in Baghdad, Iraq to a working-class family he went to school in Baghdad and moved to the United Kingdom in 1991.
He worked as an export manager for Canary Trading Company Limited from 1997 to 2000.
In 2000, he took up the role of Project Manager at Webstar PLC until 2003.
He then moved to Jordan and then back to Iraq.
He has been an Ambassador for the Iraqi government since October 2009.
Haidar had already served as an Ambassador in Minsk, Belarus for five and a half years before his return to Baghdad in late 2015.
He was the first Iraqi Ambassador to serve in Belarus since the Iraqi embassy was shut down in 2003, following the U.S.
invasion of Iraq.
After his post in Minsk, he returned to Baghdad.
During his time in Baghdad, he was part of several delegations going to countries such as Egypt and South Korea.
In December 2016, Haidar arrived in Moscow to begin his second post as Ambassador where he has been since.
Haidar has been directly involved in setting up two destinations for Iraqi Airways, Minsk and Moscow, and there are regular, scheduled flights between Baghdad and the two East European cities.
In October 2014, he was made a Distinguished Fellow at the New Westminster College in British Columbia, Canada.
In May 2018, Haidar received an Honorary Doctorate Diploma from Adyghe State University.
In November 2018, Ulyanovsk State Technical University named Haidar as an Honorary Professor.
He is married and has two children, a son aged 18 and a daughter aged 12.