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 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Palestine. Born in Baghdad, Iraq to a working-class family he went to school in Baghdad and moved to the United Kingdom in 1991. After graduating from university in the UK 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 initially and then back to Iraq. He has been an ambassador for the Iraqi government since October 2009. Haidar has already served as the ambassador to Minsk, Belarus for five and a half years and the ambassador to Moscow, Russia for three years.