In February 2009, she was appointed as State Minister for Home Affairs for the
North Province by President
Mohamed Nasheed. In November 2009, she was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, serving until March 2012. Hussain was appointed by President
Ibrahim Solih to serve as the next ambassador to the UN in 2018, succeeding
Ali Naseer Mohamed. The appointment was confirmed by the
Parliament of the Maldives in December. She presented her credentials as ambassador to
Sean Lawler,
Chief of Protocol of the Department of State, on 7 May 2019. Between her time in public office, Hussain served as an adjunct professor at the
Ramapo College of New Jersey, the co-founder of the Voice of Women (a Maldivian
NGO focusing on women's empowerment, human rights and climate change), and co-chair of the Socially and Economically Just Adaptation and Mitigation Team of the U.S.
Climate Action Network. Hussain holds a Master of Science in Business Management from the
Colorado Technical University and a Bachelors of Commerce from
Murdoch University. ==References==