The Islamic Conference, with more than 50 member-states, is the world’s second-largest intergovernmental body after the U.N.

President Obama on Saturday named White House lawyer Rashad Hussain a special envoy to the Muslim world.

The president announced the appointment during a video address to the seventh U.S.-Islamic World Forum meeting in Doha, Qatar. Hussain is the second special envoy named to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The group, with more than 50 member-states, is the world’s second-largest intergovernmental body after the U.N.

Obama, in his remarks, said the United States was responsibly ending the war in Iraq, forging partnerships in Afghanistan and committing to a two-state solution in Israel.

Hussain had been a deputy associate White House counsel since the start of the administration. He had focused on national security, new media, and science and technology.

Obama called him an accomplished lawyer, a close and trusted member of the White House staff and a respected member of the American Muslim community.

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