CPA senior advisors

Senior advisors of the Coalition Provisional Authority

Ministry	Name	*Position* (senior advisor unless otherwise stated)	Dates	Background
Finance	David M. Nummy		May - June 2003	Was "senior adviser for budget policy and management in the Treasury Department's technical assistance program, as a staff member of the Senate Budget Committee, and as assistant secretary for management of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Nummy was comptroller for the senior President George H. W. Bush's presidential campaign in 1988." Source: UPI. Chairman of the Board of the Center for Individual Freedom Foundation, who provide this account of him.
	Peter McPherson	Director for Economic Policy	?-Oct 2003	former deputy US treasurer in the second Reagan administration; executive vice president of Bank of America; administrator of the USAID; president of Michigan State University.
	David R. Oliver	Director for Management and Budget	?-Aug & Sept-? 2003	former US Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (May 1998 - July 2001). From Indianapolis, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy (BSc in marine engineering), serving as Chief of Staff to the Seventh Fleet and as a two-star admiral. Has also written a book on "a practical approach to leadership" (1992). Worked from 1995 for Westinghouse Electric Systems Group in Baltimore; then as Director of Technology and Business Development for Naval Systems for Northrop Grumman Corp (who took over Westinghouse's Baltimore operations). On the board of directors of Stratos, an international telecom company. Source: BMC.
	Marek Belka	Director for Economic Policy	1 Nov 2003-	b. Lodz, Poland, 1952. Former Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (1997, 2001-2). Chairman of the Council for International Coordination (facilitating international participation in relief, recovery and development efforts in Iraq), from its creation in Jun 03 to CPA appointment. Served as Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Poland (1996-1997, 1998-2001). Senior Advisor to J.P. Morgan for Central and Eastern Europe since Nov 02; advisor and consultant to the World Bank and its International Finance Corporation from 1997-2001; advisor to the Prime Minister of Albania. Professor of Economics at the University of Lodz (Ph.D. in Economics in 1978). The "author of several books and over 100 articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, anti-inflation policy in market economies, economics of transition, particularly on microeconomic adjustment under different policy regimes in transition economies". Source: CPA press release
	George Mullinax	Senior advisor to the Central Bank	May-? 2003	Holds a position in the US Treasury Department
Foreign Affairs	David Dunford		May 2003	"retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in June of 1995 following completion of his assignment as ambassador to the sultanate of Oman. He served from 1988-92 in Saudi Arabia as deputy ambassador, including 15 months as acting ambassador. His other Foreign Service assignments have included director of Egyptian affairs in the Department of State in Washington, chief of the American Embassy Economic Section in Cairo and deputy assistant U.S. trade representative in the executive office of the president." Source: UPI.
Trade	Robin Raphel		May - Sept(?) 2003	Former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia. "She was the assistant secretary of state for South Asia under Clinton, from 1993 to 1997, and was the chief U.S. voice for building an oil pipeline across Afghanistan during the Taliban regime. The deal was later scuttled when it became clear how extreme the Taliban government was. Raphel is vice president of the National Defense University." Source: UPI. Senior vice president at the National Defense University in Washington. Quoted on the need to phase out the ration in the NYT, 13Oct03. Is now Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction at the State Department.
Oil	Philip Carroll		May-Sept 2003	former chief executive of the US division of Royal Dutch-Shell; also headed the Fluor Corp., one of six companies hired by the Defense Department before the war in a closed bid for Iraq reconstruction projects. "Under his leadership the corporation gave $483,000 in individual, political action committee and soft money contributions to political campaigns between 1999 and 2002, 57 percent of it to Republicans. Carroll retired from Fluor last year." Source: UPI.
Oil	Robert E. McKee III		Sept 2003-	former ConocoPhillips executive. Chairman of Houston-based Enventure Global Technology, a joint venture between Shell and Halliburton. Was on the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute and the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce; he is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was chairman of the US-Russia Business Council's energy committee.On the board of directors for Questar, an exploration and production company headquartered in Salt Lake City. He is a past chairman of the Southern Regional Advisory Board of the Institute of International Education, a member of the advisory committee of the University of Texas Engineering Department, and a member of the Colorado School of Mines Advisory Board. Source: gasandoil.com
Planning	Simon Elvy		May - ? 2003	British career diplomat
Health	Steve Browning		May - June 2003	Army Corps of Engineers. He "appointed Ali Shnan al-Janabi, a Baathist physician close to Saddam, as head of the ministry, sparking a demonstration. Al-Janabi subsequently resigned his position." Source: UPI.
Health	Jim K. Haveman		June - 2003
Education	Dorothy Mazaka		May - ? 2003	U.S. Agency for International Development.
Education	Williamson M. Evers			Former education policy advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign; a research fellow at the Hoover Institution which provides this extensive biography. The Washington Monthly states that he is "a school voucher advocate and Libertarian activist".
Information	Bob Reilly	brought in to oversee ministry's dissolution	May - ? 2003	former director of the Voice of America
Electricity	Pete Gibson	Head of the electricity commission	May - ? 2003	Army Corps of Engineers.
Housing and Construction	Daniel H. Hitchings		26 April - 17 June 2003	Chief of engineering and construction at the US Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh District from 1999 until posted to Iraq. After leaving Iraq, he went onto be Director for Regional Business for the Mississippi Valley Division / Mississippi River Commission, US Army Corps of Engineers. Full biog accessed via this page.
	Lee Evey		Jun - Sept 2003	Programme Manager for the Pentagon Renovation. Subsequently served as president of the Design Build Institute of America.
	Jack Rentoul		Sept 2003 - Jan 2004	US Army Corps of Engineers, previously acting as chief for Buffalo District Construction Operations Division.
	Joseph L. Morgan		Jan - Apr 2004	Had worked in rural development in Bosnia and Latin America. Worked as senior deputy advisor continuously from April 2003 until his appointment as senior advisor.
	Roliff Purrington	Senior Consultant	June 2004 - Aug 2006
Water Resources (formerly Irrigation)	Eugene Stakhiv		May 2003 - ?	U.S. Army's Institute for Water Resources. Interview (Nov03) here.
Agriculture	Trevor Flugge		May 2003	a wheat and livestock farmer; chairman of the Australian Wheat Board
	Lee Shatz, Rob Ferraris, Joe Morgan	"interim senior advisors"	June - ? 2003
	Dan Amstutz	"co-advisor" from April: confusion over these positions is detailed here.	April - 2003	Former vice-president of the US grain exporter Cargill, the largest private corp in the world, which also promotes GM technology. Also served in George Bush Sr's administration as an undersecretary of agriculture and was the US chief negotiator for the Uruguay round of the negotiations over the GATT. Source: IPS.
Industry and Minerals	Tim Carney		May - June 2003	Former U.S. Ambassador to Sudan. "Carney was quoted in Vanity Fair magazine last year criticizing the State Department and CIA's handling of Sudanese intelligence about al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden. The New York Times reported in early May Carney was among the senior advisers who would be removed." Source: UPI. Wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post (22 June) in which he was critical of the CPA's style of policy making.
Interior	Bob Gifford		May - ? 2003	"a policing expert from the U.S. Department of State who also served as an adviser in Afghanistan, according to the British newspaper The Independent". Source: UPI.
Interior	Bernard Kerrick	special advisor to the police	May - ? 2003	The former chief of police in New York City, holding this post on Sept. 11, 2001. "Most recently, Kerrick has been working in former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's consulting firm." Source: UPI.
Justice	Clint Williamson		May - 21 Jun 2003	The former director of the Justice Department at the U.N. Mission in Kosovo
	Donald F. Campbell		21 June - 2003	A judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey; also a Major General in the United States Army Reserves
	Edward Schmults		Feb (?) 2004 -	Former Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice. Source: DoD weekly briefing, 3Feb04
Higher Education & Scientific Research	Andrew Patrick Nicholas Erdmann		May - August 2003	"a member of the secretary of state's policy planning staff, where he is responsible for counter-terrorism, homeland security, and Central Asian policy. Before joining the policy planning staff, Erdmann was a historian who has taught at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D." Source: UPI. Wrote "Beating the Terrorist Challenge", Aug 2002. Extensive profile in the New Yorker 24 November 2003: 36 years old; PhD on how Americans conceived of "victory" in warfare during the twentieth century, esp under Wilson, Eisenhower (completed 2000).
Higher Education & Scientific Research	Stephen Curda	acting senior advisor	Sept - ? 2003
Culture	Pietro Cordone		May - ? 2003	Italian, 78, a retired diplomat. "Cordone was born in Egypt and spent his diplomatic career working in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria and Morocco, before being named ambassador to Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, according to Italy's ANSA news agency." Source: UPI.
Labour and Social Affairs	Karen Walsh	acting senior advisor	May -? 2003	USAID. "An ORHA source said she may be leaving the post this week." Source: UPI.
Labour and Social Affairs	Chris Spear		May - Aug 2003	Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor. Presentations on his work can be accessed via here; and here.
Religious Affairs	Andy Morrison		May - ? 2003	a former political officer at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait
Youth	Don Eberly		May - ? 2003	"with the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He is also the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Fatherhood Initiative and the director of the Civil Society Project." Source: UPI.
Defense	Walt Slocombe	brought in to oversee ministry's dissolution	May - ? 2003	former undersecretary of defense for policy during the Clinton administration. Full biography is here.
Transportation and Telecommunications	Darrell Trent		? - August - ? 2003	Chairman of the Board and CEO of Acton Development Company; Acting Secretary of Transportation under President Reagan. Worked on President Bush's first budget, Feb 2001. Affiliated to Stanford University's Hoover Institute. Has been a signatory to republican letters in 2000 lobbying for stronger support for Taiwan and for the US to withdraw from the ABM treaty.
Municipalities and Public Works (established on 9 Sept 03)	Michael Mutter		9 Sept - 2003	Senior Architectural and Physical Planning Adviser at the UK Department for International Development
Atomic Energy Commission	Michael Ayoub	brought in to oversee ministry's transition to a science and technology portfolio	May - ? 2003	State Department
Atomic Energy Commission	Tony Puckett	brought in to oversee ministry's transition to a science and technology portfolio	June 2003	Colonel; account is here.