Members of the Iraqi cabinet

The interim government of Iraq from 2003-06

This reference file lists the ministers of the interim Iraqi cabinet since its creation on 1 September 2003. Brief biographies are also included, together with links to more detailed overviews of the political parties with which the ministers are associated (if any). Some high level non-cabinet positions are also included in the table: these are listed under the appropriate ministry, and are placed in brackets. The CPA senior advisers for each ministry in the period prior to 30 June 2004 are listed separately.

The first cabinet was dissolved on 1 June 2004, as part of the creation of an interim government. The second cabinet was created in April 2005, with the creation of a transitional government. The third cabinet, after the national elections of December 2005, was formed in May 2006.

Please note that this file is incomplete, and contains a ? when the status of a particular individual is not known. It may also contain inaccuracies, as the information contained here is derived largely from secondary sources. If errors are apparent, please see the contact details on the index page.

Members of the Iraqi Government, as of 12 June 2006

Position	Sept 2003 - Jun 04	Jun 2004 - Apr 05	Apr 05 - May 06	May 06 -	Party alignment?	Further notes
President			Jalal Talabani	(continued)	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	b.1933, Kirkuk province; trained in law at Baghdad University, where he became a founding member and leader of the KDP-affiliated Kurdistan Students Union. Later served as a central committee member of the KDP; but became a leading member of a separate faction within the KDP ("KDP-Political Bureau") from the mid-1960s, led by Ibrahim Ahmad. Although this group was officially dissolved in 1970, members of it led by Talabani, went on to form the PUK in 1975. Official biography here; interviews of 2000 and Dec 2001. Was selected as President on 5Apr05.
President		Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawir			Iraqiyyun	b. Mosul, 1960, a Sunni Arab, trained as a civil engineer at Georgetown University in Washington. Was vice-president of Hicap Technology Co., a telecom company, in Saudi Arabia (where he has lived for the past 15 years), until June 2003. Shaykh Muhsin al-Yawir, his uncle, is head of the Shammar tribe. Former member of the Governing Council. Was strongly critical of US military operations in Falluja in April 2004, referring to them as "genocide" and threatening to resign. Was president of the Governing Council from mid-May 2004, and was selected by the Governing Council to retain this role on 31 May. His brother Faris Mashal al-Yawir was appointed as Iraq's ambassador to the UAE on 19 July 2004. The party list he formed for the January 2005 elections, Iraqiyyun (255), won 150,680 votes and thus 5 seats. Selected as vice-president on 5 Apr05.
Deputy President (1)				Tariq al-Hashimi	Iraqi Islamic Party	b. Baghdad, 1942, from the Mushahada tribe. From a royalist background: grandson of an Ottoman general, nephew of King Ghazi's tutor. Trained as a military officer, and in economics (BA in 1969, MA in 1978 from al-Mustansiriya Uni). Worked for a shipping company from 1979. A long-standing member of the IIP, rising to become its S-G. Appointed as deputy president on 22 April 2006.
			Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawir		Iraqiyyun	see above
		Ibrahim al-Ushayqir (al-Ja'fari)			al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya	Nom de guerre is Abu Ahmad al-Ja'fari; often referred to as Ibrahim al-Ja'fari. b. Karbala, 1947, educated at Mosul University as a medical doctor (graduating in 1974), joining Da'wa in 1966. Worked with Da'wa in northern Iraq, until he left for Syria and then Iran in March 1980. Moved to London in 1989, working as a GP in Wembley. Spokesperson of al-Da'wa (formerly of London branch, now in Baghdad). Former member of the Governing Council. Won the nomination of the United Iraqi Alliance to be its candidate for prime minister on 22Feb05. His wife, a gynaecologist, and 5 children live in London. Biographies: 1,2.
Deputy President (2)			'Adl 'Abd al-Mahdi	(continued)	Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	b. Baghdad, 1942/48?. President of SCIRI. Son of a 1920s guerrilla fighter, he joined the Ba'th Party in the early 1960s, but left it in 1964. Was imprisoned for political activism and fled to France in 1969. Trained in politics and economics (in which he obtained a doctorate), initially espousing Maoism, and serving as head of the French Institute of Islamic Studies. His four children all have French nationality. Served as SCIRI's representative in Iran from 1992-96, and as the deputy member for 'Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim on the Governing Council. Was SCIRI's candidate in May04 for the position of Iraqi prime minister; served as finance minister instead (Jun 04 - Apr 05). Was SCIRI's candidate for prime minister after the Jan05 elections within negotiations of the United Iraqi Alliance until he gave way to Ja'afari on 15Feb05. Selected as deputy president on 5Apr05.
Deputy President (2)		Rowsch Shaways			Kurdistan Democratic Party	b.1947. President of the Kurdistan National Assembly from 1999-2004. Trained in engineering in Germany (to PhD level), where he headed the Kurdish student union, before returning to Iraq in 1975. A deputy PM of the Kurdish regional government from 1992, and prime minister of the KDP area from 1996-99. Appointed deputy PM in Apr 05, also serving as acting electricity minister.
Prime Minister				Nuri Kamil Muhammad Hasan al-Maliki	al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya	Deputy leader of al-Da'wa. b.1950, al-Hindiyya (Tuwarij) in Babil governorate (but near Karbala'), trained in Arabic literature at Baghdad Uni (BA) and Salah al-Din Uni in Irbil (MA). Joined al-Da'wa in 1968 (using the noms de guerre of Jawad Maliki and Abu Isra). Worked for education ministry. Fled to Iran in 1979 and then Syria in 1980 (as he refused to fight on Iran's side after the was with Iraq began in 1980). Headed al-Da'wa's office in Syria & Lebanon, and headed the 'Jihadist' current that organised the party's military operations. Edited al-Mawaqif, al-Da'wa's newspaper. Acted as the convenor of the March 1991 Beirut conference of opposition groups. After 2003, he acted as spokesman of al-Da'wa and its representative on the de-Ba'thification Commission. Deputy speaker of the interim national assembly (Jun04-Jan05), and headed the security committee in the transitional national assembly (Jan-Dec05), and acted as spokesman of the UIA. On the constitutional drafting committee. Took up prime ministerial position on 22 April 2006 after Ibrahim al-Ja'fari was unable to secure support from other political groups and the US to become prime minister after the Dec05 elections. Also served as acting interior minister until 8 June 2006.
			Ibrahim al-Ushayqir (al-Ja'fari)		al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya	see above
		Iyad 'Allawi			Iraqi National Accord	b.1945, to a prominent Shi'a merchant family (his grandfather was a negotiator in the independence talks, his father was an MP). Joined the Ba'th party when young, whilst still a prohibited movement, and trained as a doctor at Baghdad University. Had left Iraq in 1971, firstly to Beirut, and then (in 1972) to train in medicine (as a neurologist) in the UK; lived in Surrey, UK. Served as president of the Iraqi Student Union in Europe. Was later a successful businessman, with good links to Iraqi Ba'thists reportedly from his work as an intelligence official. Resigned from Ba'th Party in 1975 or 1976; badly injured in assassination attempt of Feb78. Former member of the Governing Council, and chair of its security committee. He reportedly resigned from it on 9 April 2004, over US military operations in Falluja, although other sources contradicted this: he himself indicated that he resigned from the security committee of the IGC, but not the IGC itself. Chosen to be prime minister by the IGC on 28 May 2004; resigned with selection of new government on 7 April 2005. Extensive account from Jan05 is here.
Deputy Prime Minister				Salam Zukam 'Ali al-Zuba'i	Iraqi Accord Front	b. 1959, al-Karkh (Baghdad); a Sunni Arab. BA (from Mosul) in soil science, 1982; lectured at al-Anbar Uni in 1992, but left to manage a poultry firm 1992-7. PhD (from Baghdad Uni), 2000. Headed Agricultural Engineers Union in al-Anbar, 1993-7, and headed the national union from 2004. Appointed to deputy prime ministership in May06 without previous experience as politician. Also served as acting defence minister until Jun06.
		Barham Salih		Barham Salih	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	b.1960. Prime Minister of the PUK region of northern Iraq since Feb 2001. Joined PUK in 1976; left Iraq in 1979, and became PUK spokesman in London. Trained in civil engineering from the University of Cardiff; and in statistics from Liverpool University (PhD), and was an engineering consultant in the UK. Later served as the PUK representative in Washington from 1991, and a long-standing supporter of close relations with the US. Long interview from Oct02 here; article from Dec02 here. Had special responsibility for national security affairs as deputy PM from Jun04-Apr05. Moved to position as minister of planning after, before returning to deputy PM position in May 06.
			Ahmad Chalabi		Iraqi National Congress	Left Iraq in 1958 and Amman in 1989: see full profiles from 1999, Feb02, Jul02, Aug02, Oct02, Nov02, Apr03, May03, May04. Interviews & articles: 8Apr04, 15Apr04. Also served as acting oil minister from Apr 05.
			Rowsch Shaways		Kurdistan Democratic Party	see above
			'Abd Mutlak al-Juburi		/	b.Kirkuk, 1940. Former army major-general, acting as a division commander in the Republican Guard. His son, an insurgent, died planting a explosive device.
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Hoshyar Mahmud Muhammad al-Zibari	(continued)	(continued)	(continued)	Kurdistan Democratic Party	b.1953, in Aqrah, though grew up in Mosul. Nephew of Mas'ud Barzani. Studied political science (in Jordan, 1976) and sociology (in the UK, at the University of Essex, 1979), becoming secretary-general of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe in the late 1970s. Became a member of the KDP's poliburo in 1979. Head of the KDP International Relations Bureau from 1988, based mostly in London and representing the KDP in relations with the US. A member of the INC's executive council from 1992, and its presidential council from 1999.
				Rafa' Jiyad al-'Issawi (minister of state for foreign affairs)	Iraqi Islamic Party	Former director of Falluja hospital and al-Anbar Health department. The IIP, acting through the Iraqi Accord Front (the slate it ran as part of in the December 2005 elections), sought to have him instated as deputy prime minister for security affairs in the bargaining process in early 2006, but settled for current position.
		(Sa'id Jasim al-Hayani - undersecretary for administrative duties and consulates, from mid-April 04			/	Served previously in the foreign affairs and agriculture ministries until he retired in 1988.)
		(Labib Abbawi - undersecretary for political planning, from mid-April 04			Iraqi Communist Party	Headed the foreign relations committee of the ICP from 1993 to 2000.)
		(Hamid al-Bayati - undersecretary for bilateral affairs, from mid-April 04			Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	SCIRI representative in the United Kingdom from 1992 until 2003. Interview from May03.)
		(Bassam Kubba - undersecretary for international relations, from mid-April 04			/	b.1944, Baghdad; a Shi'a Muslim. Educated in English lit (BA from Baghdad Uni) and International Relations (MA from St Johns, New York). A career diplomat from 1968. Served on the steering committee that ran the ministry after Apr03; was the ministry's most senior career diplomat. Had served as acting chief of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in New York and as Iraq's ambassador to China prior to 2003. Assassinated on 12 June 2004)
Minister of Oil				Husayn al-Shahristani	/	b.1942, Karbala'. Former nuclear chemist (PhD from Toronto Uni) who served as the chief scientific advisor to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission until 1979 and was head of the nuclear chemistry department of Baghdad Uni (1977-79). He refused to participate in weapons development, and received life sentence for passing information on Iraq's nuclear programme to "foreign parties"; imprisoned at Abu Ghrayb from 1979 before escaping and fleeing the country to Iran in 1991. Was based in London afterwards, where he served as chairman of the Iraqi Refugee Aid Council. Of Shi'a origin, and remains close to the Hawza, serving as an advisor to Ayatollah Sistani in 2003. Made prominent calls for early elections during late 2003. Resident in Karbala and Basra from April 2003. Autobiography is al-Hurub ila al-Hurriyya: Awraq min Ayyam al-mihnah fi Sujun Saddam (Flight to Freedom: notes from days of suffering in Saddam's jails: Qom, 1999). A recording of a speech from 2001 is here. Was widely reported as being nominated as a compromise candidate for the post of Iraqi prime minister on 26 May 04; he ended up declining, with the post given instead to Iyad Allawi. Served as parliamentary speaker from April 2005.
	Ibrahim Muhammad Bahr al-'Ulum		Ibrahim Muhammad Bahr al-'Ulum		/	Shi'a. b. Najaf, 1954, the eldest son of Muhammad Bahr al-'Ulum. Holds a degree from Baghdad Uni in petroleum and minerals, and a PhD in petroleum engineering, from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Worked in the Kuwaiti oil ministry 1976-82, and at the Petroleum Recovery Research Centre in New Mexico, but has been based mostly in London since 1992, where he has been a consultant to oil companies, such as Duke Engineering corp (Houston). Served as the director of Relief International UK. Was a leading member of the Iraqi Shi'a Council project, based in London and organised through al-Khoei centre. An article by him describing his return to Iraq in May03 is here; in a long interview from FT 4Sept03, he accepts the need for privatisation, and that US companies should have the priority in rehabilitating existing oil fields. There was a failed assassination attempt on him on 12Oct03.
		Thamir 'Abbas Ghadhban			/	b. Babil, 1945. Trained in petroleum engineering at University College London (BA) and Imperial College (MA). Has worked in Iraq's oil industry since 1973; was senior advisor to the ministry prior to his appointment (though served as minister in the immediate aftermath of the invasion, prior to the creation of the first cabinet). A Sunni Arab.
Minister of Finance and Banking				Baqir Sulagh Jabr al-Zubaydi	Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	b.Maysan, 1946. Also known as Bayan Jabr. A Shi'a; some sources indicate of Turkoman heritage. Trained as a civil engineer, graduating in 1969. Fled Iraq in 1982. Represented SCIRI in Damascus in the 1990s; subsequently based in Beirut. Was a founder of Nida' al-Rafidayn daily newspaper, also edited al-Adwa and headed the al-Mujahidin information centre. Served as Minister of Housing and Construction in the first cabinet, and advised 'Allawi on construction affairs; member of al-Najaf reconstruction committee. Served as interior minister in the Ja'fari government, and was heavily criticised for allowing the ministry to become a vehicle for Shi'a militias to take over police forces.
			Ali 'Abd al-Amir 'Allawi		/	b. Baghdad, 1947. Trained in civil engineering (at MIT), regional planning (at the LSE) and business administration (Harvard). A businessman, previously based in London. Organised "the Declaration of Iraqi Shi'a" with Muwafaq al-Rubiy'i (later on the Governing Council). His uncle is Ahmad al-Chalabi; cousin of Iyad 'Allawi. Has served previously as ministers for trade (Sept 03 - Jun 04) and defence (Apr - Jun 04). Appointed ambassador to the US on 19 July 2004.
		'Adl 'Abd al-Mahdi			Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	see above
	Kamil Mubdir al-Kaylani				Iraqi National Congress (?)	Sunni Arab; b. Baghdad, 1959, a businessman with a degree from Mustansariyya Uni in economics who ran a contracting firm in Baghdad. Was reportedly installed on the urging of the Iraqi National Congress.
Minister of the Interior				Jawad al-Bulani	/	b. Baghdad, 1960, though family originates from al-Amara in Diwaniyya. Was in the army's Aviation Engineering Dept until 1999. After 2003, joined al-Fadila and served on its General Secretariat. Then aligned himself with Chalabi's new Shi'ite Political Council, and ran as part of the UIA slate in January 2005. Resigned his party membership immediately prior to his appointment as interior minister on 12 June 2006.
			Baqir Sulagh Jabr al-Zubaydi		Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	see above
		Falah Hasan al-Naqib			Iraqi National Movement	b. Samarra, 1956(?). Son of Hasan Mustafa al-Naqib, a former army deputy chief-of-staff and ambassador to Sweden who defected in 1978 and head of the INM. Trained as a civil engineer in the US. Was installed as governor of Salah al-Din province in February 2004, in a controversial circumstances: 16 of the 40 members of Salah al-Din provincial council voted for him, but 11 of its members were away on pilgrimage at the time.
		('Abd al-Jabbar Yusuf Shaykhli - undersecretary)
	Samir Shakir Mahmud (8 April -1 June 2004)				Iraqi Patriotic Democratic Alliance	Member of al-Sumaidi clan; traces ancestry to Musa al-Khadhum, a nephew of the Prophet. A writer, designer and businessman originally from Haditha, but had been based in London from the 1960s to 2003, where he founded the IPDA. Appointed as interior minister on 9 April 2004. According to the Boston Globe, he planned to return to his family in the UK in June 2004, but said that after "about two months he would probably come back to seek a role for himself in a future government". Appointed ambassador to the UN on 19 July 2004.
	Nuri al-Badran (until 8 April 2004)				Iraqi National Accord	b. Basra, 1943. Former ambassador to Russia, leaving Iraq in the early 1990s to join the INA led by his brother-in-law, Iyad Allawi. Served as INA's spokesman. Of Shi'a origin. Resigned on 8 April 2004, claiming that the US was not satisfied with the performance of the interior ministry. Seems to have relocated to Amman afterwards.
Minister of Justice	Hashim 'Abd al-Rahman al-Shibli			Hashim 'Abd al-Rahman al-Shibli	National Democratic Party	b. Baghdad, 1935. Shi'a. Trained as a lawyer, and worked as general prosecutor in Kuwait for 5 years. Deputy S-G of NDP. Reported to have declined position as human rights minister in the Ja'fari government on account of its sectarian basis.
			'Abd al-Husayn Shandal		/	b. Baghdad, 1945; trained and worked as a criminal lawyer.
		Malik Duhan al-Hasan			/	b. al-Hilla, 1920, Sunni Arab. Trained as a lawyer at Baghdad Uni and in France; later became a professor at Baghdad Uni. Served twice in the monarchical parliament, and was minister of culture and information briefly in 1967. President of the Iraqi Bar Association from 2003; head of a task force on compensation for victims of the former regime. Narrowly escaped a bomb attack on 17 July 04. Full biography here.
Minister of Trade				'Abd al-Falah Hasan Hamadi al-Sudani	Hizb al-Da'wa (Iraq branch)	b. Basra, 1947. In al-Anzi branch of al-Da'wa. BA in science from Basra Uni (1970), and in biochemistry in Wales (received PhD in 1981). Active in Islamic politics in the UK from the late 1970s onwards. Served as education minister in Ja'fari government.
			'Abd al-Basit Karim Mawlud		Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	b. Irbil, 1957. Former lecturer in law at Sulaymaniyya Uni; a legal adviser to Barham Salih. Also a former leader of the peshmerga.
		Muhammad al-Jiburi			/	b. Mosul, 1949. Trained in economics at Glasgow Uni. Has worked for Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) since 1983, rising to the position of director general in May 2003.
	Ali 'Abd al-Amir 'Allawi				/	see above
Minister of Defence				'Abd al-Qadir Muhammad Jasim al-'Ubaydi	/	From Ramadi, trained as a military officer (graduated in 1969). Claims to have been critical of decision to invade Kuwait, and to having been pensioned off in 1992 in response to that. After 2003, was made chief-of-staff (2004), commander of western region (2005) and commander of Iraqi land forces.
			Sa'dun al-Dulaymi		/	b. Ramadi, 1954. Former head of the Center of Socio-psychological and Security Studies in Iraq, trained in sociology and social psychology at Baghdad Uni. Served as a security officer and police instructor before defecting in 1991. Worked in London as a researcher in Iraqi security studies. Before the invasion, he claimed that Iraqi special armed forces will vigorously oppose an invasion of Iraq (biography from 2002 here). Returned to Iraq in 2003, where he established the the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies (ICRSS), which conducted opinion polls in Iraq, and was funded by a grant from USAID/OTI, in cooperation with the CPA Governance Office and the Department of State (1,2). Of Sunni Arab origin.
		Hazim Sha'lan			/	b. 1947, Diwaniyya. Shaykh of the Ghazal tribe. Trained in economics at Baghdad Uni. Served as inspector general of the Iraqi Real Estate Bank from 1983-1985, before leaving the country. Prior to 2003, he managed a real estate firm in the United Kingdom. Appointed governor of Diwaniyya in April 2003. Was highly critical of Iranian involvement in Iraq during this time as minister. Moved to Jordan after he left the post, and was investigated for large-scale corruption in his ministerial role.
		(Babkir al-Zibari - senior military adviser, from 18 April 2004				A Sunni Kurd. Served as a general in the Iraqi army until 1973, when he left to join the Kurdish peshmerga. He reorganized the Kurdish resistance movement into a regular military force.)
		(Amr Bakr al-Hashimi - chief of staff of the Iraqi armed forces, from 18 April 2004				A Sunni Arab from Baghdad; served as a major general in the Iraqi Army until he retired in 1997. Subsequently served as a member of Baghdad city council. Was reportedly dismissed before 24 July 2004 "over allegations that they leaked sensitive intelligence information to militant groups in Iraq", according to RFE/RL)
		(Daham al-A'sal - deputy chief of staff, from 18 April 2004				A Shi'a Arab, now with the rank of Lieutenant General Was a major general under the ancien regime)
	Ali 'Abd al-Amir 'Allawi (position created on 4 April 2004)				/	see above
Minister of Education				Khudayr al-Khuza'i	Hizb al-Da'wa (Iraq branch)	b. Maysan, 1948. Holds two PhDs, in Qur'anic studies and theology, and worked as a university lecturer afterwards. Was on the constitutional drafting committee.
			'Abd al-Falah Hasan al-Sudani		Hizb al-Da'wa (Iraq branch)	see above
		Sami al-Mudhaffar			/	b. Basra, 1940. Trained at Baghdad Uni (for BSc) and Virginia Polytech (for PhD); a biochemist. Lecturer in Basra and Baghdad Unis from 1968-2000, becoming president of Baghdad University. Was made deputy education minister prior to his appointment as minister in June 2004. Survived an assassination attempt on 24Aug04.
	Ala 'Abd al-Sahib al-Alwan				/	b. Baghdad, 1949. A medical doctor, who worked as a civil servant and academic (went on to become dean of Mustansariyya university). Worked for the World Health Organisation from 1992, including as its representative to Jordan. Of Shi'a origin. Has protested (Nov03) over USAID's attempts to limit or ban Islamic religious references in school materials that they partly fund.
Minister of Electricity				Karim Wahid	/	Stood in the December 2005 elections as part of the United Iraqi Alliance, but not affiliated to any party.
			Muhsin Shlash		Free Iraqi Society Party	Trained in electrical engineering at Manchester Uni, receiving PhD in 1974. Subsequently based in Canada. Of Shi'a Arab origin.
	Ayham al-Samarra'i	(continued)			Democratic Centrist Tendency / Independent Democrats Movement	Sunni Arab; was based in Illinois, US until Mar03, where he was a manager at KCI Engineering, Downers Grove, nr Chicago, a firm for which he worked for 30 years. He was a member of the Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee established in London in Dec02; and participated in the State Department's Future of Iraq programme. Seems to be the individual named in Michael Rubin's leaked CPA memorandum from March 2004, alleged to be taking kickbacks. According to the Boston Globe, he has "kept his home in the outskirts of Chicago. The voice of the avid Bulls fan still directs callers to leave him a message on the answering machine of the engineering firm where he has taken 'an indefinite leave of absence.'" Had been involved with the DCT since 1992.
Minister of Public Works				Riyad Gharib	Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
Minister of Public Works	Nasrin Mustafa Sadiq Barwari	(continued)	(continued)		Kurdistan Democratic Party	The only woman in the first cabinet; Kurdish. b. Baghdad, 1967, the youngest member of the first cabinet. Had been imprisoned from age of 14 under the Ba'th regime. Completed a degree in architectural engineering from Baghdad in 1991; later trained at Harvard School of Government (MA in 1999). Lived in the Kurdish autonomous area from 1991, working for UNHCR as an administrator. Was a minister of reconstruction and development in the KRG from 1999. Narrowly escaped assassination near Mosul on 28Mar04. Interview here.
Minister of Health				'Ali Husayn Jarallah al-Shamari	Sadr II Movement	b.1962. Trained as a doctor at al-Kufa Uni (graduating in 1987), subsequently working in Najaf, Kadhamiyya, Jordan (2000-2) and Qatar.
			'Abd al-Muttalib Muhammad 'Ali Salih al-Rubay'i		Sadr II Movement	b. Baghdad, 1956, trained in medicine at Baghdad Uni. Pre-2003, served as Iraq's former cultural attache to Germany; an army major prior to that. Aligned with Muqtada al-Sadr on his return to Iraq.
		Ala' al-Din 'Abd al-Sahib 'Alwan			/	b. Baghdad, 1949. Trained at Alexandria medical college (Egypt) and the UK. Worked as the dean of a Baghdad medical college; also served as head of the chronic and noncontagious diseases department at the World Health Organization.
	Khodayyir Abbas				al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya	Shi'a. A medical doctor and member of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK).
Minister of Higher Education				'Abid Dhiyab al-'Ajili	Iraqi Islamic Party	A Sunni Arab.
			Sami al-Mudhaffar		/	see above
		Tahir Khalaf Jabar al-Baka'a			/	b. Dhi Qar, 1950. Trained in history at Baghdad Uni; became president of Mustansiriyya Uni in 2003.
	Ziyad 'Abd al-Razzaq Muhammad Aswad				Iraqi Islamic Party	Sunni Arab. Former head of the Dept of Petroleum Engineering at Baghdad University. Trained at Universities of Baghdad (BSc), Southern California (MSc), Oklahoma (PhD). More here.
Minister of Housing and Construction				Bayan Daza'i	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
			Jasim Muhammad Ja'far		Turkoman Islamic Union	b. Tuz Khurmatu, Salah al-Din province, 1958, of Shi'a Turkoman origin. Trained in civil engineering in Sulaymaniyya Uni (BA in 1981, MA in 1998). Deputy head of the Turkoman Islamic Union. Moved to position of minister for youth and sports in May 06.
		'Umar al-Faruq Salim al-Damluji			/	Trained as an engineer at Baghdad Uni; head of the university's civil engineering department from 2000.
	Bayan Baqir Sulagh				Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	see above
Minister of Science and Technology				Ra'd Fahmi Jahid	Iraqi Communist Party	An ICP central committee member; of Sunni Arab origin.
			Basima Yusuf Butrus			b. Irbil, 1963. An Assyrian Christian. Trained in biochemistry at Salah al-Din Uni.
	Rashad 'Umar Mandan	(continued)			/	Sunni Turkoman. b.1947, Alton Kopry in the Kirkuk governorate; holds a PhD in civil engineering from London. Left ("fled") Iraq in 1999, after serving as director of the committee for oil construction at the oil ministry. Worked for 5 years in Dubai on airport construction prior to appointment. Chosen at random to be minister from list of 50.
Minister of Culture				As'ad Kamal Muhammad Abdullah al-Hashimi	Iraqi Islamic Party	Kurd (?)
			Nuri Farhan al-Rawi		Unity Party	b.1944, trained as a police officer.
	Mufid Muhammad Jawad al-Jaza'iri	(continued)			Iraqi Communist Party	b. al-Madhatiah, 1939. Studied journalism in Prague, working on the Arabic desk for Czechoslovak radio during the 1960s-70s. Wife is Pavla Jazairiova, a Czech Radio correspondent. Returned to northern Iraq from 1982-88. Of Shi'a origin.
		(Jabar al-Jabari - undersecretary			Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	Kidnapped from al-Najaf on 4 April 2004.)
Minister of Human Rights				Wijdan Mikha'il Salim	Iraqi National Accord	Chaldean Christian, born in Taklif, 1962; female. Ran on the Iraqi National List slate, though one report places her as a member of Constitutional Monarchy Movement (which ran as a separate slate in the December 2005 elections). Had a position in committees of the Transitional National Assembly dealing with foreign relations and development of the marshes.
			Narmin 'Uthman (acting capacity)		Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	see below
		Bakhtyar 'Amin				b. Kirkuk, educated in Sweden and at the Sorbonne in Paris (PhD) in international affairs. Served as secretary-general for the Kurdish Institute in Paris; and as director of the Human Rights Coalition in Washington. Married to Safiya' al-Suhayl, who was appointed as ambassador to Egypt on 19 July 2004.
	'Abd al-Basit Turki				/	Sunni Arab, member of al-Shamr tribe. Resigned on 9 April 2004, over the US military offensive in Falluja.
Minister of Industry and Minerals				Fawzi al-Hariri	Kurdistan Democratic Party	An Assyrian member of the KDP. Was an activist in the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party (part of the Assyrian National Congress) before the assassination of his father, Franso Hariri (Francois al-Hariri), the KDP mayor of Irbil, in Feb 2001, presumably by Ansar al-Islam, when he left to join the KDP. Served as a Foreign Ministry official from 2003 until his appointment to the cabinet.
			Usama 'Abd al-Aziz al-Najafi			b. Mosul, 1956. Of Sunni Arab background. Trained as an electrical engineer.
		Hashim M. al-Hasani			Iraqi Islamic Party	b. Kirkuk, 1954, a Sunni Arab. Educated at Mosul Uni, and then at the University of Connecticut in industrial organisation (PhD), living in the USA from 1979 to 2003. According to the Boston Globe, he "still talks animatedly about the Huskies [...] For eight years, Hassani struggled to get his doctorate at the University of Connecticut's department of agriculture and resource economics, where he was known as a B student active in the Muslim students association who loved to take shopping excursions to Hartford." He was head of the American Investment and Trading Co in Los Angeles. Since 2003, he was a deputy member of the IGC and the deputy chair of its finance committee. Elected speaker of the Iraqi assembly on 3Apr05 (1,2).
	Muhammad Tawfiq Rahim				Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	Kurdish. b.1953, Sulaymaniyya. A member of the PUK's politburo and deputy speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly.
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs				Mahmud Muhammad Jawad al-Shaykh Radi	Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	b. Najaf, 1944. Trained in engineering at Baghdad Uni (BA from 1966).
			Idris Hadi		Kurdistan Democratic Party	b. Irbil, 1952. Trained in engineering at Leningrad Uni. Held various ministerial portfolios (trasnport, power, tourism, higher education, human rights) in the KRG.
		Layla 'Abd al-Latif			/	Has subsequently been accused of corruption by the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity.
	Sami Azara al-Majun				National Reform Movement	b.1932, a tribal leader from Samawa. Trained as a lawyer, working in the justice ministry in Saudi Arabia from 1971-80. A former member of the INC, he has been critical of their lack of coordination with tribal leaders. Heads the National Reform Movement. Shi'a. Lived at the Shahin hotel before it was bombed (28Jan04).
Minister of Migration and Immigration				'Abd al-Samad Rahman Sultan		b. Wasit, 1958, a Fayli Kurd. Left for Iran in 1980. Trained in medicine in Bahishti faculty of medicine, in Tehran (graduating in 1984). Ran on the UIA list.
			Suhayla 'Abd-Ja'afar al-Kinani			b. Baghdad, 1964; trained and worked as a lawyer. A Fayli (Shi'a) Kurd.
		Baskal Ishu Wardah (Pascale Isho Warda)			Assyrian Democratic Movement	b. Duhok, 1961. Trained at Lyon University, France, in human rights. President of Assyrian Women's Union in Baghdad; co-founder of the Iraqi Society for Human Rights. Was the ADM's representative in Paris.
	Muhammad Jasim Khudayyir				Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
Minister of Planning				'Ali Baban	Iraqi Islamic Party	Of Kurdish origin.
			Barham Salih		Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	see above
	Mahdi al-Hafidh	(continued)			Independent Democrats Movement	Trained in economics at Prague Uni (to PhD level). A former diplomat, representing Iraq at the UN in New York from 1978-80. Previously worked for the oil ministry. Subsequently worked for the UNCTAD (1983-96), and as the head of the Cairo-based Arab Economic Research Association (1998-2000). Has been touted as a possible prime minister by Lakhdar Brahimi in early May04. Of Shi'a origin.
Minister of Water Resources	'Abd al-Latif Jamal Rashid	(continued)	(continued)	(continued)	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	b. Sulaymaniyya, 1944. Trained in civil engineering at Liverpool Uni and Manchester Uni (PhD, 1976). Worked in irrigation and agricultural development, employed by FAO in Yemen & Saudi Arabia. Was the PUK's representative in the UK from 1978, and acted as the spokesperson of the united Kurdistan Front.
Minister of Communications				Muhammad Tawfiq 'Allawi	Iraqi National List
			Juwan Fu'ad Mas'um		Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	b.1970, the daughter of Fu'ad Mas'um (a member of PUK politburo since 1992, with responsibility for its newspaper from 1999; chair of the constitutional committee in 2003/04, and speaker of the assembly from Sept 04). Holds a PhD in communications from King's College London; also worked in the physics department of Essex Uni. Worked for the CPA as a technical adviser in communication and telecommunication, and from June 2004 at the Project and Contracting Office based in the US embassy in Baghdad.
		Mohammad 'Ali al-Hakim			/	b. Najaf, 1952. Trained at Mustansiriyya (Baghdad), Birmingham Uni (UK), and Southern California in computer science. Former senior adviser of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council to the Ministry of Planning, supervising provincial affairs; and as an ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to April 2003, was based in Cambridge, Boston, USA, where he was a network architect designing software for mobile phones at a Lexington-based company, InfoClarus. According to the Boston Globe, he still owns a home and is a registered voter in Cambridge, and was recruited by the FBI in autumn 2002 to assist with planning for Iraq.
	Haidar Jawad al-Abadi				al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya	Shi'a; has a PhD in electrical engineering. Was in repeated conflict with the CPA over the jurisdiction of his ministry, and with the CPA alleging corruption in the handing out of mobile phone licenses (Nov03). Heavily critical of US operations in Falluja in Apr04, telling the FT that the "US army is out of control ... their massive use of force is bringing the country to the precipice."
Minister of Agriculture				Ya'rub Nazim al-'Abudi	Sadr II Movement
			'Ali Husayn al-Bahadili			b. 1943. Trained in agriculture, receiving PhD in plant diseases from California U.
		Sawsan Ali Majid al-Sharifi			/	b. Baghdad, 1956. Trained in animal breeding at Baghdad and Iowa universities, returning to Iraq in 1984. Worked for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, and on Iraq's Scientific Research Council. Editor of the Iraqi Journal of Agriculture. Was deputy agriculture minister prior to her appointment as minister.
	'Abd al-Amir Abbud Rahima				National Democratic Party	Shi'a, from Basra
Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications				Karim Mahdi Salih	Sadr II Movement
			Salam Awda Falah al-Maliki		Sadr II Movement	Former deputy governor of Basra. Trained in English and business, and worked for the Southern Oil Company. Was an exponent of southern separatism in late 2004, in response to the US assault on the Sadriyyun in Najaf; also threatened to shut Basra's port and halt its oil exports at the time.
		Lu'ay Hatim Sultan al-'Aras			/	b. 1952(?). An aircraft engineer, working for Boeing. From 2003, was a director general for Iraqi airways and vice-chairman of Baghdad provincial council. Has subsequently been accused of corruption by the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity, but was out of the country so charges could not be pressed.