Born (02-03-1962) in Kirkuk
Graduated from College of Engineering, Mosul University, 1989
Born in Kirkuk 1962
Graduated from College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Mosul University in 1989
Honorary Doctorate in Political Science from Cambridge International College / UK 2015
Civil Activities
Founding member of the Iraqi Organization for Human Rights in 1995
Member of the 2002 High Commission for Combating Ethnic Cleansing 2002
Honorary Member of the US-Iraqi Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2003
Founding member of Asoy Sports Club in Erbil in 1994
Member of the Iraqi Institute for Democracy in 2002
American International for Democracy (NED) in 2002
Advisor to the Right to Self-Determination Board in the Union of Kurdistan Parliamentarians (2014-2017)
Political Activities
Participated in the establishment of the PUK in 1994.
Member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) from 1996 to 2008.
Member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) in 2005-2006.
Member of the Advisory Council of the PUK in 2007 - 2009.
He held these positions within the Kurdistan Islamic Union for 15 years.
1994 - First Director of Radio Erbil.
Head of Education of Erbil Second Headquarters in 1994.
Head of Relations of Erbil Second Headquarters in 1994.
First director of Erbil United TV in 1995.
Member of the Bureau of Communications. 1995 – 1996
Deputy Head of the Organization Bureau. 1996-1999
Head of the Cultural Department of the Organization Bureau. 1999 - 2001
Head of the Bureau of Discussion and Research. 2001 - 2004.
Head of the Press Bureau. 2005 - 2007
Head of the Bureau of Professional and Mass Organizations. 2007 - 2008
He represented the PUK on these committees to stop the civil war between 1994 and 1999
Member of the Ceasefire Committee which consisted of 11 parties.
Member of the 17th party committee.
Member of the committee of 17 parties and 17 personalities.
Member of the 5th party committee.
Member of Kurdistan National Cooperation Council.
Resigned from the party on 09-09-2009.
Cultural Activities
2004-2006: Privileged editor of Al-Ofaq Al-Jadeed weekly in Arabic.
Concessionaire of Liver Corners Magazine for Children 2001 – 2006.
Author of the weekly corner (in Kurdish) in the weekly newspaper Yekgirtu 2007.
Author of the weekly column (Al-Marfa) in the weekly newspaper Al-Ofaq Al-Jadeed in Arabic 2006.
1994 - First Director of Erbil United Radio
1995 - First Director of Erbil United TV
2007 Kurdish program on United TV
He had the program Bridge on United TV in 2008.
He had the program Bridge on Zagros TV in 2015.
He had the Be Kurdi program on Kurdistan 24.
Sports Activities
In 1976, he played for Solaf Kirkuk Youth Volleyball Team.
Member of the founding committee of Aso Sports Club/Erbil in 1994.
Honorary President of Peshawar Sports Club / Kirkuk in 2003.
Organizing several sports seminars for Asow Ashti Club.
Environmental Activism
Member of the Executive Committee of the Green Kurdistan Association in 1992.
Director of Erbil Office of Green Kurdistan Association 1992 - 1994.
Preparation of the Environment and Human Program in Erbil in 1992 - 1996.
Kurdistan People, Yekgirtun, Zahmetkeshan, Rzgari and Yekgirtu
In the stations: the third headquarters of the PUK, Communist and United
Research Preparation: Air Pollution in Erbil 1992.
Translator of the book: Environmental Pollution from Arabic to Kurdish for Children 1992.
Preparation of the 2000 Environmental Periodical Publication
Author of Together to Protect the Environment 2011.
Author of the weekly environmental corner in Hawlati weekly in 2007.
Writer of Environment Corner in Gulan Weekly 2018.
Activities at the government level
First Minister of Environment of Iraq in 2003 – 2004.
Head of the Iraqi Delegation for Coordination with the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC, 2003.
Head of the Iraqi Delegation to Coordination with the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, Switzerland in 2003.
Head of the Iraqi delegation to the Arab Environment Ministers' Conference and the Japanese Ministry of Environment in Tokyo in 2004.
Managing the work of the following Iraqi ministries by proxy for a short period of time:
Ministry of Municipalities and Public Affairs
Ministry of Immigration
Ministry of Science and Technology
Ministry of Industry
Foreign official meetings
2003 in Jordan:
Jordanian Minister of Environment Alia Boran
Koichi Obata Japanese Ambassador to the Kingdom of Jordan.
Japanese Ambassador to Iraq Masa Mitsu Oki
2004 in Saudi Arabia:
Saudi Hajj Minister Ayad Madani
2003 in Switzerland:
Becca Haavisto, Director, United Nations Environment Programme
2003 in the United States:
Mrs. Gail Norton, Secretary of the Interior
Mrs. Ann Veniman, Secretary of Agriculture
James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Quality of Life Council
Paula Dobriansky, US State Department Undersecretary for Global Affairs
John Turner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Office of Oceanic Affairs, International Environment and Scientific Affairs
William Burns Assistant Secretary of State for the Office of Near Eastern Affairs
Steven Johnson, acting deputy director of the Environmental Protection Agency
Andrew Nasios, Director, US Agency for International Development
2004 in Japan:
(Jonshiro Koizumi) Prime Minister of Japan
Ms. Yoriko Koike, Minister of the Environment of Japan.
Mrs. Yoriko Kawagochi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Suchi Kato, agent of the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
Satoshi Tanaka, director of the Environmental Cooperation Office at the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
Ishino Koya, director of the International Environmental Bureau at the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
2017 in Germany :
Antonio Tajani: President of the European Parliament
Muhammad Ahmad Tayeb: The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
Gibero Mario: Italian Deputy Foreign Minister
Now
Secretary General of Kurdistan Islamic Thought Forum
Member of the High Advisory Board of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs
Director of Reform and Development Project (Bridge)[1]