Statesmen's Forum: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi
Channel: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date: 16/04/2015

H.E. Dr. Haider Al-Abadi
Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq
 
Introduction by:
Dr. John Hamre
CSIS President and CEO
Moderated by:
Dr. Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, CSIS Middle East Program
 
H.E. Dr. Haider Al-Abadi is prime minister of the Republic of Iraq, a position he has held since September 2014. Prior to this, he served as deputy speaker of parliament, and minister of communications in the Iraqi Governing Council. He was also elected to the Iraqi parliament in 2005 and 2010 as a representative of Baghdad, and has chaired the parliament’s finance committee and committee for economy and investment. Before returning to Iraq in 2003, Dr. Al-Abadi worked as a high-tech transportation design and development consultant in the United Kingdom. Dr. Al-Abadi earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester.