Barham Salih

Barham Ahmad Salih (Kurdish: بئرﻫئم أحمد صالح ;Arabic: برهم أحمد صالح) born 1960) is a Kurdish politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in December 2005 as part of the Kurdistani Alliance list. Salih also chairs a committee on oil and energy policy [http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=160617&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=29228] .

After leaving Iraq in 1979 he received a BSc in civil and structural engineering at Cardiff University and an MSc in statistics and computer modelling at Liverpool University and finally received his Ph. D in oceanography. While working as an engineering consultant, he served as spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in London and later in Washington.

Political career

*The Prime Minister of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan region of Iraqi Kurdistan (January 21, 2001 - July 4, 2004) [http://rulers.org/ruli.html#iraq]
*The Deputy Prime Minister of the Iraqi Interim Government
*Minister for Planning and Coordination in the Iraqi Transitional Government
*Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Nouri al-Maliki

References

*cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3766401.stm|author=BBC News|year=2004-06-01|title=Interim Iraqi government|accessdate=2006-02-24
*cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4493999.stm|title=New Iraqi government members|accessdate=2006-02-24|author=BBC News|year=2005-05-08