Barham Salih

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Barham Ahmad Salih (born 1960) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who serves as a Deputy Prime Minister. 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[1].

After leaving Iraq in 1979 he received a BSc in civil and structural engineering at Cardiff University and a 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.

[edit] Positions Held

• The Prime Minister of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan region of Iraqi Kurdistan (January 21, 2001 - July 4, 2004) [2]
• 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

[edit] References

• BBC News (2004-06-01). Interim Iraqi government. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
• BBC News (2005-05-08). New Iraqi government members. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.

Preceded by none	Deputy Prime Minister for National Security June 2004 – May 2005	Succeeded by Ahmed Chalabi Ruz Nuri Shawis Abid Mutlak al-Jubouri
Preceded by Mahdi al-Hafez	Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation May 2005 – May 2006	Succeeded by Ali Baban
Preceded by Ahmed Chalabi Ruz Nuri Shawis Abid Mutlak al-Jubouri	Deputy Prime Minister for National Security May 2006 – current	Succeeded by current