Nechervan Idris Barzani

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Nechervan Idris Barzani
1st Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region
Incumbent
Assumed office March 1, 2006
Succeeded by	Incumbent

Born	September 21, 1966 Barzan, Iraqi Kurdistan Region
Political party	Kurdistan Democratic Party
Religion	Sunni Muslim

Nechervan Idris Barzani (Kurdish: نێچیرڤان بارزانی, or Kurdish: Nêçîrvan Îdrîs Barzanî) (born September 21, 1966) has been the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government since March 2006.

He is a grandson of KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) founder Mustafa Barzani and nephew of the current Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani and was born in 1966 in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1974, his family were forced into exile in Iran. He often accompanied his late father, Idris Barzani, on official visits to Middle Eastern and European countries, a foreshadowing of his future political career. In 1984, he enrolled at the University of Tehran to study political science, but withdrew three years later following the sudden death of his father and took up an active role in Kurdish politics, working in KDP youth organizations.

Barzani was elected to the KDP central committee at its 10th Congress in 1989 and re-elected at the 11th Congress in 1993, when he assumed a position on the political bureau. After the 1991 Gulf War, he participated in the negotiations with the Iraqi government. In 1996, he was appointed deputy prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil, and in 1999 became prime minister. Married with 3 children, his wife is Mr. Masud Barzani's daughter (Nabila Barzani)