Thamir Ghadhban

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Thamir Ghadhban (left),prime minister Iyad Alawi (middle),Dura ‎refinery general director Dathar Al khashab (right)‎

Thamir Ghadhban is an Iraqi bureaucrat and politician, specialising in the oil industry. After the war in 2003 he became Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Oil[1], and in mid of the following year he served as Interim Oil Minister in the interim government headed by interim prime minister Iyad Allawi[2]. In 2005 he became a Parliament member and the head of one of the six committees in charge of writing chapter four: Powers of the Federal Authorities in the permanent constitution[3] [4]. In late April 2006, there was strong speculation that he would again be appointed Minister of Oil, this time by the government of Nuri al-Maliki[5]. Currently he is the chief of the prime minister's energy consultants committee[6].

Preceded by Amer Rasheed Al Obaydi	Minister of Oil March 2003–September 2003	Succeeded by Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
Preceded by Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum	Minister of Oil June 2004–May 2005	Succeeded by Ahmed Chalabi [7]