Mahdi al-Hafez

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Mahdi Ahmed al-Hafez was Minister of Planning in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government. A Shia Muslim, al-Hafez was the Iraqi representative to the United Nations from 1978 to 1980; afterwards, he headed the Arab Economic Research Association in Cairo. He is associated with the Iraqi Independent Democrats.

He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 as part of the secular Iraqi National List. In May 2007 he announced he was withdrawing from the list to sit as an independent.[1]

[edit] References

  1. BBC News (2003-09-01). Iraq's post-war cabinet. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
  2. BBC News (2004-06-01). Interim Iraqi government. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
  1. ^ Iraqi MP withdraws from ِAllawi's INL, now independent, Voices of Iraq, 2007-05-30, accessed on 2007-07-04
Preceded by
Coalition Provisional Authority		 Minister of Planning
September 2003–May 2005		 Succeeded by
Barham Salih


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