Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi (Arabic: باقر جبر الزبيدي), also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh, served as the Finance Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He served as Minister of Interior, in charge of the police, in the Iraqi Transitional Government and was Minister of Housing and Reconstruction of the Iraqi Governing Council. He is a senior member of the Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance as well as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Unlike most Shi'a of Iraq, Baqir Jabr is of mixed Turkish and Kurdish ancestry.
Born in 1946 in the Maysan Governorate [1], Jabr became a Shi'a activist while studying engineering at Baghdad University in the 1970s. He fled to Iran amid Saddam Hussein's crackdown on Shi'a political groups and joined the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He later headed SCIRI's office in Syria.
On January 3, 2006, his sister was reported kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents[2]. She was released two weeks later after ransom was paid.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi |
Minister of Finance of Iraq May 2006–December 2010 |
Succeeded by incumbent |
| Preceded by Falah Hassan al-Naqib |
Minister of Interior of Iraq April 2005–May 2006 |
Succeeded by Jawad Bulani |
| Preceded by Coalition Provisional Authority |
Minister of Housing and Reconstruction of Iraq September 2003–June 2004 |
Succeeded by Omar Farouk |