Ali Abd al-Amir Allawi

Ali Abd al-Amir Allawi (2008)

Ali Abd al-Amir Allawi ( Arabic علي عبد الأمير علاوي, DMG ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Amīr ʿAllāwī ) (* 1947 in Baghdad ) is the former Defense and Finance Minister of Iraq .

Life

During the time of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein Allawi was in London in exile . He studied engineering and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University . He later worked as an advisor to the World Bank .

In 2002, the document The Declaration of Iraqi Shia , which he helped to create, was published. This document, which had been signed by many Shiite exiles, called for the establishment of a constitutional , parliamentary system in Iraq; however, the need to preserve Iraq's Islamic cultural identity was stressed.

In September 2003 he became Minister of Commerce for the Iraqi Government Council . During this time he criticized the US policy of radically liberalizing the Iraqi economy. Allawi said that after Iraq suffered from many negative economic theories in the past, including the theory of socialism , the Iraqi economy is now suffering from free market fundamentalism .

In April 2004 he was appointed the first defense minister in the now new Iraqi interim government. After the elections on January 30, 2005, Allawi was elected Minister of Finance for the Iraqi government . In 2006, Bayan Baqir Sulagh replaced him .

He is an American citizen .

Ali Abd al-Amir Allawi is the cousin of the former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi , his uncle is the former Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi .

Fonts

• Faisal I of Iraq . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-12732-4