Herro Mustafa

Herro Mustafa
Coalition Provisional Authority Coordinator for Nineveh
In office May 2003 – June 2004
Preceded by	Misha'an al-Juburi
Succeeded by	Usama Yousif Kashmula (Interim Governor)
Personal details
Born	1973 Arbil, Iraq
Alma mater	Georgetown University Princeton University

Herro K. Mustafa (Kurdish: Hêro Mistefa‎; born 1973) is an American diplomat.

Mustafa's family story was the subject of the documentary film American Herro. She is multilingual and speaks English, Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and Greek.

Mustafa was born in Arbil, Iraq, in the Kurdistan region, to a Kurdish family and spent two years of her childhood in a refugee camp. Her family sought asylum in the United States in 1976. Her father was a Kurdish political activist and an opponent of the regime of Saddam Hussein. The family was taken in by Zion Lutheran Church at Minot, North Dakota in 1976.

Mustafa graduated from Minot High School in 1991 and earned her undergraduate degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1995 where she studied national security and the Middle East. She also received a master's degree in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

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