Hoshyar Zebari
| Hoshyar Zebari | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq | |
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In office 8 September 2014 – 18 October 2014 Serving with Saleh al-Mutlaq and Baha Araji |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by |
Hussain al-Shahristani Rowsch Shaways |
| Succeeded by | Rowsch Shaways |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 18 October 2014 – 21 September 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office September 2003 – 11 July 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ayad Allawi Ibrahim al Jaafari Nouri al-Maliki |
| Preceded by | Naji Sabri |
| Succeeded by | Hussain al-Shahristani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1953 (age 63–64) Aqrah, Iraq |
| Nationality |
Iraqi British |
| Political party | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Essex |
| Religion | Islam (Sunni) |
Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, also simply known as Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled Hoshyar Zubari/Zibari, Kurdish: Hişyar Zêbarî; born 1953) is an Iraqi politician who formerly served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq in 2014 and also as the Finance Minister until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 until 2014.
Zebari was born to a Kurdish family in Aqrah, a city of Nineveh Governorate, Iraq and grew up in Mosul. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from The University of Jordan in 1976. He also earned a Master of Arts in Sociology of Development from the University of Essex, United Kingdom in 1980. While studying in United Kingdom, he led the Kurdish Students Society in Europe and also served as the chairman of the Overseas Student Committee from 1978 to 1980.
He joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1979. In the 1980s, he fought as a member of the Peshmerga against the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein. He went on to become a member of KDP's Central Committee as well as its Political Bureau. In 1988, he was given the charge of its foreign relations and represented the party in United States of America and United Kingdom. In 1992, he was appointed as a member of the executive committee of the Iraqi National Congress, as well as its Presidential Council in 1999.
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. He was appointed Foreign Minister of Iraq in September 2003. In July 2012, Zebari said that al-Qaeda in Iraq members went to Syria, where the militants previously received support and weapons.
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