The Cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government
Deputy Prime Minister Barwari
Barham Salih, Prime Minister of the KRG, leads Kurdistan Regional Government Cabinet, which emphasizes progress in the areas of education, health, housing, income development and roads. The current Cabinet has 19 ministries, a reduction from 27 ministries in the previous Cabinet. The ministers were ratified by the Kurdistan Parliament and took their oaths of office in the presence of Masoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, former Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, parliament members, Iraqi federal government officials and foreign diplomats.
The Cabinet consists of members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Kurdistan Islamic Movement, Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Council and Turkmen parties. The Ministers reflect the diverse ethnic and religious
Head of Foreign Ministry Bakir
traditions in the Region, with the Christian, Muslim and Yazidi faiths all represented.
Ministers appointed to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s sixth cabinet on 28 October 2009 are listed alphabetically by Ministry. View the Ministers’ profiles by clicking on their names.
Prime Minister
Barham Salih
Deputy Prime Minister
Azad Barwari
Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources
Jamil Sleiman Haider
Minister of Culture and Youth
Kawa Mahmoud Shakir
Minister of Education
Safeen Mohsin Dizayee
Minister of Electricity
Yasin Sheikh Abu Bakir Muhammad Mawati
Minister of Endowment & Religious Affairs
Kamil Ali Aziz
Minister of Finance & the Economy
Bayiz Saeed Mohammad Talabani
Minister of Health
Taher Abdullah Hussein Hawrami
Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research
Dlawer A.A. Ala’Aldeen
Minister of Housing and Reconstruction
Kamaran Ahmed Abdullah
Minister of Justice
Raouf Rashid Abdulrahman
Minister for the Interior
Karim Sinjari (Abdul Karim Sultan Sinjari)
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs
Ms Asos Najib Abdullah
Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs
Majid Hamad Amin Jamil
Minister of Municipalities and Tourism
Samir Abdullah Mustafa
Minister of Natural Resources
Abdullah Abdulrahman Abdullah (Ashti Hawrami)
Minister of Peshmerga Affairs
Jafar Mustafa Ali
Minister of Planning
Ali Sindi
Minister of Trade and Industry
Sinan Abdulkhalq Ahmed Chalabi
Minister of Transport and Communications
Anwar Jabali Sabo
Other senior officials with ministerial rank
President, Divan of the Council of Ministers
Nouri Othman
Secretary of the Cabinet
Mohammad Qaradaghi
Head of the Department of Foreign Relations
Falah Mustafa Bakir
Chairman of the Investment Board
Herish Muharam
