Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari
Mr. Hoshyar Zebari was born in Akre, the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 1953. He studied in Mosul and then obtained a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Jordan in 1976. Later, he earned a master's degree in Sociology and Development from the University of Essex in the UK in 1989.
He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 2004 to 2014 and also held the position of Minister of Finance until September 2016.