Haider Al-Abadi

Who is Haider Al-Abadi?

Dr Haider Al-Abadi is an Iraqi politician and spokesman for the Islamic Call Party or Islamic Dawa Party.

Al-Abadi was appointed Minister of Communications in the Iraqi Governing Council on 1 September 2003. A Shia Muslim and electronic consultant engineer by training with a PhD degree from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1980, and a BSc degree from the University of Baghdad in electrical engineering in 1975. Al-Abadi lived in exile during the time of Saddam Hussein in London.

While in exile Al-Abadi's pre-2003 positions included:

⁕DG of a small high tech vertical and horizontal transportation Design and Development firm in London,.

⁕a top London Consultant to the industry in matters relating to people movers,.

⁕Research Leader for a major modernization contract in London,.

⁕Registered a patent in London in rapid transit system,.

⁕Was awarded a Smart grant from the UK Department of Trade and Industry,.

⁕Politically, he is one of the leaders of the popular Islamic Dawa Party, the head of its political office and a spokesman for the party. He became a member of the party in 1967 and a member of its executive leadership in 1979. The Baath regime executed two of his brothers and imprisoned a third brother for ten years.