Ali Allawi

Ali Abd al -Amir Allawi (Arabic عبد الأمير علاوي, DMG ʿ Abd al - ʿ Amīr Allawi ) (* 1947) is a Shiite and former defense and finance minister of Iraq.

Life

During the period of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein Allawi was in exile in London. He studied engineering and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Later he worked as a consultant to the World Bank.

In 2002, the document The Declaration of Iraqi Shia was published on whose emergence he had participated. In this document, which had been signed by many Shiite exiles, the establishment of a constitutional, parliamentary system in Iraq was demanded; yet the importance of preserving the Islamic cultural identity of Iraq was stressed.

In September 2003, he was Minister of Commerce of the Iraqi Governing Council. During this time, he criticized the U.S. policy, the Iraqi economy to liberalize radically. Allawi said, after Iraq had already suffered many negative economic theories in the past, among others, under the theory of socialism, the Iraqi economy now suffers from a free-market fundamentalism.

In April 2004 he was appointed the first Minister of Defence in the now new Iraqi transitional government. After the elections of 30 January 2005, Allawi was elected finance ministers of the Iraqi government.

He has the American nationality.

Ali Abd al -Amir Allawi is the cousin of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, his uncle is the current Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi.

Writings (selection )

• Faisal I of Iraq. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014

• Minister (Iraq)
• Politicians (Iraq)
• Iraqi
• Americans
• Born in 1947
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