Raid Jahid Fahmi (; born 1950) is an

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i politician and economist who served as Iraq's Minister of Science and Technology in the government of

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, from 2006 to 2010.

Biography

He is of

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origin born in

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. His father was a lawyer and a civil servant in the Iraqi foreign Ministry and held posts in Lebanon and Switzerland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He has spent most of his life in exile. He is a graduate of the

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and the Paris Sorbonne University and has worked as a researcher for the Industrial Bank of Kuwait, the

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. He taught and gave lectures in educational and academic institutions in France and was the

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's representative in

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. He edited the ''Al-Thaqafah al-Jadidah'' magazine. The ICP contested the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 as part of the

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coalition, and in May 2006, Raid Fahmi was appointed Minister of Science and Technology in al-Maliki's government of national unity. In August 2007, he was appointed head of the Commission on the Normalisation of the Status of

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. ICP contested the Iraqi legislative election of May 2018 as part of list Sairoon Alliance. Raid Fahmi was elected as member of the Council of Representative of Iraq (COR) and took charge of his office on September 3, 2018. Raid Fahmi announced his resignation from the Iraqi Parliament on the 27th of October 2019 in solidarity with the popular protest movement and in protest against the lack of effective action from the legislative power to put an end to the use of violence against the demonstrators by the security and other non official armed groups.

Personal life

He is married and a father of four children.

References

1951 births Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of Queen Mary University of London University of Paris alumni People from Baghdad Iraqi Communist Party politicians Science and technology ministers of Iraq Iraqi expatriates in Lebanon Iraqi expatriates in Switzerland Iraqi expatriates in France Iraqi expatriates in the United Kingdom {{iraq-politician-stub