Adnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi is an
IraqIraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...
i politician, tribal leader and economist who was a Minister of State in the
Iraqi Interim GovernmentThe Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...
from June 2004 to January 2005.
al-Janabi was born in
MusayyibMusayyib is a city in the Babil Province, Iraq. As of 2003, its population is 279,939. The town is home to the Musayyib Power Plant, located at...
, south of Baghdad, to a Sunni Arab family. His uncle was a senior official in the government of
Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
.
Graduating in economics from
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
and Petroleum Technology from
Loughborough UniversityLoughborough University is a campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England.It has been a university since 1966, but the institution dates back to 1909, when the then Loughborough Technical Institute began with a focus on skills and...
he worked in the government-controlled oil industry of Iraq in the 1970s and 1980s.
Adnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi is an
IraqIraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...
i politician, tribal leader and economist who was a Minister of State in the
Iraqi Interim GovernmentThe Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...
from June 2004 to January 2005.
al-Janabi was born in
MusayyibMusayyib is a city in the Babil Province, Iraq. As of 2003, its population is 279,939. The town is home to the Musayyib Power Plant, located at...
, south of Baghdad, to a Sunni Arab family. His uncle was a senior official in the government of
Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
.
Graduating in economics from
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
and Petroleum Technology from
Loughborough UniversityLoughborough University is a campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England.It has been a university since 1966, but the institution dates back to 1909, when the then Loughborough Technical Institute began with a focus on skills and...
he worked in the government-controlled oil industry of Iraq in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1996 he was elected to Iraq's
National AssemblyThe Council of Representatives of Iraq is the main elected body of representatives in Iraq. It is currently composed of 275 seats and meets in Baghdad inside the International Zone...
.
After the overthrow of the government of
Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
, al-Janabi served as
minister of stateMinister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet minister...
without portfolioA Minister without Portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry...
in the
Iraqi Interim GovernmentThe Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...
. He was also campaign manager of the
Iraqi ListThe Iraqi List is a political party list in the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005, consisting of mainly secular Shia. It is dominated by the Iraqi National Accord led by former exile and interim prime minister Iyad Allawi...
for the Iraqi legislative election of January 2005. He resigned in January 2005 in protest against being handcuffed by U.S. troops at a roadblock.
He was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in the January 2005 elections and became the deputy chairman of the Committee set up by the
Iraqi Transitional GovernmentThe Iraqi Transitional Government was the government of Iraq from May 3rd, 2005, when it replaced the Iraqi Interim Government, until May 20th, 2006, when it was replaced by the first permanent government....
to draft a permanent
constitution of Iraq-History:The current constitution was approved by a referendum that took place on 15 October 2005. The constitution was drafted in 2005 by members of the Iraqi Constitution Drafting Committee to replace the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period...
. He is not a member of the current Council of Representatives.
Al-Janabi is president of Iraq Centre For Research And Studies.
He is the chief sheikh of Al-Janabi tribe, one of the most important tribes of Iraq.
Adnan al-Janabi is the father of Salam al-Janabi, better known as
Salam PaxSalam Pax is a pseudonymous blogger from Iraq whose site "Where is Raed?" received notable media attention during the 2003 invasion of Iraq...
, whose English-language weblog "Where is Raed?" became famous at the time of the
2003 invasion of IraqThe 2003 invasion of Iraq, was led by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Denmark, Poland and Spain. Four countries participated with troops during the initial invasion phase, which lasted from March 20 to May 1...
.