Qubad Talabani
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Qubad Talabani (born 21 July 1977) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region since 2014.
Qubad, the second son of Iraqi former President Jalal Talabani, who was previously serving as the representative of Kurdistan in the US.
Early life
Talabani, the deputy prime minister, was born in 1977 and grew up in Surrey, United Kingdom, with his maternal grandparents, Ibrahim Ahmed, a novelist, poet, and a promoter of the modern intellectual Kurdish movement, and Galawejh Ahmed, who was also a novelist. His family has been involved in Kurdish politics for decades; Jalal Talabani, his father, was the President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014.
After graduating from High School, he earned a Diploma in Motor Vehicle Engineering at Carshalton College and later obtained a Master of Mechanical Engineering at the Kingston University in London.
Personal life
Talabani is the son of Jalal Talabani and Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, and he and his partner Sherri Kraham, who married in 2005 in Il Castello del Palagio, Italy, are married in Erbil. Ari and Lara are the couple's two children.
Political career
Qubad served as a special assistant to Barham Salih, then the representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (one of Iraq's most influential political parties) in Washington, D.C., and then as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq's leading Kurdish political parties. He returned to Kurdistan for one year as the PUK's Senior Foreign Affairs Officer to the coalition forces and the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003. In Iraq, he served as a liaison officer between the PUK and US military forces. He was a leading negotiator in the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), the first Iraqi constitution since Saddam Hussein's overthrowrow.
Qubad returned to the United States in April 2004 and was stationed as the PUK and Kurdistan Representative.
Qubad was appointed as the first representative of the Kurdistan region in 2006 following the unification of the two administrations and the establishment of the Kurdish National Assembly.
He was first elected as Deputy Prime Minister of the KRG Cabinet in June 2014, where he first took office. With decreasing oil prices, the Kurdistan region was in the middle of a huge financial crisis. In addition, the Islamic State was raging through Iraq, claiming territories and establishing itself as one of the country's most violent terrorist organizations, resulting in a large humanitarian crisis that has caused the evacuation of 1.8 million citizens and forced them to leave war and terror and seek refuge in the Kurdistan region. The KRG successfully oversaw a series of reforms during this period.
A significant component of the KRG's economic growth initiative called for tighter control of government budgets. Talabani also oversaw the development and implementation of his government's biometric registration scheme, which came to an end.
Talabani established and led the Department of Coordination and Follow-up during the KRG's Seventh Cabinet to promote inter-ministerial coordination. For two years, he directed the KRG department on behalf of the Prime Minister.
He was elected to parliament in the 2018 parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan region, but he did not accept his position.
He was elected to the PUK's leadership council in December 2019 in the PUK's fourth congress.