Key facts
- President
- Fuad Masum
- Preceded by
- Himself
- Succeeded by
- Vacant
- Born
- ( 1944-05-31 ) 31 May 1944 (age 82) , Adhamiyah , Baghdad , Kingdom of Iraq
- Citizenship
- Iraq , United Kingdom
- Party
- Iraqi National Accord (1991–present)
- Other political affiliations
- Al-Wataniya (December 2012–present) , Iraqi National Movement (2009–2012) , Ba'ath Party (1961–1976)
- Relatives
- Ahmed Chalabi (cousin) , Ali Allawi (cousin), Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (cousin)
- Alma mater
- University College London
- Profession
- Neurologist
- Website
- Ayad Allawi Website , Al-Watania Website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Lebanon
- Place of birth
- Baghdad
- Occupation
- psychiatrist
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Iraq
- Educated at
- Baghdad College
- Political party
- Iraqi National Movement
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Twelver Shiism
- Official website
- ayadallawi.com/defaultsite
- Image
- 2014 Allawi.jpg
- Height
- 185
- Number of children
- 3
- Significant event
- Panama Papers
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- Commons category
- Iyad Allawi
- date of birth
- 1944-05-31
- Commons gallery
- إياد علاوي
- name in native language
- إياد علاوي
- relative
- Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi
- social media followers
- 423226
- P10632
- Ayad Allawi
- affiliation string
- Office of the President of Iraq
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Encyclopedic overview
Ayad Allawi (Arabic: إياد علاوي, romanized: Iyād ʿAllāwī; also spelled Iyad or Eyad; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi-British politician and neurologist. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the president of the Governing Council of Iraq (38th prime minister of Iraq) in 2003.
A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, Allawi, a Shia Muslim, became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which was established by U.S.-led coalition authorities following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He became Iraq's first head of government since Saddam Hussein when the council dissolved on 1 June 2004, and named him prime minister of the Iraqi Interim Government. His term as prime minister ended on 7 April 2005, after the selection of Islamic Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari by the newly elected transitional Iraqi National Assembly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ayad Allawi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.