Jabir Habeb Jabir

Jabir Habeb Jabir taught political science at the University of Baghdad before entering parliament and diplomacy. He chaired the university’s political thought department, headed the Iraqi Society of Political Sciences, and wrote a weekly column for Asharq Al-Awsat. ¹

A member of parliament and its constitution review committee, he became an ambassador in 2010 and took up the Washington posting in January 2012. He subsequently served in Tunisia from 2013 to 2017 and became ambassador to Austria in 2018. ^{1, 2}