Mohamed Al-Halbousi

Mohamed Al-Halbousi
محمد الحلبوسي
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Speaker of the Council of Representatives
Assumed office
15 September 2018
Preceded bySalim al-Jabouri
Governor of Anbar
In office
29 August 2017 – 14 September 2018
Appointed byAnbar Provincial Council
PresidentFuad Masum
Preceded bySuhaib al-Rawi
Succeeded byAli Farhan Hameed
Personal details
Born (1981-01-04) 4 January 1981 (age 41)
Al-Karmah, Anbar, Iraq
NationalityIraq
Political partyProgress Party
Residence(s)Baghdad, Iraq
Alma materMustansiriya University
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionEngineer

Mohammed Rikan Hadid al-Halbousi (Arabic: محمد ريكان حديد الحلبوسي; born January 4, 1981) is an Iraqi politician who is currently the Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq since 15 September 2018. He was previously the governor of Al Anbar Governorate since 29 August 2017. He is the leader of Progress Party.

Al Halbousi won a seat in the Iraqi 2014 parliamentary elections and has been serving an MP ever since. On August 29, 2017, the Anbar Provincial Council voted by a majority vote to elect Halbusi Al Anbar governor.

Biography

Mohammed Rikan Hadid Al-Halbousi Al-Dulaimi was born on January 4, 1981 in Karmah, western Iraq. He is married and holds a degree in Highways and Roads Engineering from Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. He received a BSc. Degree in summer 2002, a year before Iraq war that was waged on March 20, 2003. Al Halbusi moved on to pursue his graduate studies at Al-Mustansiriya University where he received a master's degree in Highways and Roads Engineering in 2006. His MSc. thesis subject title was "Modeling of Pedestrian-Vehicle Conflict on Arterial Street Using the Simulation Approach".

Al Halbousi launched his own private business working as a business person. He has been owning and running Al-Hadeed Co. Ltd. for general Rebuilding projects. Al-Hadeed Company has implemented a number of infrastructure projects in Fallujah city with particular mention to the designing and implementation of the Fallujah sewage matrix. Al Halbousi remained active in his private business until he was tapped to get into the world of Iraqi politics in 2014.

Speaker of the Council of Representatives

Al-Halbousi meets with U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo in Baghdad, Iraq on January 9, 2019.

On September 2018, Halbousi was elected as the Speaker of the Council of Representatives making him the 11th to serve that position and the 6th since the 2003 invasion. He won 169 votes in a secret ballot conducted at the session of the 329-seat assembly.


On 9 January 2022, Halbousi was elected as the Speaker of Council of Representatives for a second term, defeating Mashahadani, a former speaker of the first parliament set in 2006. Halbousi won with 200 votes, according to a statement from 329-seat parliament.



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