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Nadhim al-Zahawi
Governor of the central bank of Iraq 1959-1960 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nadhim al-Zahawi[1] (Arabic: ناظم الزهاوي) was Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from May 1959 to November 1960.[2] He was also Iraqi Minister of Trade.[3]
Al Zahawi established the Al-Zahawi Group, which after the United States invasion of 2003 obtained a lucrative contract to provide logistics, cleaning and support services to the new US-led interim government.[4] Now known as IPBD ("Iraq Project and Business Development"), its interests have expanded to cover steel manufacturing and property development,[5] and generally "supporting the reconstruction effort".[6]
Al-Zahawi was of Kurdish ethnicity. Zahawi's son is a director of Balshore Investments Ltd, Gibraltar.[7] His grandson is the British politician Nadhim Zahawi.[8]
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