Ali Allawi

Ali Allawi
Ali Allawi
علي علاوي
	Allawi in 2008
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
	In office; 7 May 2020 – 16 August 2022
President	Barham Salih
Prime Minister	Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
Preceded by	Fuad Hussein
Succeeded by	Taif Sami Mohammed
	In office; 6 April 2005 – May 2006
President	Jalal Talabani
Prime Minister	Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Preceded by	Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Succeeded by	Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi
Minister of Defence
	In office; April 2004 – June 2004
President	Ghazi Mashal
Prime Minister	Ayad Allawi
Succeeded by	Hazim al-Shaalan
Minister of Trade
	In office; September 2003 – June 2004
Preceded by	Coalition Provisional Authority
Succeeded by	Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Personal details
Born	1947 (age 78–79); Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq
Citizenship	Iraq, United States, United Kingdom
Party	Non-partisan
Relations	Ahmed Chalabi (uncle) ; Ayad Allawi (cousin)
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University

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Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (Arabic: علي عبد الامير علاوي; born 1947) is an Iraqi banker, politician, historian and political economist. His research focuses on the history and political economy of the modern Middle East and of the developing world. Allawi is a former visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford.

From May 2020 to August 2022, he served as Iraq's deputy prime minister and finance minister. He resigned from the post of finance minister on 16 August 2022 due to the deteriorating political situation in Iraq.

He was minister of trade and minister of defense in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council from September 2003 until 2004, and subsequently minister of finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006.