Abdul Latif Rashid

Rashid was born in Sulaymaniyah in the Kingdom of Iraq and studied engineering in the United Kingdom, at the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester; he is a chartered engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He worked as a senior project manager for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Yemen and Saudi Arabia and as a freelance consultant on irrigation and drainage. He began his political career in the 1960s in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, later became a leading figure of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), its representative and spokesman in the United Kingdom from 1986, and in 1992 was elected vice president of the Iraqi National Congress. He is married to Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, daughter of the poet Ibrahim Ahmed, and is a brother-in-law of Jalal Talabani. ^{1 2}

From September 2003 to December 2010 Rashid was Minister of Water Resources through the interim, transitional and elected governments, responsible for irrigation, water supply, hydropower, flood control and marsh restoration. From 2010 he served as a senior adviser to the president. ¹

Under Iraq's power-sharing convention, by which a Kurd is elected president, Rashid was elected on 13 October 2022 and took office on 17 October, replacing Barham Salih after a two-round parliamentary vote, and at once appointed Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani as prime minister-designate, ending a year of deadlock. In January 2025 he sued the prime minister and the finance minister to compel the uninterrupted payment of Kurdistan Region civil servants' salaries. His term ended in April 2026, when Nizar Amidi succeeded him; the English and Arabic articles differ by a day on the term's start and end dates. ^{1 3}

His faith is recorded as unknown. The Arabic article's infobox gives his religion as Islam of the Sunni tradition and Wikidata carries the same single value, but these are one source family; the articles' Sunni category filings do not count, and no article text names his school. ^{3 4}

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