Nadhim Zahawi

Nadhim Zahawi is a British businessman and politician, born in Baghdad on 2 June 1967, who co-founded the polling company YouGov and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2022. ^{1 2}

Zahawi was born in Baghdad to the well-known Kurdish al-Zahawi family; his grandfather Nadhim Abd al-Jalil al-Zahawi had been governor of the Central Bank of Iraq and a trade minister. ³ When he was nine, during Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the family fled to the United Kingdom, and he was educated at Holland Park School and King's College School, Wimbledon, before taking a degree in chemical engineering at University College London in 1988. ¹ The English article records only that he was brought up in a liberal Muslim family from Baghdad. ¹

After a career in marketing, Zahawi co-founded YouGov in 2000 with Stephan Shakespeare and was its chief executive from 2005 to 2010. ¹ Elected MP for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010, he became the minister responsible for the COVID-19 vaccine deployment in 2020, then Secretary of State for Education in 2021, Chancellor of the Exchequer from July to September 2022, and Chairman of the Conservative Party from October 2022 until his dismissal in January 2023 over his tax affairs. ¹ He stood down from Parliament at the 2024 election and later left the Conservatives for Reform UK. ¹

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