غانم بن علوان بن جواد الجميلي Ghanim Alwan Aljumaily | |
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Ambassador of Iraq to Saudi Arabia | |
Assumed office April 2009 | |
Ambassador of Iraq to Japan | |
In office July 2004 –April 2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Baghdad,Iraq | June 1,1950
Spouse | Widad Slah |
Occupation | Politician,businessperson,scientist,educator |
Ghanim Alwan Al-Jumaily (born June 1,1950) [1] is the ambassador of Iraq to Saudi Arabia,appointed by the interim government of Iraq in 2008. He first served as Iraq's ambassador to Japan in 2004. He has four children,Anas,Youssra,Mariam and Omar.
Al-Jumaily holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico,an M.S. in Optics from the University of Arizona,and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Baghdad. During the course of his career he came to hold two patents in the field of optics. [2]
Prior to his appointment as ambassador,he served as the CEO of Life for Relief and Development,a Michigan-based charity credited with helping Iraqi families during the Post-Gulf War I period. Before that,he worked for various private firms,including Minnesota-based Seagate. He also worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California where he worked specifically on the Mars Pathfinder rover. [2] In 1999,Aljumaily co edited a book by the name of Optical Metrology.
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Al-Jumaily is currently an engineering professor at the College of Engineering,Technology,and Aeronautics at Southern New Hampshire University. [3]
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In September 2008,Arabic news agencies reported that Al-Jumaily had been nominated to be Iraq's first Ambassador to Saudi Arabia since the Gulf War. [6] In March 2009,his appointment was confirmed. [7]
In April 2009,during a discussion between Al-Jumaily and Iraq's President Jalal Talabani,the President credited Al-Jumaily for building robust ties with Japan during his term as Ambassador there. The Ambassador replied that he understands the weight of his new mission and will work to build ties with what he called a country with ancestral and brotherly ties with Iraq. He also promised to create an embassy in Iraq that would serve as a representative of all Iraqi people. [8]
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