POSITION
Minister of Oil
COMPANY
Ministry of Oil
COUNTRY
Iraq
Est. Net Worth
Not known
SCENE
Iraq: Minister for Oil, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar
Ihsan is an engineer who became director general of Basra Oil before becoming an Iraqi minister. Born in 1974, he was raised by a family working in the oil industry, he gained an engineering degree in 1996. He apparently has no political affiliations though his cousin is the leader of the Islamic Virtue Party and another cousin was the head of parliaments integrity committee. There have been allegations of corruption against the Basra oil company during his tenure.