Raid Jahid Fahmi

In August 2007 he was appointed head of the Commission on the Normalisation of the Status of Kirkuk. ICP contested the Iraqi legislative election of Mai 2018 as part of list Sairoon Alliance. Raid Fahmi was elected as member of the Council of Representative of Iraq (COR) and took charge of his office on September 3rd 2018. Raid Fahmi announced his resignation from the Iraqi Parliament on the 27th of October 2019 in solidarity with the popular protest movement and in protest against the lack of effective action from the legislative power to put an end to the use of violence against the demonstrators by the security and other non official armed groups. He is married and a father of four children.

The ICP contested the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 as part of the Iraqi National List coalition, and in May 2006 Raid Fahmi was appointed Minister of Science and Technology in al-Maliki's government of national unity.

Raid Jahid Fahmi'), (Arabic: رائد جاهد فهمي ‎; born 1950) is an Iraqi politician and economist and a former Minister of Science and Technology in the Government of Iraq from 2006 to 2010 of Nouri Al-Maliki.

He is of Arab origin born in Baghdad. His father was a lawyer and a civil servant in the Iraqi foreign Ministry and held posts in Lebanon and Switzerland in the lates 1950s and early 1960s. He has spent most of his life in exile. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London and the Paris Sorbonne University and has worked as a researcher for the Industrial Bank of Kuwait, the OECD. He taught and gave lectures in educational and academic institutions in France and was the Iraqi Communist Party's representative in France. He edited the Al-Thaqafah al-Jadidah magazine.