Sawsan Ali Sharifi

In July 2017, Commission on Public Integrity sentenced Sharifi to seven-year imprisonment for corruption. She had signed a contract between her ministry and a private firm for supplying portable excavators. The commission in its inquiry, found that the amount approved was beyond the limit prescribed for ministers. Orders were issued for seizure of her property. Later, the sentence was reduced to five years.

Sharifi also served on the State Board of Agricultural Research. When the Food and Agriculture Organization conducted a research on Iraqi buffaloes, she was made its national co-ordinator. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Sharifi was made deputy minister of Agriculture in the Coalition Provisional Authority. She was promoted to the cabinet minister post in Iraqi Interim Government (June 2004) under Iyad Allawi. The following year, she secured a seat in Iraqi List and was elected to the Transition National Assembly and served on its Committee for Agriculture.

After her return to Iraq, Sharifi was appointed on the Scientific Research Council in 1984. Six years later, she was promoted to the post of major researcher. More than 40 of her research papers were published in Iraqi Journal of Agriculture and she edited the publication for several years.

Sawsan Ali Majid Al-Sharifi (Arabic: سوسن علي ماجد الشريفي) (b. 1956) was made the Minister of Agriculture in Iyad Allawi's Iraqi Interim Government in 2004.

Sawsan Ali Sharifi was born in Baghdad in 1955. After completing her Bachelor of Science (1977) in Animal production from the University of Baghdad. She moved to the United States to pursue studying at Iowa State University (ISU) and earned a Master's degree in 1981 in Animal Science, and earned a PhD. in 1983.