Nizar Amidi

About

Nizar Mohammed Saeed Amidi (born 8 February 1968) is an Iraqi engineer and politician who has served as president of Iraq since 2026. A member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), he previously served as the minister of environment in the government of prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani from 2022 to 2024.
He graduated from the University of Mosul in 1993 with an engineering degree before working as a physics teacher. He has also more than 20 years of experience in governmental and political work and has undertaken executive and advisory roles in Iraqi state institutions. Amidi served as the chief of staff to four previous presidents of Iraq, whose presidencies spanned from 2008 to 2022. He led the Political Bureau of the PUK in Baghdad from 2024.

== Early life and education ==
Amidi was born on 6 February 1968, in the district of Amedi in Mosul Province, now in the Duhok Governorate. He relocated to Mosul for higher education and received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Mosul in 1993. He subsequently worked as a physics teacher during the 1990s, and lived and worked in both Sulaymaniyah and Baghdad.

== Political career ==
Amidi has been…