Fuad Hussein joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Kurdistan Students Union in 1966. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the Netherlands and joined the ranks of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan there, while simultaneously becoming the secretary of the Kurdistan Students Association outside Kurdistan, remaining in the ranks of that party until 1984.
After the fall of the Ba'ath regime in Iraq in 2003 by the coalition forces, he began working as an educational supervisor in the Iraqi Ministry of Education, and his priority was to restore the education and schooling system and change the curriculum. From June 14, 2005, to November 1, 2018, during the presidency of President Masoud Barzani, he was the Chief of Staff of the Kurdistan Region Presidency. On September 23, 2018, he was the candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the position of President of Iraq. From October 24, 2018, to mid-2020, he became the Minister of Finance of Iraq in the cabinet of Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi. After the dissolution of Abdul-Mahdi's cabinet, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. At the end of January 2023, on behalf of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and with the confidence of the Iraqi Parliament, he has been serving in the cabinet of Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq.
On November 6, 2022, at the Fourteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Duhok, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee by the congress members. In the first meeting of the Political Bureau, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, English, and Dutch.
Source:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.