Academic and politician Hêmin Ahmed Hema Salih, known as Hêmin Hawrami, was elected in 2010 at the Thirteenth Congress as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party; in 2018 he was elected a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly for its fifth term and became its first deputy speaker.

Biography

Hêmin Hawrami was born in Halabja in 1976. During 1986–1987 he went with his family to Iran as a refugee. In 1999 he obtained a bachelor's degree in English language and literature from Salahaddin University–Erbil. In 2018 he was elected a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly for its fifth term and became its first deputy speaker. In 2021 he obtained a doctorate in international relations from Soran University. He is proficient in Kurdish, English, Persian, and Arabic.

Political struggle

In 1991 Hêmin Hawrami joined the Kurdistan Students Union, and in 1992 became head of the Halabja District Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union.

During 2004–2010 he became director general at the Kurdistan Region Security Council. In 2011 he became head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Foreign Relations Office; in 2012 he supervised the Media Advisory Board of the President's Private Office; and in 2017 he became responsible for political affairs and public relations in President Masoud Barzani's office.

, in 2010 at the Thirteenth Congress he was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party,  .in 2018 he was elected a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly for its fifth term and became its first deputy speaker, and in 2022 at the Fourteenth Congress he was elected a member of the Central Committee and, at the first meeting of the Leadership Committee, a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, becoming head of the Organization Department.

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