Osama al-Nujaifi

Osama al-Nujaifi
أسامة النجيفي
Al-Nujaifi in 2011
Vice President of Iraq[2][3]
In office 10 October 2016[1] – 2 October 2018 Serving with Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi
President	Fuad Masum
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Vacant
In office 9 September 2014 – 11 August 2015 Serving with Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi
President	Fuad Masum
Preceded by	Khodair al-Khozaei
Succeeded by	Himself
Speaker of the Council of Representatives
In office 11 November 2010 – 15 July 2014
Prime Minister	Nouri al-Maliki
Preceded by	Fuad Masum (Acting)
Succeeded by	Salim al-Jabouri
Minister of Industry
In office 3 May 2005 – 20 May 2006
Prime Minister	Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Preceded by	Hajim al-Hassani (Interim)
Succeeded by	Fawzi Hariri
Personal details
Born	Usama Abdu'l Aziz al-Nujayfi 1956 (age 67–68) Mosul, Iraq
Political party	al-Hadba (in the Muttahidoon coalition)
Relations	Atheel al-Nujaifi (Brother)
Residence	Baghdad, Iraq
Profession	Engineer, politician

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi^[4] (Arabic: أسامة النجيفي; born c. 1956) is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country, from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council of Representatives, the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.

An engineer by profession, al-Nujaifi served as Minister of Industry in the 2005–06 Iraqi Transitional Government. He later won the 2010 parliamentary election and was elected the Speaker of the Council of Representatives. During this time, he built up a reputation as prime minister al-Maliki staunchest adversary, whom as a Sunni he could defy but not challenge. After leaving offices together with al-Maliki in 2014, he was rewarded the ceremonial post of a Vice President of Iraq, which he held until 2015. The positions of all three Vice Presidents was restored in October 2016.