Nadim al-Jabiri is an Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

i politician and the former secretary-general of the Islamic Virtue Party

Islamic Virtue Party

Islamic Virtue Party is an Iraqi political party. It follows ayatollah Muhammad Ya`qubi a student of Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and thus represent a branch of the Sadrist Movement, however the party is not affiliated with Muqtada al-Sadr and is in fact a rival to his branch of the Sadrists...

, which at the time was a component of the United Iraqi Alliance

United Iraqi Alliance

The National Iraqi Alliance , also known as the Watani List, is an Iraqi electoral coalition that contested the Iraqi legislative election, 2010. The Alliance is mainly composed of Shi'a Islamist parties...

 until it left in March 2007. He left office following differences over the nomination of Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Eshaiker al-Jafari is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. He was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004...

 to head the new Iraqi government

Government of Iraq from 2006

The current government of Iraq took office on May 20, 2006 following approval by the members of the Iraqi National Assembly. This followed the general election in December 2005...

, and was succeeded as secretary-general by Abd al-Rahim al-Hasini

Abd al-Rahim al-Hasini

Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Ali al-Hasini is an Iraqi politician and secretary-general of the Shi'ite Islamist Islamic Virtue Party, which is based in Basra....

 in May 2006.

Nadim al-Jabiri has been a professor of politics at Baghdad University.