Ayham al-Samaraie

Ayham al-Samarrai is the current Iraqi Minister of Electricity, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Sunni Muslim, al-Samarrai was a member of the Iraqi exile community in the United States during the 1990s, when he was a member of the executive committee of the opposition group Democratic Centrist Tendency. He is an associate of Adnan Pachachi and a member of Pachachi's Iraqi Independent Democrats.