Ibrahim Mohamed Bahr al-Uloum

Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Uloum (b. 1954) is the current Iraqi Minister of Oil, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Shia Muslim, al-Ulloum is the son of Shia cleric Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum. al-Uloum was educated in the United States, earning a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of New Mexico; he later worked for the Kuwaiti oil ministry, for the Petroleum Recovery Research Center in New Mexico, and as an independent consultant in London (from 1992 to 2003). He avoided an assassination attempt in Iraq on 12 October 2003.