Dr. Abdullatif Jamal Rashid is the current President of the Republic of Iraq. Formerly, President Rashid served as the Minister of Water Resources (2003 - 2010), senior advisor to President Talabani since 2010, and continued in his position until 2018. The political history of President Rashid began in the sixties of the last century when he joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and later joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) as the Party’s representative to the United Kingdom and other European countries..