Zeyad Abdul-Razzaq Mohammed Aswad

Ziad Abderrazzak Mohammad Aswad is the current Iraqi Minister of Higher Education, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Sunni Muslim, he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and formerly chaired Baghdad University's Department of Petroleum Engineering. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and University of Oklahoma in the United States.