• Fawzi Franso Toma.
• Born 1958 in the town of Harir, Erbil.
• Master’s Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 1997.
• 2003: Director of the Office of the Iraqi Foreign Minister.
• 2005: Member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives.
• 2006: Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals.
• 2011: President of the Diwan of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Region.
• 2013: Advisor to the President of the Kurdistan Region.
• He comes from an Assyrian family of the Kurdistan Region.
• He opposed the Ba'athist regime in Iraq, prompting his escape first to Iran and subsequently to Britain.
• Father to a son and a daughter.
• Fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, English and Persian.