Roj Shaweis

{{Short description|1st prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Roj Shaweis | honorific_suffix = | image = Rowsch Shaways.jpg | caption = Shaweis in 2011 | image_size = | alt = | office = 1st Prime Minister of Kurdistan Region | president = Massoud Barzani | term_start = 26 September 1996 | term_end = 20 December 1999 | predecessor = Position established | successor = Nechirvan Barzani | office1 = Speaker of Kurdistan Parliament | term_start1 = October 1999 | term_end1 = January 2003 | predecessor1 = Jawhar Namiq | successor1 = Kamal Fuad | office2 = Interim Vice President of Iraq | alongside2 = Ibrahim al-Jaafari | term_start2 = 1 June 2004 | term_end2 = 7 April 2005 | president2 = Ghazi al-Yawer (interim) | predecessor2 = Taha Yassin Ramadan | successor2 = Ghazi al-Yawer and Adil Abdul-Mahdi (Vice Presidents) | office3 = Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq | term_start3 = 7 April 2005 | term_end3 = 20 May 2006 | prime_minister3 = Ibrahim al-Jaafari Nouri al-Maliki | predecessor3 = Barham Salih | successor3 = Barham Salih | term_start4 = 20 August 2009 | term_end4 = 8 September 2014 | prime_minister4 = Nouri al-Maliki | alongside4 = Rafi al-Issawi,<ref>{{cite book|title=Central Intelligence Agency|publisher=CIA|year=2010|page=310}}</ref> Saleh al-Mutlaq<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=517&nID=45588&NewsCatID=352|title=Iraq Cabinet weakens as violence escalates|publisher=Hürriyet Daily News|date=25 April 2013}}</ref> and Hussain al-Shahristani<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579234293171045128|title=Kurds Forge a Risky Oil Deal With Turkey|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=2 December 2013}}</ref> | predecessor4 = Barham Salih | successor4 = Hoshyar Zebari | term_start5 = 18 October 2014 | term_end5 = 10 August 2015 | prime_minister5 = Haider al-Abadi | predecessor5 = Hoshyar Zebari | successor5 = | alongside5 = Saleh al-Mutlaq and Baha Araji<ref>{{cite book|author=IBP, Inc.|title=Iraq Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ez86CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|date=23 June 2015|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-329-24431-3|page=33}}{{self-published source|reason=Lulu.com is a self-publishing platform|date=June 2022}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date text|1947}} | birth_place = Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Kingdom of Iraq | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|2|15|1947|df=y}} | death_place = Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq | party = 22px Kurdistan Democratic Party | spouse = Elke Shaweis | children = 3 | native_name_lang = ku | native_name = {{nobold|ڕۆژ شاوەیس}} }}

'''Roj Nouri Shaweis''' ({{langx|ckb|ڕۆژ نووری شاوەیس}}, {{langx|ar|روز نوري شاويس}};&lrm; 1947 – 15 February 2021<ref>[https://shafaq.com/en/Kurdistan/KDP-Rowsch-Shaways-dies-today KDP’ Rowsch Shaways dies today]</ref>) was a Kurdish politician who served as the first Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan. After the invasion of Iraq that overthrew the Saddam Hussein regime, he served as one of Iraq's two vice presidents in the interim government established in 2004. Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari and later held the same post under Nouri al-Maliki. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister under Haider Al-Abadi from 8 September 2014 to 9 August 2015. Previously, he served as speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly in the Kurdish autonomous region and was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

==Family and education== His father, Nouri Sadiq Shaweis, was one of the first Kurdish cabinet ministers in Iraq after the Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970. His mother, Nahida Sheikh Salam, served as the first woman Member of the KDP Central Committee.

He was the eldest of eight brothers.

Shaweis earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany and returned to Iraq in 1975 to join the Kurdish resistance to Saddam Hussein, where he helped lead the Peshmerga forces in many key battles alongside Masoud Barzani.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2004/06/01/iraq/whoswho620555_0_4_person.shtml CBS News profile] * [http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=8061#6 CFR profile]

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box|title=Prime Minister of KDP-controlled Kurdistan|before=Post Created|after=Nechervan Barzani|years=1996–1999|}} {{succession box|title=Interim Vice President of Iraq Served alongside Ibrahim al-Jaafari|before=Taha Yassin Ramadan |after=Adil Abdul Mahdi and Ghazi al-Yawar as Vice Presidents|years=2004–2005|}} {{succession box|title=Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq|before=Barham Salih (interim Deputy Prime Minister)|after=Barham Salih|years=2005–2006|}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaways, Rowsch}} Category:1947 births Category:2021 deaths Category:Vice presidents of Iraq Category:Kurdistan Democratic Party politicians Category:Deputy prime ministers of Iraq Category:Prime ministers of the Kurdistan Region (Iraq) Category:Speakers of the Kurdistan Region Parliament Category:University of Mosul alumni Category:Date of birth missing Category:Place of death missing Category:People from Sulaymaniyah