Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Italy
Ambassador Saywan Sabir Mustafa Barzani was born in 1972 in Erbil, in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. He graduated in Law in the University of Orléans and also completed a PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Paris Sorbonne. He started his career in 1992 as Coordinator of the Public Relations office in Erbil, and in 1997 became a KDP representative for Europe. He held the position of Regional Government Representative from Kurdistan from 1998 to 2008. In 2009, he was appointed Ambassador by the National Iraqi Council. Saywan Sabir Mustafa Barzani is now the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Italy.