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He is member of the Al-Sumaydah tribe, consequently he is also often referred to as Samir Shakir Mahmoud el-Sumaidy, Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie and other anglisizations.

On 09 April 2004, he was became minister of Interior. In August 2004 he was appointed Iraq’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

AMBASSADOR SAMIR SHAKIR MAHMOOD SUMAIDA'IE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF IRAQ TO THE UNITED NATIONS

Mr. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie was appointed Iraq’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in August 2004. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Minister of Interior in Baghdad. In this capacity he managed a domestic security force of over 120,000 and made considerable progress in restructuring the Ministry. Before that, Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as a member of Governing Council (GC) in Iraq from the time it was formed in July 2003. In the GC, he was Chairman of the Media Committee, where he played a leading role in the founding of the Iraqi Telecoms and Media Commission and the Public Broadcasting Institution. He was also active in the Security, Finance, and Foreign Relations Committees. Prior to the removal of the Baathist regime, Samir Sumaida'ie was actively involved in opposition efforts in the United Kingdom and participated in a number of Opposition and other conferences on Iraq. He co- founded a number of Political groupings, including the Patriotic Democratic Alliance in February 2004, and is recognized as a liberal democratic secular figure in Iraqi politics. A successful businessman, Samir Sumaida'ie founded a procurement agency in 1978 and has embarked on a number of entrepreneurial ventures in his career. In the 1980's he established a design office in London, pioneered the use of computers in Islamic art and completed important works in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. In 1996 he co-founded and China Business International, an investment consultancy and procurement company based in Beijing. Ambassador Sumaida'ie was born in Baghdad and won a scholarship to study in the UK from 1960. He graduated from Durham University with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1965, and turned into computing. He then returned to Iraq to work with the Baghdad Electricity Board and Iraqi Petroleum Company before leaving the country in 1973. Ambassador Sumaida'ie is married and has five children. He enjoys a wide range of cultural interests, including classical Arab poetry.

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