Abdul Karim Luaibi

Abdul Karim Luaibi Bahedh (born 1959) is an Iraqi politician who served as the minister of oil of Iraq between December 2010 and 8 September 2014.

[1][2] He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering, which he received from Baghdad University in 1982.

[5] He was appointed deputy minister of oil in charge with the upstream operations in 2009, and was in office until 2010.

[7] He acted as the president of OPEC's 162nd ordinary meeting which was held in Vienna on 12 December 2012.

[8] In March 2016, an investigate report published on the Huffington Post revealed that Luaibi was part of a major corruption ring in the Iraqi oil industry.