Atheel al-Nujaifi (Arabic: أثيل النجيفي; Turkish: Esil Nuceyfi; born 1958) is an Iraqi politician who was the Governor of Nineveh Governorate from April 2009 until May 2015.

He is a brother of the Vice-President of Iraq, Osama al-Nujaifi.

[3] His ancestors were closely aligned with the Ottoman rulers of Mosul, resulting in them receiving huge grants of land in al-Hamdaniya district.

Nujaifi has degrees in Engineering and Law from the University of Mosul.

[citation needed] Former governor Atheel al-Nujaifi in the Yezidian Academy, Hanover, Germany, 2014