Qasim Al-Fahadawi

Qasim Mohammad Abid Hammadi al-Fahadawi (Arabic: قاسم محمد عبد حمادي الفهداوي) is an Iraqi politician and businessman who is the current Minister of Electricity in the Al Abadi Government, and who previously served as the Governor of Anbar from April 2009 to August 2013.

He left Iraq in 2006 due to the ongoing violence in the country and moved to the United Arab Emirates where he ran a construction company.

[2] Following his appointment, he condemned the "widely spread culture of corruption" that had developed and said he needed to "rebuild people's damaged morals".

He pledged to focus on improving the supply of electricity and building new generation plants in Haditha, Ramadi and Fallujah.

Opponents accused him of corruption, controlling how business contracts are awarded, with the head of the US Provincial Reconstruction Team saying that "accountability and transparency were at variance" with the expectations of Anbar's leaders.