FY-2006 RP: "WOMEN AS ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 AMMAN 007858 SIPDIS ECA/PE/V/R/N (SABED-KOTOB, EDIGGINS); NEA/PPD (DBENZE); NEA/ELA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OEXC SCUL JO SUBJECT: FY-2006 RP: "WOMEN AS ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS LEADERS"- JANUARY 9 - 27, 2006 ¶1. THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION IN BAGHDAD NOMINATES DR. SAWSAN AL-SHARIFI FOR SUBJECT PROGRAM. ¶2. DR. AL-SHARIFI HAS RECEIVED COUNTRY TEAM APPROVAL FOR HER PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM. ¶3. FULL BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FOLLOWS: START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : THE FOLLOWING DATA IS IN A FIXED FORMAT WHICH ENABLES : AUTOMATED PROCESSING IN WASHINGTON AND SHOULD NOT BE : EDITED EXCEPT BY MEANS OF THE POST-EVDB SOFTWARE. EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB VERSION: 3.0.7 POST-EMAIL: ALDADAWM@STATE.GOV TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS AMMAN TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 2887 EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA START NOMINATION: ECA-OFFICE: E/VGN PROG-AGENCY-NAME: POST-PROJ-ID: 275 ECA-PROJ-NO: E/VGN-2006-0014 PROJ-NAME: WOMEN AS ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS LEADERS-IRAQ START MEMO PROJ-DESC: END MEMO PROJ-DESC: PROJ-TYPE: REGIONAL PROG-TYPE: IV GRANT VISITOR FY: 2006 DEPART-POST: 01/07/2006 SESSION-DATE: 01/09/2006 RETURN-POST: 01/28/2006 NO-OF-PART: 1 RANK-ORDER: 0 START MEMO POST-OBJ: END MEMO POST-OBJ: START MEMO POST-RCMD: END MEMO POST-RCMD: ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1039 PROG-AGENCY-ID: PROJ-TYPE-ID: RP PROG-TYPE-ID: 29 NOMINATING-POST-ID: 2887 FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: STATUS: N ORIGINATOR: U SUBJ-DISC: ECONOMIC & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT START BIO: PREFIX: DR. F-NAME: SAWSAN M-NAME: ALI MAGID L-NAME: AL-SHARIFI SUFFIX: POSITION-CODE: 100 PRINCIPAL: YES GENDER: F DOB: 07/01/1955 MAR-STAT: BIRTH-CITY: BAGHDAD BIRTH-CNTRY: IRAQ CITIZ-CNTRY: IRAQ RES-CNTRY: IRAQ START MEMO POSITION: CHAIRPERSON OF THE TNA'S COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE END MEMO POSITION: START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: START MEMO US-TRAVEL: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. END MEMO US-TRAVEL: START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: NONE END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: START MEMO EDUCATION: MASTERS AND PHD FROM UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. END MEMO EDUCATION: START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: NONE END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: NONE END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: FIRST-LANG: ARABIC ENGL-READ: 5 ENGL-SPEAK: 5 ENGL-COMP: 5 START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: START MEMO VIS-OBJ: END MEMO VIS-OBJ: START MEMO VIS-REC: END MEMO VIS-REC: NOMINATING-OFFICER: ANITA KATIAL START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: DR. SAWSAN WOULD BE AN IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR THE WOMEN AS ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS LEADERS PROGRAM IN JANUARY 2006; SHE HAS BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN IRAQI WOMEN'S ISSUES THROUGHOUT HER GOVERNMENT CAREER; SHE HAS SERVED IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE IN VARIOUS LEVELS OF INCREASING RESPONSIBILITY AND VISIBILITY TO IRAQIS AND THE WORLD FROM SENIOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER TO DEPUTY MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, AND FINALLY AS MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE UNDER THE ITG; RECENTLY, SAWSAN WAS APPOINTED AS A MEMBER OF THE IRAQI NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND CHAIRPERSON OF THE TNA'S COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE; IN HER CURRENT ROLE, SAWSAN WILL WORK TO FURTHER DEVELOP AND PROMOTE THE EXPANSION OF IRAQ'S AGRICULTURE SECTOR THROUGH PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF INVESTMENT, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND EDUCATION, AS WELL AS CONTRIBUTE TO FORMULATING IRAQ'S AGRICULTURAL POLICY. END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: NOM-OFF: SPEAKER: NO NOTIFY-EMB: YES MEDIA: NO HOME-STAY: NO HOME-HOSP: YES E-I-TYPE: NOMINEE-ID: 625 PERSON-ID: 623 BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: IZ CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: IZ RES-CNTRY-ID: IZ FIRST-LANG-ID: AR E-I-TYPE-ID: NOM-POST-ID: 2887 NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 0 NOM-STATUS: N DS2019-ACTION: 1 DS2019-SUBJECT: 45.0699 SPONS-FUNDS: 8000 SPONS-AGENCY1: USGOVT-AGENCY1: US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 USGOVT-AGENCY2: US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 INTL-ORG1: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 INTL-ORG2: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 COMMISSION: 0 OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-CAT: 5 END BIO: END NOMINATION: END FIXED-FORMAT