Iraq and the IMF
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Abdali Boulevard, Capital Bank Building No. 4, Al-Aswaq Street, Floor #5, Jordan
Email: mjaber2@imf.org
Phone: +962 6 510 7230
At a Glance
- 2026 Projected Real GDP (% Change) : -6.8
- 2026 Projected Consumer Prices (% Change): 3.0
- Country Population: 46.64 million
- Date of Membership: December 27, 1945
- Article IV/Country Report: July 14, 2025
- Special Drawing Rights (SDR): 273.35 million
- Quota (SDR): 1663.8 million
- Number of Arrangements since membership: 5
Executive Board Calendar and Consultations
- The last Article IV Executive Board Consultation was on June 24, 2025.
- Board Discussions on Iraq are listed under the Executive Board Calendar.
- Related items include:
- Article IV Staff Reports
- Financial Position in the Fund
- Transactions with the Fund
- International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB)
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Resident Representative for Iraq
- Resident Representative: Mohamed Jaber
- Mohamed joined the IMF in 2006 as an economist in the GCC division, where he served for two years.
- He then spent ten years in the financial sector, first as head of MENA economics at Morgan Stanley and later as head of research at the Abu Dhabi Investment Council.
- In 2018, he returned to the Fund as a senior financial sector expert in the Global Markets Analysis division.
- Subsequently, he joined the Iran desk as a senior economist and, in 2024, assumed the role of Resident Representative for Iraq and Yemen.
- He holds a Ph.D. from the George Washington University.
Resident Representative Office Staff
- Dina Zahran, Economist
- Bisan Saadeh, Administrative Assistant
- Bisan Saadeh is the Administrative Assistant at the IMF’s Resident Representative Office for Iraq and Yemen in Jordan since Nov 2012.
- She has won “Divisional Spot Award 2018” from Chris Jarvis, the Division Chief of Bisan Saadeh Division B for providing top notch assistance to the Iraq team in their meetings with the Iraq authorities in Amman.
- Previously, she has worked as Business Development Coordinator in TECHNO Industrial Group, and Administrative Assistant in Saddle Engineering Technology.
- Bisan holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Applied Environmental Geology from University of Jordan and a diploma in Information Technology.