At the official invitation of the Executive Director of theBritish Council in London, Dr. Hamid Khalaf, Undersecretary of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Ziad Yousef Abdoun participated in the meetings and workshops of the annual conference of the Iraqi-British Business Council held in London for the period from 29-30 June 2019 .
Dr. Ziad also participated in the management of the session on Iraqi and British Higher Education. The British side was represented by the British House of Lords Baroness Emma Nicholson, the British Ambassador to Iraq Jonathan Wilkes and a number of political, academic and media elites, businessmen and dignitaries from both sides. Iraq represented a high-level delegation headed by His Excellency Dr. Barham Valid.
The meetings of the annual conference of the British British Council of Iraq sessions of higher education and scientific research, and a large presence by a number of representatives of British universities in the United Kingdom, which have mutual cooperation with Iraqi universities, and the presence of a number of academics, researchers and interested in this area.
In addition, Dr. Ziad participated in a special and separate meeting attended by Mr. Wakil, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Iraq, Dr. Victoria Lindsay, the British Council in Iraq, and Professor Colin Raban, representative of the British Business Council.
The annual conference resulted in a series of recommendations and programs of action to be implemented within the framework of joint cooperation between the Iraqi and British sides in the higher education and scientific research sector.
In the photo from the right: Dr. Ziad Yousef Abdoun, Dr. Reinhard Mansour, representative of the British Royal Institute for International Relations, Dr. Hamid Khalaf, Under Secretary of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Baroness Emma Nicholson, Member of the British House of Lords, and Ambassador Jonathan Wilkes, UK Ambassador to Iraq.