Qassim Abbas Daoud is an Iraq

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i scientist and politician. Born in Al Hillah, he graduated from Baghdad University in 1971. He then studied in Britain

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, earning a doctorate in microbiology and environment in 1982 from the University of Wales

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. He worked in the United Arab Emirates

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 and at one time was the general secretary of the Iraqi Democratic Movement.

Daoud became a minister of state

Minister of State

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 without portfolio

Minister without Portfolio

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 in the Iraqi Interim Government

Iraqi Interim Government

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 in June 2004. In September 2004 he replaced Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i as national security advisor for the Interim Government.

He was elected to the transitional National Assembly

National Assembly of Iraq

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 in January 2005 and now serves in the Council of Representatives as a member of the United Iraqi Alliance

United Iraqi Alliance

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. He was a member of the committee

Members of the Iraqi Constitution Drafting Committee

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 that drafted the Constitution of Iraq

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Daoud is married and has three children.