Ahmed Mousa Jiyad

Ahmed Mousa Jiyad 7Ahmed Mousa Jiyad is an independent development consultant and scholar.

He is founder and owner of Development Consultancy & Research; Energy Senior Expert mandated by the European Commission; accredited Expert on Extractive Industry Governance by UNDP; Associate of the former Centre for Global Energy Studies- CGES, London; Affiliated Expert with European Geopolitical Forum (Brussels); Global Energy Associate with Brussels Energy Club (Brussels); Country Analyst for the PRIX- Index on Political Risk and Oil Exports (Oslo); Blogger Expert for Iraqi Business News-IBN (UK); Senior Associate with Mannara Consulting (UAE); Contributor to the academic International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies-IJCIS; MEES and Energy & Geopolitical Risks; Oil, Gas and Energy Law-OGLE, among others.

He has been, and still is, professionally cooperating with many Iraqi, regional and international companies, organisations, institutes, media, civil society organisations and variety of other entities.

Jiyad studied and graduated with BSc in Economics (Univ., of Baghdad), Post Graduate Diploma in Planning (Univ., of Birmingham, UK), MSc in Development Studies (Univ., of Bath, UK) and MA from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts and Harvard universities, USA); in addition to attending numerous professional courses.

He has over 40 years of extensive international professional and academic experience working with governments, local governments, academic institutions, private sector, NGO and international organisations in Iraq, UK, USA, Norway, and, with UN organizations, in Poland, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Uganda, Sudan and Jordan.

While in Iraq (1968-88) he was a Lecturer at Almustansiriya University; Senior Economist with Ministry of Oil and INOC; Chief Expert and Director at the Ministry of Trade; Chief Expert and Head of Commission with the External Economic Relation Committee- Council of Ministers. During 1975-88 he had actively participated in negotiating major oil projects and contracts, financial agreements, project financing and bilateral economic and technical cooperation agreements.  He left Iraq to the US in July 1988 as Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Visiting Fellow.

Jiyad is active scholar with regular participation in international conferences, workshops, seminars and related events. He has written and publishes widely since 1976 on energy and other developmental issues, and he is regular contributor to academic, professional and industry journals and periodicals; most of his contributions and publications can be found online, mostly on https://www.iraq-businessnews.com/category/oil-gas/ahmed-mousa-jiyad/

He is Iraqi-Norwegian citizen, born in Iraq 1945, and lives in Norway since October 1989. He can be reached at: mou-jiya(at)online.no and his mailing address: Skreia 19, 5725 Vaksdal, Norway.

You can read Ahmed's articles on Iraq Business News here.