Dr. Ihsan Al-Attar

As a member of Board of Trustees of the Iraq Energy Academy (IENA) , Dr. Ihsan Al-Attar is a procurement expert and an engineering project management consultant  with the Ministry of Oil. He earned his Ph.D degree in 1997 and his M.Sc degree in engineering and construction project management from Aston University in the UK  1979, and his B.Sc degree in civil engineering 1968 from Cardiff University under an oil sector scholarship to the UK. After graduation he started his career as an engineer in the Oil Projects Company (SCOP) of the Ministry of Oil and actively  participated in the planning, design , implementation and project management activities of a number of major projects in the Iraqi oil and gas sector including oilfield development , refineries and pipelines .During his long engineering  career he also worked on a number of projects in the oil sector of the UAE as well as a procurement manager at the Procurement Assistance Center (PAC) in the Ministry of Planning of Iraq where he participated as a member of the inter- ministerial committee in drafting the currently employed  Public Contracts Implementing Regulations 2008 as well as preparing the draft of the  first Iraqi Public Contracts Law yet under legislation.