Adnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi, Iraqi economist and politician, graduated from London (economics) and from Loughborough University (petroleum technology). He worked in the government-controlled oil industry of Iraq in the 1970s and 1980s. After the 2003 invasion, al-Janabi served as minister of state without portfolio in the Iraqi Interim Government. He was also campaign manager of the Iraqi List for the January 2005 legislative elections. He was elected to the National Assembly in the January 2005 elections and in May 2005 became a member of the committee set up by the Iraqi Transitional Government to draft a permanent constitution. He is not a member of the current Council of Representatives. He has founded, recently, in Beirut, The Iraq Center for Research and Studies.