Iraqi Governing Council

An advisory body created by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Governing Council advised the CPA and other stakeholders, such as UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, on governamce questions, debaathification, and forming the Interim Iraqi Government. It was formed in July 2003, and had 25 members:

• 13 Shia
• 5 Sunni Arabs
• 5 Sunni Kurds
• 1 Sunni Turkoman
• 1 Assyrian Christian

Name	Religion/Ethnicity (exile)	Affiliation
Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum	Shi'a
Ahmed Chalabi	Shi'a	Iraqi National Council
Iyad Alawi	Shi'a	Iraqi National Accord (INA)
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim	Shi'a	Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)
Ibrahim Jafari	Shi'a	Islamic Dawa Party
Mowaffak al-Rubaie	Shi'a	former Da’wa
Wael Abdul Latif,	Shi'a	a judge in Basra since 1982 who was named interim governor of the city in June 2003
Hamid Majeed Mousa	Shi'a	Iraqi Communist Party
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The transition to a sovereign Iraqi Government would take another 11 months, when the Interim Iraqi Government (IIG) assumed political authority from the CPA. While the IIG would be sovereign, there still would be a major and dominant US troop presence that would not withdraw fully from the cities until 2009.