| Abdul Razzaq al-Issa | |
| Native Name: | عبد الرزاق العيسى |
| Office: | Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research |
| Term Start: | 15 August 2016 |
| Term End: | 25 October 2018 |
| Primeminister: | Haider al-Abadi |
| Predecessor: | Hussain al-Shahristani |
| Successor: | Jamal al-Adil |
| Office1: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start1: | 21 September 2016 |
| Term End1: | 25 October 2018 |
| Primeminister1: | Haider al-Abadi |
| Predecessor1: | Hoshyar Zebari |
| Successor1: | Fuad Hussein |
| Birth Place: | Najaf, Iraq |
| Birth Name: | Abdul Razzaq Abdul Jalel al-Issa |
| Nationality: | Iraqi |
| Alma Mater: | University of Basrah University of Liverpool |
Abdul Razzaq Abdul Jalel al-Issa (Arabic:عبد الرزاق العيسى) (born 1949) is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts. He was recently Iraq's Minister of Higher Education.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
al-Issa was born in 1949 in Najaf, Iraq. He studied chemistry at the University of Basra in 1971 and received his doctorate from University of Liverpool in 1979. He served as president of the University of Kufa from 2006 until 2011 and in 2015 became a consultant to the Minister of Higher Education "Hussain al-Shahristani". In April 2016, Minister Haider al-Abadi to the government of technocrats to assume the post of Ministry of Higher Education and in August 2016 was approved in the Iraqi parliament to take office.