Laith Kubba Interview

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Laith Kubba is one of the most knowledgeable Iraqis now helping to rebuild his country from positions both in the government and in the private sector. He was one of the founders of the Iraqi National Congress and served on its first Executive Committee and as its spokesman in 1992. From 1993 until 1998 Kubba was the Director of International Relations at the Al Khoei Foundation in London. He has also served on the boards of regional institutions including the Iraq Foundation and the Arab Organization for Human Rights. He has a Bachelors degree from the University of Baghdad 1976 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom.

After the Administration of Iraq by Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority, Kubba was the Senior Advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Jaafari and the official spokesman for the newly sovereign Iraqi government in 2005. Kubba currently works in both London and Washington where is the Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy.

Mr. Kubba was interviewed for GfA on March 14, 2008. In this interview Kubba underscores the main theme in our PLAN V for IRAQ, the critical importance of implementing federalism with substantially more power and authority devolving to the Provinces. Kubba stresses that the Kurdish region may decide at some point to seek more autonomous or even independent status. But the rest of the country must now find ways to restructure Arab Iraq as a truly federal but united State, and this means new political, constitutional and regional arrangements suited to truly rebuilding such a unique country that has suffered such traumatic events in its history.