Biography

Aras Hasso Mirkan was born in 1968 in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He received his Bachelor's degree in 1993, his Master's in 1996, and his Doctorate in Pharmacy in 1998 from the University of Isfahan in the country of Iran. In 2009, he obtained a Master's in Administration from the Lebanese-French University in Erbil. From 2000 to 2001, in the fourth cabinet, he was the Director General of Culture and Media at the Ministry of Peshmerga, and from 2002 to 2011, he was the Director General of the Board of Supreme Audit of the Kurdistan Regional Government. He is proficient in Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, and English.

Struggle History

Aras Hasso Mirkan, in 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution became a refugee in Iran with his family. In 1982, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, and in 1988, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan and participated in the Khwakurk battle.

In 1995, he became the commander of the Martyr Ali Hasso Battalion and was wounded in the defense battle of Qasre in the border area of Erbil Governorate. In 1997, in the battle for the defense of the Kurdistan Region in the Amadiya area, affiliated with Duhok Governorate, he was wounded for the second time. In 2014, he participated in the war against the forces of ISIS on the Gwer-Makhmur front in the border area of Erbil Governorate.

During his time working in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he took on several tasks and responsibilities, such as: Head of the University District Committee affiliated with the Political Bureau among refugee students of universities and institutes in Iran (1990), Deputy Head of the Peshmerga Organization Bureau (1998-2000), Bureau Member in the President's Office (2000-2010), Head of the Sixteenth Branch of Erbil Suburbs (2011-2017), Head of the Party's Investment Agency (2020), etc.

He was a delegate to the Eleventh Congress in 1993 and the Twelfth Congress in 1999, and in 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2022, at the Fourteenth Congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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