Dlawer Ala'Aldeen is the Founding President of the Middle East Research Institute, a policy-research institute based in Arbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He served as the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and was a former Professor of Medicine in the UK at the University of Nottingham. Ala'Aldeen's extensive background encompasses leadership in academia and research, particularly in the fields of medicine and policy development [1][3][6].