Born in Babylon, Iraq, in 1956, Mohamedhakiem Abdali Hamza Al-Robaiee attended Basra University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Accounting from this university’s College of Administration and Economics in 1979.
Following a 15-year career (1988-2003) as a bank manager at Al-Rasheed, he was appointed Director General of the Department of Administrative and Financial Affairs within the General Secretariat of the Iraqi Council of Ministers (2003-‘05), before spending five years (2005-’09) as Head of the Administration and Finance Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to his arrival in Belgrade, this married father of three daughters held several ambassadorships, serving as Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the Republic of Senegal, the Republic of Slovakia and the Republic of Romania.