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Yousif Ismael served as the Director of the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) from 2015 to 2024. Prior to this role, from 2012 to 2015, he was an assistant to Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the governor of the Kirkuk province in Iraq, and managed Dr. Karim’s 2014 electoral campaign. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Ismael was the Assistant to the Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq to the U.S. in Washington, DC.