Dlawer Ala'Aldeen (born 1960) ?????? ????????? ?????????, is the Founding President of the Middle East Research Institute, a policy-research institute, based in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
He is a former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Kurdistan Regional Government (2009-2012) and former professor of Medicine at the University of Nottingham in the UK..
His current focus is on policy research in the fields of good governance, rule of law, national security, governance reform and promotion of human rights.