Ali Ghalib Baban (Arabic: علي غالب بابان‎) is the former Iraqi Minister of Planning and Development Co-operation in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. A Sunni Kurd, he was elected to the National Assembly of Iraq in December 2005 on the Iraqi Accord Front coalition as a member of the Sunni Arab-majority Iraqi Islamic Party and led the negotiations with Maliki for the Iraqi Accord Front Before his election he was the editor of the weekly Arabic language newspaper of the Iraqi Islamic Party, . He is of Kurdish origin.