Thamir Abbas Ghadhban (Arabic: ثامر عباس غضبان‎) (born in Karbala, 16 April 1945) is an Iraqi civil servant and politician. Thamir has specialised in the oil industry since the early 1970s. After the war in 2003 he became Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Oil, and in mid of the following year he served as Interim Oil Minister in the interim government headed by interim prime minister Ayad Allawi. In 2005 he became a Parliament member and the head of one of the six committees, his committee was in charge of writing chapter four: Powers of the Federal Authorities in the permanent constitution Constitution of Iraq#Chapter Four: Powers of the Federal Authorities and one of three technocrats to draft Iraq's much debated oil and gas law, which is still waiting to be approved by the parl