Iraq's Honest Broker

A former Canadian diplomat will oversee how the billion-dollar reconstruction fund is spent

Published March 23, 2005

One of Canada's most authoritative voices on the Middle East has been officially named as the head of a $1 billion (US) Iraqi reconstruction fund.

Canada assumed the rotating chairmanship of the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) this month, and selected its donor chair to be Michael Bell a former ambassador to Jordan (1987-90), Egypt (1994-98), and two-time head of...

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