A Shia Muslim and electronic consultant engineer by training with a PhD degree from Manchester, England, al-Abadi is half-Lebanese and lived in exile during the time of Saddam Hussein in London.
A Shia Muslim and electronic consultant engineer by training with a PhD degree from Manchester university, England in 1980, and a BSc degree from Baghdad University in Electrical engineering in 1975. Al-Abadi is half-Lebanese and lived in exile during the time of Saddam Hussein in London.