Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali (Arabic: محمد فاضل الجمالي) (20 April 1903 – 24 May 1997) was an Iraqi statesman, educator, politician and diplomat, who held important posts in the government of Iraq, during the royal era. Most notably he served as Iraq's prime minister two times and foreign minister from 1946 to 1948 and was also the Director of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Arab Federation Council in 1958.
Born to a Shi'ite family in al-Kadhimiya neighborhood of Baghdad, they were traditionally custodians of Al-Kadhimiya Mosque. He began his political career in 1943. During the 1945 United Nations conference, al-Jamali, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed the Charter of the United Nations on behalf of his country and continued to represent Iraq several times during the United Nations meetings. He played an important role in the independence of Tunisia. After the 14 July Revolution in 1958, al-Jamali was exile to Tunisia, where he served as an advisor to Habib Bourguiba.
