Ali Abdel-Amir Allawi, a wealthy businessman, was previously a consultant to the World Bank and heads a London-based investment company, Pan-Arab. He was elected to Parliament on the United Iraqi Alliance. His uncle on his mother's side is deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi. On his father's side, he is a cousin of outgoing interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Ali Allawi, born in 1947, left Iraq in 1956 for Britain, where he went to high school. He graduated from MIT with a degree in engineering and received an economics degree from Harvard. His father was health minister during Iraq's monarchy, which was overthrown in 1958.