Abdelraouf Rawabdeh

Abdelraouf Salem Nahar al-Rawabdeh (عبد الرؤوف الروابدة; born 18 February 1939) was the 32nd Prime Minister of Jordan from 4 March 1999 until 19 June 2000, a leading political figure from the northern city of Irbid in Jordan.

Political experience
In 1983 Al-Rawabdeh became the Mayor of Amman and would serve in that position until 1989. In 1989 he then joined the Jordanian Parliament as a member of the 11th Parliament of Jordan, and again in 1993 and 1997 until 2001 in the 12th and 13th Parliament of Jordan respectively.

On 24 October 2013 he was named President of the Senate. Al-Rawabdeh is the first President of the enlarged Senate, which now has 75 members, where previously there had been 60 members. After his resignation, Al-Rawabdeh was replaced as President of the Senate by Faisal al-Fayez on 25 October 2015.