Ashwak Najmaddin Abbas Mohammed Jaf, known as Dr Ashwak Jaf, was born in 1972 in Diyala Governorate. She received her pharmacy degree from the College of Medicine at the University of Baghdad, obtained her doctorate in her specialization in 2005, and was an assistant lecturer at the University of Sulaymaniyah. In previous terms, she was a member of the Iraqi Parliament on the list of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

On 6 November 2022, at the fourteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Duhok, Congress members elected her to the Central Committee. She is responsible for the party's fifth branch in Baghdad.

Source:

1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.