organizational structure of the hashd

National Leadership

Chairman/President of the Comission
- Termed chairman until sep 17, 2019
- can be drawn from anywhere, iraqi prime minister canchoose whoever and can delegate whatever powers
- similar to a civilian minister
Chairman/President’s office
- Office has never had a large staff
- Longtime chair faleh al-fayyad admits he does not closely control it
- likely to wield day to day operational authority
Deputy Chairs’ Office
- executive order 85 (2018) specifies two deputy/vice chairs
- held by abu mahdi al-muhandis until his death
- executive order 331 (2019) nominally dissolves this
Chief of Staff’s office
- minimal under muhands
- 331 restores this as one of the top posts
Assistant Chairs’ office
- 331 envisions assistant chairs for
  - tribal affairs (currently held by thamir al-tamimi)
  - fighter affairs (currently ali shakir al-khafaf)
  - administration (currently hamid al-shatri)

Administrate affairs (currently sultan al-musawi)
Financial affairs (currently hussein ismail khalil)
Security directorate (currently abu zainab al-lami/hussein falal aziz al-lami
- monitors discipline and security
- also developing into internal affairs force with intelligence and special forces capabilities
Office of inspector general (currently abu ali al-basri/adnan ibrahim al-najjar)
Religious guidance directorate (currently muhammad al-haidari)
- one of the first directorates
- offers classes on literacy and computer/smartphones
Planning and budgeting directorate (currently haider al-furaiji
- currently very small and limited
Others
- Legal
- Verification and Oversight
- Education
- Public Relations (currently done by the Mobilization Directorate lead by sheikh abdul rahman al-kakhimi)
- Media (currently muhannad al-aqabi)
  - part of hte War Media Team
- Spokesman (not a formal department, currently abdul hadi al-darraji)