Gary Kent is the director of the all party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan Region, writes a weekly column for the Kurdistani Rudaw media outlet and is writing a book, Choni Kurdistan, about independence. He is also the Deputy Chair of the European Centre for Training and Technology in Erbil, which is setting up an Academy for Enterprise and Management. He holds the Centre for Kurdish Progress award for extraordinary contribution to the Kurdish cause. He has visited Kurdistan and Iraq 26 times since 2006 and writes in a personal capacity.
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