Qubad Talabani is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in the United States.He is the second son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Qubad grew up in Surrey, United Kingdom with his maternal grandparents, Ibrahim Ahmed, a novelist, poet and a founder of the modern intellectual Kurdish movement and Galawejh Ahmed, (also a novelist). After graduating from High School, Qubad took a keen interest in Engineering, and obtained his Diploma in Motor Vehicle Engineering at Carshalton college, and later obtaining his bachelors degree in Automotive Systems Engineering at Kingston University in Surrey.

Throughout the mid-nineties, Qubad worked on and off as a car-mechanic for a dealership that specialized in Lancia, Suzuki and Maserati vehicles.