He was born in 1941 in #Sulaymaniyah#.
He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Sulaymaniyah.
In 1963, he graduated from the College of Commerce and Economics at Baghdad University.
In 1965, he graduated from the Reserve Officers' College in Baghdad.
A political prisoner for Kurdish political activities in 1962 in Khalf al-Sada prison in Baghdad when he was a student.
In 1964, he was employed as an employee in the Sulaymaniyah Post Office, then nominated for the directorate of the Sulaymaniyah Commercial Bank, then transferred to Sulaymaniyah University, and in 1971 was appointed the Administrative Director of Sulaymaniyah University.
He participated in the Aylul Revolution from 1974 to 1975.
After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he was exiled to Baghdad for more than five years.
He returned to Sulaymaniyah in the 1980s and worked in the General Office of Sharazoor and the General Directorate of Agriculture of Sulaymaniyah until the 1991 uprising.
After the formation of the first Kurdistan government, he was appointed as a financial and economic advisor in the Ministry of Finance and Economy, and until 2000, he was appointed as the deputy minister of finance and economy of the Kurdistan Regional Government for three years.
He was appointed head of the Financial Supervision Bureau in 2002, serving as a minister for more than nine years. He retired in early 2011 at his own request.
During his two positions in the Ministry of Finance and the Supervisory Bureau, he twice officially requested a reduction in his salary due to the poor financial situation of the government. He has offered his house to Ministry of Health which is worth more than 600,000 USD so that after his death they make it a health center for other people. He also donated the land to the Sulaymaniyah Financial Supervision Bureau and sold it for more than 70 million dinars. The money was deposited in the bank as a form of Nobel Prize to pay the annual interest to qualified employees. The main objective is to encourage the integrity, loyalty, and morality of the Kurdish individual.
It is worth mentioning that due to the necessary affairs of the Financial Supervision Bureau to defend and protect public property, the head of the Bureau and employees have faced many threats and defamation in the media through corrupt and looters of the nation's property.
All this information is preserved in the Financial Supervision Bureau's explanatory book, in Volumes I and II of the documents, and are published at length.
Jalal Sam Agha is the only minister who has been honored by the Kurdistan Regional Government after his retirement. Mr. Emad Ahmad, former Deputy Prime Minister, and several senior government officials presented the honor at his home. With pleasure in
#28-12-2014# Kurdish club ( Media ) honored him for the second time in Netherlands.