Nawshirwan Mustafa (22 December 1944[1] – 19 March 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician. He served as the General Coordinator (رێکخەری گشتی / rêkxerî giştî) of the Movement for Change (Kurdish: Bizûtinewey Gorran بزووتنەوەی گۆڕان) from 2009 until his death in 2017. He served as the leader of the official opposition in the Kurdistan Region.[2] He was born in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Mistafa died in Sulaymaniyah due to lung cancer on 19 May 2017 at the age of 72.[3]