Atheel al-Nujaifi is an Iraqi politician. He served as the Governor of Nineveh Governorate from April 2009 until May 2015.

Nineveh Governorate is a governorate in northern Iraq. It has an area of 37,323 km2 and a population of 4,261,980 people as of 2024. Its largest city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across