| Adel Safar | |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Office: | Prime Minister of Syria |
| President: | Bashar al-Assad |
| Term Start: | 14 April 2011 |
| Term End: | 23 June 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Muhammad Naji al-Otari |
| Successor: | Riyad Farid Hijab |
| Office1: | Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform |
| Primeminister1: | Muhammad Naji al-Otari |
| Term Start1: | 13 September 2003 |
| Term End1: | 14 April 2011 |
| Predecessor1: | Nabah Jabiri |
| Successor1: | Riyad Farid Hijab |
| Birth Place: | Damascus, Syria |
| Party: | Ba'ath Party |
| Otherparty: | National Progressive Front |
| Cabinet: | Safar |
| Alma Mater: | Damascus University Superior National School of Agronomy and Food Industries |
Adel Safar (Arabic: عادل سفر|ʿĀdil Safar, born 1953) is a Syrian politician and academic, who served as Prime Minister of Syria from 14 April 2011 to 23 June 2012. His government was dissolved by Bashar al-Assad as a result of the Syrian parliamentary election in 2012. He was Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform from 2003 to 2011.
Safar was born in the Damascus countryside in Syria to a Sunni Muslim family. He earned a degree in Agronomy from the University of Damascus in 1977, a Diploma from the National School of Agronomy and Food Industries (ENSAIA) in Nancy, France in 1983, and a PhD in Biotechnology from ENSAIA in 1987.[1]
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Safar is also a member of the Economic Committee and a member of the High Council for Investment. He has been a member of the Ba'ath Party since 1990.[1]
In September 2003, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform in the cabinet of Muhammad Naji al-Otari. On 29 March 2011, he resigned, along with the rest of the Cabinet, at the request ofPresident Bashar al-Assad.
Safar is married with four children.[2]