| Ahmad Hassan | |
| Office: | Minister of Information |
| Primeminister: | Mohammad Naji Al Otari |
| President: | Bashar Assad |
| Term Start: | 2003 |
| Term End: | 4 October 2004 |
| Predecessor: | Adnan Omran |
| Successor: | Mahdi Dakhlallah |
| Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Ahmad Hassan (born 1947) is a Syrian diplomat and politician who served as information minister from 2003 to 2004.
Hassan hails from an Alawi family based in Tartous. He was born, in 1947, in a village near Lattakia and later moved to Baniyas.
Hassan served as the head of the first Baathist school in the 1960s. He is a member of Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and close to former vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam.[1] He was also an auxiliary-member of the National Leadership until 1984 when then president Hafez Assad removed the Khaddam faction from the Leadership.[1]
Hassan served as Syria's ambassador to Iran for a long time since the early 1990s until being replaced by Hamid Hassan in May 2003.[2] [3] He was appointed information minister to the Syrian cabinet in 2003 and replaced Adnan Omran in the post.[4] Hassan's term ended in October 2004, and he was succeeded by Mahdi Dakhlallah as information minister.[5] [6]