Ahmed Al-Qadri | |
Office: | Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform |
Term Start: | 9 February 2013 |
Term End: | 30 August 2020 |
Predecessor: | Subhi Ahmed Abdullah |
Successor: | Mohammed Hassan Qatana |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister: | Wael Nader al-Halqi Imad Khamis |
Birth Date: | 1956 |
Birth Place: | Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria |
Death Place: | Damascus, Syria |
Party: | Ba'ath Party |
Profession: | Agricultural engineer |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Ahmed Al-Qadri (ar|أحمد القادري; 1956 – 3 September 2020) was a Syrian agricultural engineer and politician. He held the position of Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform from February 2013 until August 2020 within the Council of Ministers, or cabinet, of Prime Ministers Wael Nader al-Halqi and Imad Khamis.
Al-Qadri died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Syria, at Al Assad University Hospital in Damascus on 3 September 2020. He was the first Syrian government official to die from COVID-19 during the pandemic in Syria.[1]