| Hussein Hajj Hassan | |
| Office: | Minister of Industry |
| Primeminister: | Tammam Salam Saad Hariri |
| Predecessor: | Panos Manjian |
| Successor: | Wael Abou Faour |
| Term Start: | 15 February 2014 |
| Term End: | 31 January 2019 |
| Office2: | Minister of Agriculture |
| Primeminister2: | Saad Hariri Najib Mikati |
| Predecessor2: | Elias Skaff |
| Successor2: | Akram Chehayeb |
| Term Start2: | 9 November 2009 |
| Term End2: | 15 February 2014 |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon |
| Party: | Hezbollah |
| Alma Mater: | University of Orléans |
| Nationality: | Lebanese |
| Native Name: | حسين الحاج حسن |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
Hussein Hajj Hassan (Arabic: حسين الحاج حسن; born 1960) is a Lebanese politician and minister of industry.
Hajj Hassan was born into a Shia family in the Beqaa Valley in 1960. He holds a PhD in molecular biophysical chemistry, which he received from the University of Orléans, France in 1987.
Hajj Hassan is a member of the Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah.[1] He ran on the latter's electoral list in Lebanon's 1996 general election and was elected MP of the Beqaa's Baalbeck/Hermel constituency. In May 1998, he argued that although Islamic state is an ideal solution, Hezbollah is aware of its inapplicability in Lebanon.[2]
He was reelected in the 2000, 2005 and 2009 polls.[3] [4] In 2009, he was among Hezbollah's 11 members of parliament.[5] In June 2009, he met with the then European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Beirut, representing Hezbollah.[5] From 2000 to 2005 he led the parliamentary commission on agriculture and tourism. He is part of the "Loyalty to the Resistance", an opposition parliamentary bloc.[6]
He was named on 9 November 2009 minister of agriculture in Saad Hariri's national unity government.[7] In January 2011, he and other two ministers, Gebran Bassil and Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, resigned from the cabinet, leading to the collapse of Hariri government.[8]
He was appointed to Najib Mikati's cabinet again as a minister of agriculture in June 2011.[9]