Kawkab Sabah al-Daya | |
Office: | Minister of State for Environment Affairs |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister: | Adel Safar |
Term Start: | 14 April 2011 |
Term End: | 23 June 2012 |
Predecessor: | self |
Successor: | incumbent |
Office2: | Minister of State for Environment Affairs |
President2: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister2: | Mohammad Najji Outri |
Term Start2: | 23 April 2009 |
Term End2: | 29 March 2011 |
Successor2: | self |
Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Birth Place: | Banias, Syria |
Alma Mater: | University of Damascus |
Children: | three |
Kawkab Sabah al-Daya is a former Minister of State for Environment Affairs for Syria.
Al-Daya was born in the Banias in 1962. She earned a pharmacy degree and a doctorate from the University of Damascus. She was a professor at the University of Damascus, appointed Associate Minister of Health in 1993, and Director of Health, Environment and Population Bureau in the General Federation of Women. She was appointed the first Minister of State for Environment Affairs on 23 April 2009, the day after Earth Day.[1]
Al-Daya is married and has three children.