Honorific-Prefix: | HE |
Lamia Assi لمياء عاصي | |
Office: | Minister of Tourism |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister: | Adel Safar |
Term Start: | 14 April 2011 |
Term End: | 23 June 2012 |
Predecessor: | Sa’dalla Agha AlQall’a |
Successor: | Hala Al-Nasser |
Office2: | Minister of Economy and Trade |
President2: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister2: | Muhammad Naji al-Otari |
Term Start2: | 19 January 2010 |
Term End2: | 29 March 2011 |
Predecessor2: | Amer Husni Lutfi |
Successor2: | Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar |
Office3: | Ambassador to Malaysia |
President3: | Bashar al-Assad |
Term Start3: | 2004 |
Term End3: | 2010 |
Predecessor3: | Amer Husni Lutfi |
Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1955 |
Children: | three |
Lamia Assi (Arabic: لمياء عاصي) (born December 27, 1955) became minister of tourism of Syria in 2011. She previously served as the Minister of Economy and Trade and as the Ambassador to Malaysia.
Assi was born on 17 December 1955. She earned a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Damascus, and a master of business administration from the Higher Institute of Business Administration in 2005.[1]
She served as assistant to the minister of finance for technology from 2002-2004, and was the ambassador to Malaysia from 2004 to 2010.[1] In 2010, she was appointed minister of economy and trade for a brief period,[2] and in 2011, she was appointed minister of tourism.[2]
Assi is married and has three children.