| Office: | Minister of Justice |
| President: | Bashar Assad |
| Successor: | Hisham Al Shaar |
| Term Start: | 16 August 2012 |
| Term End: | 29 March 2017 |
| Birth Place: | Aleppo |
| Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
| Nationality: | Syrian |
Najm Hamad Al Ahmad (Arabic: نجم حمد الأحمد) (born 1969) is a Syrian jurist and justice minister from 2012 until 2017.
Ahmad was born in Aleppo in 1969.[1] [2] He hails from an Alawi family.[3] He holds a bachelor's degree in law, which he received in 1991.[4] He also obtained degrees in general law, administrative law and administrative sciences from the University of Damascus and Ain Shams University in Egypt.[4] He also received a PhD in law from Ain Shams University.[2]
Ahmad served as the chairman of the judicial reform committee formed on 17 May 2011.[2] He also served as deputy justice minister. On 16 August 2012, Ahmad was appointed justice minister by the Syrian president Bashar Assad to the cabinet headed by Wael Al Halaqi.[5] [6] In July 2016 Ahmad was also named as the justice minister in the cabinet led by Imad Khamis.[7] On 29 March 2017 Hisham Al Shaar replaced Ahmad as justice minister in a cabinet reshuffle.[8]
On 16 October 2012, the European Union put him along with other Syrian officials into the list of financial sanctions.[9] The Treasury of the United Kingdom also put him among asset freeze targets the same day.[10]
On 16 May 2013, the United States Treasury Department designated four senior Syrian officials, including Ahmad, for backing "the government of Bashar Assad in suppressing people or involvement in terrorism".[11] [12]