Yousef Suleiman al-Ahmad | |
Office: | Minister of State |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Primeminister: | Adel Safar |
Term Start: | 14 April 2011 |
Term End: | 2012 |
Party: | Syrian Communist Party |
Birth Place: | Hasaka |
Alma Mater: | University of Damascus |
Yousef Suleiman al Ahmad (born 1956) is a Syrian economist and politician. He is the former minister of state.
Ahmad was born in Hasaka in 1956.[1] He earned a degree in economics from the University of Damascus in 1990, and a degree from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow.
Ahmad was a member of the People's Assembly in 1994, and deputy head of the financial laws committee. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Syrian Communist Party since 1995. He served as minister of state in charge of administrative development affairs.[1] [2]
The UK government included Ahmad in the list of Syrian individuals on 26 March 2013 whose assets were frozen.[1]