Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Alma Mater: | Damascus University |
Residence: | Damascus |
Children: | 3 |
Nationality: | Syrian |
Birth Place: | Latakia, Latakia Governorate, UAR |
Zouhair Khazim | |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Predecessor: | Ali Hammoud |
Primeminister: | Hussein Arnous Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Term Start: | 30 August 2020 |
Zouhair Khazim (ar|زهير خزيم; born 1960) is a Syrian politician who has been Minister of Transport since 2020.[1] [2]
Born in Latakia, holds a diploma in civil engineering from the Soviet Union, worked as an implementation and supervision engineer in the General Establishment for Drinking Water and Sanitation in Latakia.[3]
In 1996, he held the position of branch manager, later central manager in the General Company for Land Reclamation in Aleppo and Assistant Director General of the Military Housing Establishment. He became a Director of Branch 7 Construction in 2008.[1] He was the Director General of the Military Housing Establishment from 2017 until his appointment as Minister of Transport on 30 August 2020.[1]
He is married and has three children.