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Finance Minister of Syria

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Ministry of Finance
وزارة المالية
Agency overview
Formed1918
JurisdictionGovernment of Syria
HeadquartersZeky Al Arsouzy St, Damascus
33°31′18″N 36°17′50″E / 33.52167°N 36.29722°E / 33.52167; 36.29722
Minister responsible
Websitesyrianfinance.gov.sy
Map
Interactive map showing the building of the Ministry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance (وزارة المالية, Wizārat al-Māliyah) is a government ministry of Syria.

Responsibilities

The ministry is responsible for the preparation of the state's financial policies, the supervision of their implementation by monitoring and collecting public revenues to the state treasury, the oversight of state expenditures, and the preparation of the state budget.

Alongside this, it is also responsible for managing public debt in cooperation with the Central Bank of Syria.[1]

List of Ministers

MinisterTerm
Said Choucair1918–1920
Fares al-Khoury1920
Hamdi al-Nasr1920–1922
Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid1922–1925
Jalal Zuhdi1925–1926
Shakir al-Shabani1926
Abdul Qadir Al-Azm1926
Hamdi al-Nasr1926–1928
Jamil al-Ulshi1928–1931
Tawfiq Shamia1931–1932
Jamil Mardam1932–1933
Shakir al-Shabani1933–1934
Henri Hindieh1934–1936
Edmond Al-Homsi1936
Shukri al-Quwwatli[2]1936–1938
Lutfi al-Haffar1938
Fayez al-Khoury1939
Muhammad Khalil Mudaris1939
Hosni al-Bitar1939–1941
Jean Sehnaoui1941
Fayez al-Khoury1941–1943
Mustafa al-Shihabi1943
Khalid al-Azm1943–1945
Naim Antaki1945
Khalid al-Azm1945
Naim Antaki1945–1946
Edmond Al-Homsi1946
Said Ghazzi1946–1947
Wehbe Hariri1947–1948
Hassan Jabara1948–1949
Khalid al-Azm[2]1949
Abdul Rahman Al-Azm1949–1950
Hassan Jabara1950
Shakir Alas1950–1951
Abdul Rahman Al-Azm1951
Hassan al-Hakim1951
Shakir Alas1951–1952
Saeed al-Zaeem1952–1953
George Shahin1953–1954
Abdul Rahman Al-Azm1954
Izzat al-Saqal1954
Rizqallah Antaki1954–1955
Lyon Zomria1955
Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad1955–1956
Sabri al-Asali1956
Asad Mohsen1956–1958
Fakhir Alkiali1958
Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad1958–1960
Naaman W. Azhari1961–1962[3]
Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad1963
Mustafa ash-Shamma[4]1963–1964
Abd al-Fattah Bushi[4]1964–1965
Muwaffaq al-Shurbaji[5]1965–1969
Nurallah Nurallah[5]1969–1974
Muhammad al-Sharif[5]1974–1976
Sadiq al-Ayyubi[5]1976–1980
Hamdi al-Saqqa1980–1985
Qahtan al-Sioufi1985–1987
Khalid al-Mahayni[6]1987–2001
Mohammad al-Atrash2001–2003
Mohammad al-Hussein[7]2003–2011
Mohammad al-Jililati[8]2011–2014
Ismael Ismael2014–2016
Maamoun Hamdan[9]2016–2020
Kenan Yaghi[9]2020–2024
Riad Abdul Ra'ouf2024
Mohammed Abazaid2024–2025
Mohammed Yisr Barnieh2025–present

See also

References

  1. "About the Ministry". Syrian Ministry of Finance (in Arabic).
  2. Commins, David (2004). Historical Dictionary of Syria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810849341.
  3. "LAU announces its 2017 commencement honorary degree recipients". LAU News. 29 May 2017.
  4. Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963-66: The Army-Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9780706512663.
  5. Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments. National Foreign Assessment Center. 2003 – via HathiTrust.
  6. "Former finance minister: the actual spending need does not exceed 50 percent of the 2020 budget". CommercialSy.
  7. "Syria gets new cabinet". Al Jazeera. 18 September 2003.
  8. "Syria's Assad forms new government". Al Jazeera. 14 April 2011.
  9. "Challenges facing new names in the Syrian regime's ministries". Enab Baladi. 11 September 2020.