Ministry of Finance (Syria)
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| Formed | 1918 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Syria |
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| Website | syrianfinance |
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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
| Minister | Term |
|---|---|
| Said Choucair | 1918–1920 |
| Fares al-Khoury | 1920 |
| Hamdi al-Nasr | 1920–1922 |
| Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid | 1922–1925 |
| Jalal Zuhdi | 1925–1926 |
| Shakir al-Shabani | 1926 |
| Abdul Qadir Al-Azm | 1926 |
| Hamdi al-Nasr | 1926–1928 |
| Jamil al-Ulshi | 1928–1931 |
| Tawfiq Shamia | 1931–1932 |
| Jamil Mardam | 1932–1933 |
| Shakir al-Shabani | 1933–1934 |
| Henri Hindieh | 1934–1936 |
| Edmond Al-Homsi | 1936 |
| Shukri al-Quwwatli[2] | 1936–1938 |
| Lutfi al-Haffar | 1938 |
| Fayez al-Khoury | 1939 |
| Muhammad Khalil Mudaris | 1939 |
| Hosni al-Bitar | 1939–1941 |
| Jean Sehnaoui | 1941 |
| Fayez al-Khoury | 1941–1943 |
| Mustafa al-Shihabi | 1943 |
| Khalid al-Azm | 1943–1945 |
| Naim Antaki | 1945 |
| Khalid al-Azm | 1945 |
| Naim Antaki | 1945–1946 |
| Edmond Al-Homsi | 1946 |
| Said Ghazzi | 1946–1947 |
| Wehbe Hariri | 1947–1948 |
| Hassan Jabara | 1948–1949 |
| Khalid al-Azm[2] | 1949 |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Azm | 1949–1950 |
| Hassan Jabara | 1950 |
| Shakir Alas | 1950–1951 |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Azm | 1951 |
| Hassan al-Hakim | 1951 |
| Shakir Alas | 1951–1952 |
| Saeed al-Zaeem | 1952–1953 |
| George Shahin | 1953–1954 |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Azm | 1954 |
| Izzat al-Saqal | 1954 |
| Rizqallah Antaki | 1954–1955 |
| Lyon Zomria | 1955 |
| Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad | 1955–1956 |
| Sabri al-Asali | 1956 |
| Asad Mohsen | 1956–1958 |
| Fakhir Alkiali | 1958 |
| Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad | 1958–1960 |
| Naaman W. Azhari | 1961–1962[3] |
| Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad | 1963 |
| 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-Saqqa | 1980–1985 |
| Qahtan al-Sioufi | 1985–1987 |
| Khalid al-Mahayni[6] | 1987–2001 |
| Mohammad al-Atrash | 2001–2003 |
| Mohammad al-Hussein[7] | 2003–2011 |
| Mohammad al-Jililati[8] | 2011–2014 |
| Ismael Ismael | 2014–2016 |
| Maamoun Hamdan[9] | 2016–2020 |
| Kenan Yaghi[9] | 2020–2024 |
| Riad Abdul Ra'ouf | 2024 |
| Mohammed Abazaid | 2024–2025 |
| Mohammed Yisr Barnieh | 2025–present |
See also
References
- ↑ "About the Ministry". Syrian Ministry of Finance (in Arabic).
- 1 2 Commins, David (2004). Historical Dictionary of Syria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810849341.
- ↑ "LAU announces its 2017 commencement honorary degree recipients". LAU News. 29 May 2017.
- 1 2 Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963-66: The Army-Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9780706512663.
- 1 2 3 4 Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments. National Foreign Assessment Center. 2003 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ "Former finance minister: the actual spending need does not exceed 50 percent of the 2020 budget". CommercialSy.
- ↑ "Syria gets new cabinet". Al Jazeera. 18 September 2003.
- ↑ "Syria's Assad forms new government". Al Jazeera. 14 April 2011.
- 1 2 "Challenges facing new names in the Syrian regime's ministries". Enab Baladi. 11 September 2020.
