Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali is a Syrian politician and engineer. He served as Minister of Communications and Technology in 2014, and worked as an assistant professor at Damascus University before heading the Syrian Private University in 2023. He was appointed Prime Minister in September 2024, becoming the first figure from the Golan to hold this position since the era of Hafez al-Assad.
Birth and upbringing
Mohammed Ghazi Al-Jalali was born in 1969 in the capital. Syrian DamascusHe is originally from the villages of Golan Occupied Syrian.
Married with 3 children, 2 boys and 1 girl.
Study and scientific formation
Al-Jalali obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Damascus University in 1992, and then a Postgraduate Diploma in Civil Engineering from the same university in 1994.
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He joined Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1997 and graduated with a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering. He completed his PhD there in 2000, specializing in Engineering Economics.
Main functions and responsibilities
He was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Corporation for Road Transport from 2005 to 2013, and a member of the Higher Education Council at the Ministry of Higher Education in 2008.
Al-Jalali then worked as an assistant to the Minister of Communications and Technology in 2008, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Postal Corporation during the same period, before assuming the position of Minister of Communications and Technology from 2014 to 2016.
He chaired the Board of Trustees of the Arab Quality Makers Group in 2019, and was Vice Chairman of the Arab Advisory Council for Electronic Scientific Services.
He worked as an assistant professor and head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Yarmouk Private University, and an assistant professor at Damascus University, before assuming the presidency of the Syrian Private University in 2023.
The Syrian President issued Bashar al-Assad A decree was issued in which Al-Jalali was tasked with forming his government, succeeding former Prime Minister Hussein Arnous, on September 14, 2024, and thus he became the first political figure from the Golan to be tasked with forming the Syrian government since the era of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
Al-Jalali was subjected to sanctions from European Union 2014 for his “participation in the violent repression carried out by the regime against the civilian population.”
