Ministry of Finance (Syria)

Ministry of Finance
وزارة المالية
Agency overview
Formed	1918
Jurisdiction	Government of Syria
Headquarters	Damascus
Minister responsible	Riyad Abdel Raouf;
Website	syrianfinance.gov.sy

The Ministry of Finance is a department of the Syrian Government.

Responsibilities

It is a ministry that deals with the preparation of the state's financial policies, the supervision of their implementation by monitoring and collecting public revenues to the state treasury, the supervision of the payment of state expenditures and organizations, and the preparation of the state budget. He is also responsible for managing public debt in cooperation with the Central Bank of Syria. ^[1]

Ministers

Said Choucair, 1918-1920
Fares al-Khoury, 1920
Hamdi Al-Nasr, 1920-1922
Mohammed Ali Bey al-Abed, 1922-1925
Jalal Zuhdi, 1925-1926
Shaker Nemat 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
Hinri Hindia, 1934-1936
Edmond Al-Homsi, 1936
Shukri al-Quwwatli,^[2] 1936-1938
Lutfi al-Haffar, 1938
Fayez al-Khoury, 1939-1939
Muhammad Khalil Mudaris, 1939
Hosni Al-Bitar, 1939-1941
Nin 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
Abdel Wahab Homed, 1958-1960
Naaman W. AZHARI, 1961-1962^[3]
Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 1963
Mustafa ash-Shamma, 1963-1964^[4]
Abd al-Fattah Bushi, 1964-1965^[4]
Muwaffaq al-Shurbaji,^[5] 1965-1969
Nurallah Nurallah,^[5] 1969-1974
Muhammad al-Sharif,^[6] 1974-1976
Sadiq al-Ayyubi,^[7] 1976-1980
Hamdi al-Saqqa, 1980-1985
Qahtan Al-Sioufi, 1985-1987
Khalid al-Mahayni,^[8] 1987-2001
Mohammad al-Atrash, 2001-2003
Mohammad al-Hussein,^[9] 2003-2011
Mohammad al Jililati,^[10] 2011-2014
Ismael Ismael, 2014-2016
Maamoun Hamdan,^[11] 2016-2020
Kenan Yaghi,^[11] 2020-2024
Riyad Abdel Raouf, 2024-incumbent

References

^ "Syrian Ministry of Finance".
^ ^a ^b "Historical Dictionary of Syria - PDF Free Download". epdf.pub.
^ "LAU announces its 2017 commencement honorary degree recipients | LAU News". 29 May 2017.
^ ^a ^b Rabinovic, Itamar (March 14, 1972). Syria Under the BaÊ»th, 1963-66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9780706512663 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1969Mar-June,Aug,Oct-Dec. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435065185043 – via HathiTrust.
^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1976Jan-June. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435024020000 – via HathiTrust.
^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1976:Oct.-Dec. 2003. hdl:2027/uiug.30112083084100 – via HathiTrust.
^ "Former finance minister: the actual spending need does not exceed 50 percent of the 2020 budget .. The deficit is unrealistic". commercialsy.com.
^ "Syria gets new cabinet". www.aljazeera.com.
^ "Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
^ ^a ^b "Challenges facing new names in the Syrian regime's ministries… Will they succeed?". Enab Baladi. September 11, 2020.

Ministry of Finance (Syria)

Responsibilities

Ministers

References

See also