Mohammad al Jililati

Mohammad al Jililati
Finance Minister of Syria
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 April 2011
President	Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister	Adel Safar
Preceded by	Mohammed al-Hussein
Executive Director of the Damascus Stock Exchange
In office February 2009 – 14 April 2011?
Personal details
Born	1945 (age 65–66) Damascus
Political party	Ba'ath Party
Alma mater	University of Damascus

Mohammad al Jillati (born 1945) is a Syrian economist and financial expert, serving as the Minister of Finance since April 2011.^[1]

Early life, education and career

Al-Jillati was born in Damascus in 1945. He earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Damascus in 1967, and a Ph.D. in economics and finance from the former Soviet Union in 1975. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Damascus University since 1975 and Chairman of the Accounting Department where for ten years, he participated in several committees of government economic reform plans in the public sector, in addition to the supervision of many doctoral dissertations.

He served as chairman of the Society of Chartered Accountants in Syria for four years and Vice Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Securities Commission and the Syrian financial markets from 2005-2009. He was Executive Director of the Damascus Stock Exchange from the establishment of the market in February 2009 to date.

Jalilati has extensive experience in financial and accounting work, which is a major economic drain in Syria.

Cabinet of Syria

In September 2003, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Adel Safar.

Personal life

Al-Jillati is married with 5 children.

See also

• Cabinet of Syria
• Politics of Syria

References

1. ^ Syria: President Bashar al-Assad forms new government, 'BBC News, 14 April 2011

• Minister of Finance Mohammad al-Jleilati, SANA
• Biography of the new Syrian government 2011 - the names and lives of government ministers, Syria FM, 17 April 2011
• Syria’s New Government – Analysis, Joshua Landis, Eurasia Review, 17 April 2011

External links

• Ministry of Finance official government website

Political offices
Preceded by Mohammed al-Hussein	Finance Minister of Syria 2011–present	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Al-Jililati, Mohammad
Alternative names
Short description	Finance Minister of Syria
Date of birth	1945
Place of birth	Damascus, Syria
Date of death
Place of death