On Saturday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree appointing Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali to form a new government in Syria, succeeding the former Prime Minister Hussein Arnous.

Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali was born in Damascus in 1969. He holds a degree in civil engineering from the University of Damascus, which he obtained in 1992, and a PhD in engineering economics from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 2000.

Al-Jalali has served as the Minister of Communications and Technology and was a board member of the General Postal Corporation and Chairman of the General Authority for Road Transport. He also worked as a member of the Higher Education Council at the Ministry of Higher Education.

Additionally, al-Jalali is an assistant professor at the University of Damascus. He is married and has three children: two sons and a daughter.