Akram Ali Muhammad

Akram Ali Muhammad
أكرم علي محمد
Governor of As-Suwayda Governorate
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 May 2024
President	Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister	Hussein Arnous
Preceded by	Bassam Mamdouh Parsik
Deputy Director of General Intelligence Directorate
In office 7 July 2019 – 2021
President	Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister	Imad Khamis Hussein Arnous
Preceded by	Zouheir Hamad
Personal details
Born	1962 (age 61–62) Hadidah, Homs Governorate, Syria
Political party	Ba'ath Party
Children	3
Residence	Damascus
Alma mater	Institute of Security Sciences
Profession	Military officer, Politician
Military service
Allegiance	Ba'athist Syria
Branch/service	Syrian Arab Army
Years of service	1985–2021
Rank	Major General
Unit	Special Tasks Regiment
Battles/wars	Syrian civil war

Akram Ali Muhammad (Arabic: أكرم علي محمد; born 1962) is a former Syrian security officer and current Governor of As-Suwayda Governorate since 2024. Until 2021, he was the Deputy Director of Syrian General Intelligence Directorate and a close adviser to President Bashar al-Assad.

Career

Akram Ali Muhammad was born in the town of Hadidah, Homs Governorate in 1962. He obtained a law degree in 1985. He followed a senior leadership course and several courses in management at the Institute of Security Sciences between 1986 and 1990.

Since the 1990s, he served in several military positions. In 2009, he served as head of the State Security Branch in Aleppo with the rank of brigadier general, and remained in his position until the beginning of 2013. Later, he was appointed as head of the State Security Branch in Tartus in 2016, and was promoted in early 2019 to the rank of Major General to be assigned the task of First Deputy Director of the General Intelligence Directorate.

He is a retired major general and one of the most prominent officers of the General Intelligence Directorate. He is married and has three children.