predecessor successor religion birth_place president party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name alma_mater
position established ahmad tu ` mah al-khader sunni islam damascus , syria moaz al-khatib george sabra -lrb- acting -rrb- ahmad al-jarba independent prime and opposition forces acting minister of the national coalition for syrian revolutionary 1963 18 march 2013 ghassan hitto
 14 september 2013 ghassan hitto indiana university-purdue university , indianapolis indiana wesleyan university
ghassan hitto

ghassan hitto -lrb- ; born 1963 -rrb- was the first prime minister of an interim government established by the syrian opposition national coalition .
born in damascus into a kurdish family , he left syria to the u.s. in 1980 , became a naturalized american citizen and worked as an information technology executive and lived in texas until recently .
in late 2012 , he relocated to turkey .
he was elected prime minister on 18 march 2013 by a narrow margin over former syrian arab republic agricultural minister assad mustafa .
hitto resigned on 8 july 2013 .
