predecessor successor birth_place president party office primeminister birth_date term_start birthname article_title term_end name alma_mater
mohammed al imadi amer hosni lotfi homs bashar al-assad -lsb- independent -rsb- minister of economy and trade muhammad mustafa mero mohammad naji al otari 1942 december 2001 ghassan sami el-jandali el-rıfai ghassan al-rifai
 october 2004 ghassan el-rifai غسان الرفاعي cairo university american university of cairo
ghassan al-rifai

ghassan el-rıfai -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 1942 -rrb- is a leading syrian economist who worked at the world bank for a long time and served as syria 's minister of economy and trade from december 2001 to october 2004 .
