Ghassan Hitto | |
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Prime Minister of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Acting | |
In office 18 March 2013 – 14 September 2013 | |
President | Moaz al-Khatib George Sabra (acting) Ahmad al-Jarba |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Ahmad Tu'mah al-Khader |
Personal details | |
Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Damascus, Syria |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Indiana Wesleyan University |
Ghassan Hitto (Arabic: غسان هيتو; born 1963) is a Syrian politician and the first head of an interim government established by the Syrian opposition National Coalition.[1][2] 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.[3] He was elected prime minister on 18 March 2013 by a narrow margin over former Syrian Arab Republic agricultural minister Assad Mustafa.[4] Hitto resigned on 8 July 2013.[5]
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