Akram Ali Muhammad

Akram Ali Muhammad (اكرم 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 Direcor 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.