Darem Tabbaa

Darem Tabbaa (دارم الطباع) (born 1958) is a Syrian veterinarian and politician. He served as Education Minister from August 2020 until August 2023.

Education
He graduated from the faculty of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Al Baath University as a veterinarian in 1981.

He obtained a PhD in Virology, Epidemiology and Public Health from the Faculty of veterinary medicine of the University of Leipzig in 1988. And obtained a second PhD in Tropical and Subtropical Animal Hygiene from the University of Göttingen in 1998.

Political career
He has been an accredited expert at the Athens World Health Organization (WHO) Center for Health and Environmental Science Education for more than a quarter of a century.

He has occupied many scientific positions as a head of section, vice –dean and a dean of college.

He runs many international Syrian projects and in 2015 he became a Director of the National Center for Educational Curriculum Development and remained until 2019 and later was named as Assistant Minister of Education.

Academic career

 * 1981-1983 Officer at the central veterinary laboratory in Damascus, for bacterial diagnosis of animal diseases, vaccine production, and working in private clinic for large animals in the Ghota region around Damascus.
 * 1983-1988 Aspirant at the University of Leipzig/ Germany
 * 1988-1990 Lecturer at the faculty vet medicine of Al Baath university, Hama/ Syria
 * 1990-1994 Docent at the faculty of veterinary medicine of Al Baath university Homs for animal health.
 * 1994-1999: Associate professor of animal hygiene at the faculty of Veterinary medicine Hama/ Syria
 * 1989-present : Director of the research laboratory of the faculty of veterinary medicine Hama/ Syria
 * 1993-present : Director of the project for animal protection in Syria in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad in London, UK
 * 1995-2000: Vice -dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine Hama/Syria.
 * 2005-2007 Dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine Hama/Syria
 * 1991-present: Member at the Editing board of the scientific journal of Al Baath University.
 * 1990-present: Member at the executive board of the international society of animal hygiene
 * 1989-present: Moderator for project planning with the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GIZ) through OOPP (Objective Oriented Project Planning)
 * 1999 : Professor of veterinary public health and animal hygiene