Imad Moustapha

Imad Moustapha (عماد مصطفى; born 11 March 1959) is a former Syrian Ambassador to China and the United States.

Biography
Imad Moustapha was born in Aleppo on 11 March 1952.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology (IT) at the University of Damascus, and Secretary General of the Arab School on Science and Technology. He is a co-founder of the Network of Syrian Scientists, Technologists and Innovators Abroad (NOSSTIA). This organization was involved in establishing Meedan, "a non-profit social technology company which aims to increase cross-language interaction on the web, with particular emphasis on translation and aggregation services in Arabic and English."

Media
Imad Moustapha regularly writes in the print media and appears on television, representing the Syrian government position. He has also occasionally appeared at public lectures, think-tanks, and world-affairs councils.

Personal
His wide range of interests include: globalization, cultural identities, social and economic impacts of the Internet, and Western classical music.

Allegations of espionage
On 25 June 2011, the Washington Bureau chief of Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported in NOW Lebanon that Ambassador Mustapha was engaged in various espionage activities, as well as threats to Syrians living in the US. Facing possible repercussions from an FBI investigation into the matter, Mustapha moved to China in February 2012. According to CNN political analyst Josh Rogin in 2017, before Mustapha departed for Beijing he had left in place a network of friends, Syrian Americans and others who had close ties to the regime and would lobby on Bashar al-Assad's behalf.