Muhammad Amer Mardini

Muhammad Amer Mardini was born in Damascus in 1959.^[1] He earned a PhD in pharmaceutical quality control from Humboldt University in East Germany in 1988.^[1] He was a professor of pharmaceutics at al-Andalus University and the University of Damascus.^[1] At the time of his second appointment to government he was the rector of al-Andalus University.^[1]

Mardini was named the minister of education on August 27, 2014, in the Second Wael al-Halqi government.^[2] During this time Mardini and Bashar al-Assad issued reforms to B.A. and M.A. programs.^[3] He also worked to improve cooperation between Syrian and Iranian medical universities.^[4] Mardini, along with the rest of the Syrian government, would be placed under sanctions due to the violent suppression of the Syrian people during the Syrian Civil War^[2]

On August 8, 2023, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Decree No. 206 for 2023 which again named Mardini the minister of education.^[1] He was sworn in on August 9 by Assad before Hussein Arnous.^[5]