Salameh Hammad

Hammad was born in Amman in 1944. He studied law at the University of Baghdad in Iraq where he obtained a degree in 1969.^[2] He obtained a master's degree from the Sorbonne University in 1976.^[1]

He oversaw the 1989 general elections as secretary-general of the Interior Ministry. In 1990, while in the same position, he dealt with the refugee flux from Kuwait to Jordan, which was caused by the Gulf War.^[3][4] Hammad was Minister of the Interior from 1993 to 1995 and again from 8 January 1995 to 2 April 1996.^[2][1]

He was again appointed as Interior Minister on 19 May 2015 after the resignation of Hussein Al-Majali two days earlier.^[2] On 19 April 2016 he was replaced by Mazen Qadi.^[5][6] When Abdullah Ensour was replaced as prime minister in June 2016 by Hani Al-Mulki, Hammad returned as Interior Minister.^[7] In a cabinet reshuffle on 28 September 2016 Hammad retained his position.^[8] In another cabinet reshuffle, Hammad was replaced by Ghaleb Zu'bi on 15 January 2017.^[9][10]

Hammad once more returned as Minister of Interior on 9 May 2019, when he was appointed to replace Samir Mubaidin in a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Omar Razzaz.^[11][12] This happened at the same time as a change of the chiefs of the security agencies in Jordan.^[13] With the formation of Bisher Al-Khasawneh's Cabinet he was replaced by Tawfiq Al Halalmeh on 12 October 2020.^[14]

Hammad became member of the 30th Senate of Jordan.^[1]

Hammad has been awarded Jordan's Order of Independence (second class), and the Order of the Star of Jordan (second class).^[1]