Azzam al-Ahmad (Arabic: عزام الأحمد; born 24 November 1947)[1][2][3][4] is a Palestinian politician, economist and diplomat.

Al-Ahmad was the Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to Iraq from 1979 to 1994 and has been a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council since 1989.

In 1968, His father, Najeeb al-Ahmad, was deported across the Jordan River by the Israeli Army after its occupation of the West Bank.

while in exile in Amman after 1967, Najeeb and his family of nine children found fertile grounds for their cause and political activities.

Azzam al-Ahmad graduated from high school and joined the Syrian universities but later moved to Baghdad with the coming of the Ba'ath party to power in Iraq in 1969 as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.