Ghaleb Zaki Barakat (20 September 1927 – 6 August 2014) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat.
He served as Minister of Tourism and Antiquities between 1967 and 1972 and was later posted as a diplomat to several United Nations institutions and agencies.
[1] He studied economics and trade at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon,[2] graduating with honours in 1949.
In 1980 he became special envoy of the United Nations agency World Tourism Organization.
In 1985 he ended his work for those agencies and moved on to the International Labour Organization where he became Assistant Director General for activities in the Arab region until 1990.