Ghassan Hitto (Arabic: غسان هيتو; born 1963) is a Syrian businessman, NGO executive and politician.

[1][2] Born in Damascus into a Kurdish family, he left Syria to the U.S. in 1980, became a naturalized American citizen and worked as an information technology executive and lived in Texas until the Syrian civil war.

[5] Hitto graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in 1989 with degrees in mathematics and computer science.

[3][6] Hitto is a former businessman who has lived in the United States for decades, most recently in Murphy, Texas.

[4] He has worked in the technology sector and supported the private school Brighter Horizons Academy[14] founded in 1989 by the Islamic Services Foundation (ISF).