Najm Hamad Al Ahmad (Arabic: نجم حمد الأحمد) (born 1969) is a Syrian jurist and justice minister from 2012 until 2017.
[citation needed] On 16 August 2012, Ahmad was appointed justice minister by the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the cabinet headed by Wael Al Halaqi.
[5][6] In July 2016 Ahmad was also named as the justice minister in the cabinet led by Imad Khamis.
[7] On 29 March 2017 Hisham Al Shaar replaced Ahmad as justice minister in a cabinet reshuffle.
[10] On 16 May 2013, the United States Treasury Department designated four senior Syrian officials, including Ahmad, for backing "the government of Bashar al-Assad in suppressing people or involvement in terrorism".