Nasir al-Din Muhammad Ahmad Jamil al-Asad (Arabic: ناصر الدين محمد أحمد جميل الأسد, born in 1922 - died on May 15, 2015) was a Jordanian professor, lecturer, author, and first president of the University of Jordan.

[1][2][3] He was born in Aqaba in Jordan in 1922 to a Jordanian father and Lebanese mother.

He studied at Cairo University and graduated with a doctorate degree with an excellent grade in 1955.

He lectured in a number of universities and research institutes in Jordan, Libya, and Egypt and was a member of the Arabic language academies in Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Morocco.

He served as Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1977 to 1978, and headed several academies and councils including the Royal Academy for Research on Islamic Civilization (Aal al-Bayt Foundation), the board of trustees at Al-Isra University in Amman, and the Board of Trustees of the Abdul Majeed Shoman International Award for Jerusalem.