Osama Saad Hammad Saleh[1] (Arabic: أسامة حماد; born 1979)[2] is a Libyan politician.

During that period, Libyans did not know Osama Hammad yet, but he emerged when he returned again to Tripoli after Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the Government of National Accord, which came at the time through an agreement signed by the parties to the Libyan conflict in Moroccan Skhirat under UN auspices on 17 December 2015, decided to assign him Minister of Finance.

That position of Minister Hammad caused Fayez al-Sarraj to dismiss him in October 2018 and appoint Faraj Boumtari, who hails from the same city (Ajdabiya), in his place.

At that time, Hammad received that decision with open arms, as he issued a statement in which he said, “The job is an assignment, not an honor, as I strived hard to provide something for the country and carry out reform.” At the end of his statement, he presented “an apology to the Libyan people for any shortcoming or failure, and that he wishes success and repayment to Faraj Boumtari, the new Minister of Finance.” In February 2022, the House of Representatives assigned Fathi Bashagha to form a new government instead of the national unity government headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, who was exempted by Parliament and still clings to power.

He also previously filed complaints with Libya's attorney general about financial corruption in Dbeibeh's government, most recently two months ago when the government in Tripoli allegedly prevented budgetary funds from being allocated to children with cancer in Benghazi, nine of whom died as a result of delayed treatment in Jordan.