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Adel Safar

Export controlled · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Adel Safar is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	ADIL SAFR · Adel Safar · Adil Sefer · SAFAR, Adel; SAFR, Adil · Адель Сафар · 7 more...				[sources]
Other name	Adel Ahmad SAFAR · Adil Ahmad Safar · Adil SAFR · Adil Safar · SAFR, Adil · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	阿德尔·萨法尔				[sources]
Birth date	1953-02-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Damascus · Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Syria				[sources]
Citizenship	Syria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	ADIL · Adel				[sources]
Last name	SAFR · Safar				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q353713				[sources]
Position	Minister of Agriculture of the Syrian Arab Republic (2003-2011) · Prime Minister of Syria (2011-2012)				[sources]
Education	Damascus University · École nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaires				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-12	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2022-04-27

Descriptions

Last known position: President of the Yarmouk Private university in Syria. Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic from April 2011 to June 2012. Minister of Agriculture between 2003 and 2011.

— Australian Sanctions Consolidated List, 2024-02-20

(also ADIL SAFR)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

(also ADEL SAFAR)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

64th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-10-19

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United States	TREAS-OFAC		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Agriculture of the Syrian Arab Republic	2003-09-13	2011-04-14

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories379,756

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Taiwan Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List9,823

Entities subject to export restrictions due to concerns about the end-use or end-users, particularly relating to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or other military applications.

Taiwan · MOEA

Australian Sanctions Consolidated List4,698

The Consolidated List is a list of all persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions under Australian sanctions law

Australia · DFAT

US SAM Procurement Exclusions105,493

A database of suppliers who have been excluded from participating in US federal procurement.

United States · GSA

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List5,166

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,656

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,839

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata336,846

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: usgsa-s4mr3rfzd · ca-sema-2-3-sy-adel-safar · ofac-12737 · ca-sema-syria-2-3 · au-dfat-2234-adel-safar · tw-shtc-d1ce558c791803bb3896b60b4a9744611d1ff52c · ca-sema-fb29a69c32b59ba1bdb979f79ea548a3a9f45070 · usgsa-s4mr3rfzf

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