Issam al-Khalif

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Issam Khaled al-Khalif (born c. 1981) is a Syrian jurist and academic who has served as the President of the Supreme Constitutional Court since July 2026. Born in the Ghab Plain, Hama Governorate, Syria, he earned a law degree from Damascus University in 2005 and a master's degree in Private Law from the University of Aleppo in 2013, before obtaining a Ph.D. in Law from Idlib University in 2023. He began his career as an income controller at the Hama Finance Directorate in 2010 and defected from the Assad regime in 2013. In 2015, he joined Idlib University as a lecturer in the College of Sharia and Law, where he later held several administrative positions. Al-Khalif served as Secretary-General of the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) from 2018 and later as Chairman of the SSG Central Committee for Laws from 2022 to 2024. In 2024, he became President of both the Supreme Committee for the Shura Council Elections and the SSG Central Authority for Oversight and Inspection. During the post...

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