Azmi Mahafzah
Profile
Azmi Mahafzah is a Jordanian politician and academic currently serving as the Minister of Education and the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Appointed to these roles in October 2022, he previously held the same ministerial positions in 2018. Before his political career, Mahafzah had a distinguished academic tenure at the University of Jordan, where he served as President and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Damascus and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the American University of Beirut.
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- Education
- University of Damascus (Doctor of Medicine, 1977); American University of Beirut (Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology, 1984)
- Career
- Lecturer and Professor at the University of Jordan; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jordan; Vice President for Scientific Faculties at the University of Jordan; President of the University of Jordan
