The new Syrian authorities on Monday appointed Maisa Sabrine as governor of the Syrian Central Bank, replacing Mohamed Esam Hazma, making her the first woman to head the institution since its creation in the 1950s.
Sabrine, who served as first deputy governor of the Central Bank, will thus replace Hazma, appointed in April 2021 during the regime of the already overthrown Syrian president Bashar al Assad and who was also second deputy governor of the institution.
With more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial and banking field, Sabrine was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Damascus Stock Exchange, among some of her positions, as reported by Syria TV.
The new Syrian authorities led by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) face the enormous challenge of restoring an economy devastated by more than a decade of war and marked by the country’s transformation into a narco-state due to the massive production of Captagon amphetamine.
The jihadist leader of Syria, Ahmed Hussein al Shara, known as Abu Mohamed al Golani, promised on Saturday a transition process after the fall of Al Assad, which could last up to four years and after drafting a new constitutional framework and a new census. .