Jafar Hassan

Prime Minister of JordanAssumed office
15 September 2024MonarchAbdullah IIPreceded byBisher KhasawnehMinistry of Planning and International CooperationIn office
2009–2013Chief of Staff to King Abdullah IIIn office
2021 – 15 September 2024MonarchAbdullah II Personal detailsBorn1968 (age 55–56)NationalityJordanianChildren3Alma materAwardsOrder of the Star of Jordan
Order of Independence (Jordan)
Order of the Rising Sun
Order of Merit (Portugal)
Order of the Crown (Belgium)
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Jafar Hassan (Arabic: جعفر حسان; born 1968) is a Jordanian official who currently serves as the Prime Minister of Jordan since 2024.^[1]

He holds a DES and a Ph.D. in Political Sciences and International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He also holds graduate degrees from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Boston University and a BA degree from the American University in Paris.^[2][3]

In 2020, he was awarded the Gold and Silver Star of Japan's Order of the Rising Sun for strengthing ties between Jordan and Japan.^[4]

After joining Jordan's foreign service in 1991, he was posted abroad to Washington D.C. and Geneva. From 2006 to 2009, he was director of the International Affairs Department at the Royal Hashemite Court. He was appointed as Minister of Planning and International Cooperation in 2009, a position he held until 2013.^[5]

In 2014, he became chief of staff of the office of Jordan's King Abdullah II. In 2018, he was appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, and tasked with implementing reforms to cutting public debt.^[6] In 2021, he became director of the office (i.e. chief of staff) of the king.^[7]

He was reappointed as Director of The Office of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein in May of 2021.

He is the author of a book on Jordan's Political Economy, published in Arabic in 2020.