Muhammad Amer Mardini

Dr. Muhammad Amer Mardini is a Syrian academic and politician, who served in the final government of Ba'athist Syria as the Minister of Education.

Muhammad Amer Mardini was born in Damascus in 1959. He earned a PhD in pharmaceutical quality control from Humboldt University in East Germany in 1988. He was a professor of pharmaceutics at al-Andalus University and the University of Damascus. At the time of his second appointment to government he was the rector of al-Andalus University.

Mardini was named the minister of education on August 27, 2014, in the Second Wael al-Halqi government. During this time Mardini and Bashar al-Assad issued reforms to B.A. and M.A. programs. He also worked to improve cooperation between Syrian and Iranian medical universities. Mardini, along with the rest of the Syrian government, would be placed under sanctions due to the violent suppression of the Syrian people during the Syrian Civil War

On August 8, 2023, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Decree No. 206 for 2023 which again named Mardini the minister of education. He was sworn in on August 9 by Assad before Hussein Arnous.