Jamal Jarrah
Jamal Jarrah is a Lebanese businessman and politician. He served as Minister of Telecommunications and Minister of Information in the cabinet of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. He is currently a member of the Future Movement Party.
Biography
Jarrah was born in 1956 in Al-Marj, Lebanon. He attended the Lebanese American University and then worked for an electrical equipment company in Jordan before working for Bankmed, becoming a regional director in Beqaa.He was elected to the Lebanese Parliament in 2005 as a member of the Future Movement party, representing the Western Beqaa constituency. He became Minister of Telecommunications in the cabinet of Prime Minister Saad Hariri in 2016 and held the post until 2019 when we was appointed to serve as Minister of Information. He was Minister of Information from 2019 until 2020.
While serving as Minister of Telecommunications, Jarrah had charges brought against him for wasting public funds.