صفوان عكاش

Safwan Akash

Place and Date of Birth: Hama, Syria / 1954.
Electrical Engineer, specializing in Power Transmission and Distribution, University of Aleppo – Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
Leader in the Communist Labor Party, spent more than 17 years in the regime’s prisons.
Leader in the National Democratic Gathering until 2011.
Former Executive Office member of the Damascus Declaration for Democratic Change.
Head of the Media Office for the Damascus Declaration for Democratic Change until 2008.
Founding member of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.
Former Deputy Coordinator-General of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.
Former Secretary-General of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.
Arrested three times after 2011.
Participated in numerous conferences representing the Syrian opposition in Cairo, Moscow, and Riyadh.
Banned from returning to Syria following his participation in the Moscow 2 Conference at the end of 2014.
Elected Secretary-General of the High Negotiations Commission for two terms after the Riyadh 1 Conference.
Elected Secretary-General of the Syrian Negotiation Commission after the Riyadh 2 Conference.
Member of the Syrian Constitutional Committee.
Member of the Small Constitutional Committee representing the Syrian opposition.