Hussein Hajj Hassan (Arabic: حسين الحاج حسن) is a Lebanese politician born in the Beqaa Valley in 1960.
Holder of a doctoral degree in molecular biophysical chemistry from the University of Orléans, France in 1987, he is a member of the Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah. He ran on the latter's electoral list in Lebanon's 1996 general election and was elected MP of the Beqaa's Baalbeck/Hermel constituency. He was reelected in the 2000, 2005 and 2009 polls. From 2000 to 2005 he led the parliamentary commission on Agriculture and Tourism. He is part of the "Loyalty to the Resistance", an opposition parliamentary bloc.
He was named on 9 November 2009 Minister of Agriculture in Saad Hariri's national unity government. [1]