Fadi Sawan (Arabic: فادي صوّان, born in 1960[1]) is a Lebanese military investigative judge, who became known after being assigned with the immense task of investigating the 2020 Beirut Port explosion[2], one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history[3][4], the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that killed more than 200 people, wounded over 6,000 and destroyed much of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on August 4, 2020[5].