Elyes Fakhfakh (Arabic: إلياس الفخفاخ; born 1972) is a Tunisian politician. He served as the minister of tourism and, starting on 19 December 2012, as the minister of finance as well, under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. He served as the prime minister of Tunisia from 27 February to 2 September 2020.
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Biography
Elyes Fakhfakh was born in Tunis in 1972. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the National Engineering School of Sfax and graduated in 1995. Then he studied Master's at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon. Later on, he had a Master's degree in Business Administration at University of Évry Val d'Essonne.
Career
In 1999, at the age of 27, he started his career as an engineer for the French oil corporation Total S.A. He worked for Total in Europe, America and Asia, and from 2004 onwards in Poland. In 2004, he joined Cortrel, a Tunisian leaf spring manufacturing company, and later became its Deputy Director General.
He is a member of Ettakatol. On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Tourism.
On 19 December 2012, he also took charge of the Ministry of Finance. He is successively assisted by two secretaries of state: Slim Besbes and Chedly Abed.