Faïza Kefi Explained

Office:President of the National Audit Office
President:Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Term Start:March 2004
Term End:July 2011
Successor:M. Abdellatif Kharrat
Office1:Ambassador of Tunisia to France
Term Start1:May 2001
Term End1:2003
Office2:Minister of Professional Training and Employment
President2:Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Term Start2:2000
Term End2:May 2001
Office3:Minister of Environment and Land Development
President3:Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Term Start3:April 1999
Term End3:2000
Predecessor3:Mohamed Mlika
Occupation:Jurist
Alma Mater:University of Tunis

Faïza Kefi (born 1949) is a Tunisian jurist, politician and diplomat who has held various posts, including minister of environment and land development, member of the Parliament and ambassador of Tunisia to France.

Early life and education

She was born in 1949. She attended Tunis University obtaining a degree in public law. She also received in educational planning from the National Civil Services School.[1] [2] In addition, she holds a master's degree in law and a PhD from the University of Administrative Sciences.[2]

Career and activities

Kefi worked at Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Women's Affairs[2] and Ministry of Planning. She was part of the Tunisian delegation to the World Conference on Women held in Nairobi in 1985.[1] She joined the ruling party Democratic Constitutional Rally the day after the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali came to power in November 1987. Then she was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly in 1994.[2] [3] There she was the president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians.[3] In 1993 she became the president of the Tunisian National Women's Union.[4] She held the post until 1999.

Then Kefi was appointed the minister of the environment and land development in April 1999, replacing Mohamed Mlika in the post,[5] [6] and became the second Tunisian woman holding a cabinet post.[7] Kefi's next cabinet post was the minister of professional training and employment.[8] Then she was named as the ambassador of Tunisia to France in May 2001[9] and held the post until 2003.[1] She was appointed head of the Tunisian national audit office in March 2004.[10] She remained in office until July 2011 when she was succeeded by M. Abdellatif Kharrat in the post.[1]

Kefi became the president of the Technical Committee for the Social Dialogue in 2013.[11] She was elected as one of the ten members of the executive bureau of the Nidaa Tounes party in March 2015.[12]

Personal life

Kefi is married and has three children.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Roel Janssen. The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage. 17–18, 22. oapen.org. 23 May 2023. 2015.
  2. New President of the Court of Auditors Named. International Journal of Government Auditing. 2004. 31. 2. .
  3. Web site: Status of women commission focus on 'women in power and decision making'. United Nations. Press release. 12 March 1997. 23 May 2023.
  4. Book: 1998. Laurie A. Brand. Women, the State, and Political Liberalization: Middle Eastern and North African Experiences. Columbia University Press. New York. 9780231112673.
  5. News: Profile - Faiza Kefi. 23 May 2023. APS Review Gas Market Trends. 10 April 2000.
  6. News: Tunisia Week In Review. 23 May 2023. allAfrica. North Africa Journal. 26 April 1999. Tunis.
  7. Book: Bruce Maddy-Weitzman. Middle East Contemporary Survey 1999. XXIII. Tel Aviv University. 2002. 978-965-224-049-1. Tel Aviv. 580.
  8. Book: The Middle East and North Africa 2003. Europa Publications. 978-1-85743-132-2. London; New York. 49. 1076.
  9. Faïza Kéfi rappelée à Tunis. 23 May 2023. Jeune Afrique. 30 July 2003. fr.
  10. News: Tunisia: Government partially reshuffled by president . 23 May 2023. BBC Monitoring Middle East . 22 March 2004. London. .
  11. News: La réforme en marche. Tunis . 9 June 2023. La Presse de Tunisie. 23 March 2019. fr. .
  12. News: fr. Composition du Bureau politique de Nidaa Tounes. 23 May 2023. allAfrica. 22 March 2015. .
  13. Web site: Delinda C. Hanley. Three Faces of Tunisian Women: A Political Activist, An Entrepreneurial Family, and an Islamic Theologian. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. 23 May 2023. 64. October–November 1998.