Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi | |
Birth Date: | 11 July 1967 |
Birth Place: | Bologhine, Algeria |
Death Place: | Rouïba, Algeria |
Nationality: | Algerian |
Education: | Higher National Agronomic School |
Party: | FLN |
Office: | (acting) |
Term Start: | 27 April 2021 |
Term End: | 8 July 2021 |
Successor: | Karim Bibi Triki |
Term Start2: | 4 January 2020 |
Term End2: | 8 July 2021 |
Successor2: | Hicham Sofiane Salawatchi |
Office3: | Member of the People's National Assembly |
Term Start3: | 18 May 2017 |
Term End3: | 4 March 2019 |
Constituency3: | Algiers Province |
Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi (Arabic: سيد أحمد فروخي; 11 July 1967 – 17 June 2022) was an Algerian politician.
Sid Ahmed was the son of doctor Hamdane Ferroukhi[1] and the nephew of resistance fighter .[2] He obtained the title of state engineer in agronomy from the Higher National Agronomic School, of which he became Deputy Director in 1997. In 2005, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Algerian Space Agency.[2]
Ferroukhi served as Minister of Fisheries and Fishery Resources from 2012 to 2016 and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2015 to 2016.[1] In 2017, he was elected to the People's National Assembly as a member of the National Liberation Front, where he supported the fifth term of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. He resigned from his mandate on 4 March 2019 amidst the Hirak Movement.[3]
From 2020 to 2021, Ferroukhi was interim .[4]
Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi died of cardiac arrest in Rouïba on 17 June 2022 at the age of 54.[5]