Youssef Chahed
| Youssef Chahed | |
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| Head of Government of Tunisia | |
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Assumed office 27 August 2016 | |
| President | Beji Caid Essebsi |
| Preceded by | Habib Essid |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 18, 1975 Tunis, Tunisia |
| Nationality | Tunisian |
| Political party | Nidaa Tounes |
| Alma mater | Tunis University |
| Religion | Islam |
Youssef Chahed (Arabic: يوسف الشاهد) (born 18 September 1975) is a Tunisian politician who has been Prime Minister of Tunisia since 2016.
He is an agricultural engineer, researcher and university professor. A graduate of the Institut National Agronomique Tunisia in 1998, he then joined the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon in France where he obtained in 1999 his DEA in Economics from the Environment and Natural Resources. In 2003, he received a doctorate in agricultural economics with a thesis entitled " Measuring the impact on the welfare of tariff cuts on agricultural products." Successively until 2009 he taught agricultural economics at the Higher Institute of Agriculture in France and in other countries as a visiting professor.[1]
On 3 August 2016, Chahed was appointed as Head of Government of Tunisia.[2]
Early life and education
Born in Tunis in 1975, Youssef Chahed studied to become an agricultural engineer at the National Agricultural Institute of Tunisia, where he graduated, valedictorian, in 1998.[3][4]
He then joined the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon in France. He graduated in 1999, obtaining a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in environmental economics and resource and in 2003 a PhD in Agricultural Economics under the direction of Jean-Christophe Bureau. The title of his DEA was Measuring the impact on the welfare of tariff cuts on agricultural products: an application of the Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) to the economy of the European Union [5] and his doctoral thesis was on "measuring the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on trade and welfare".[6]
He speaks Arabic, French, English and Italian fluently.[7]
References
- ↑ http://www.businessnews.com.tn/qui-est-youssef-chahed-,520,66172,3
- ↑ "Tunisian president names technocrat as prime minister". 3 August 2016 – via Reuters.
- ↑ http://www.businessnews.com.tn/biographie-de-youssef-chahed-ministre-des-affaires-locales,525,61519,3|date=6 January 2016
- ↑ "Qui est Youssef Chahed, nouveau Secrétaire d'Etat à la Pêche".
- ↑ Group, PMB. "Infodoc : Réseau des bibliothèques et centres de documentation d'AgroParisTech".
- ↑ https://www.theses.fr/2003INAP0011
- ↑ Der Mann für den Ruck in Tunesien, Die Zeit , 29 August 2016
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| Preceded by Habib Essid |
Head of Government of Tunisia 2016-present |
Incumbent |