Hatem Ben Salem

Mohamed Hatem Ben Salem
Tunisian Minister of Education
In office 12 September 2017 – 27 February 2020
In office 29 August 2008 – 14 January 2011
Personal details
Born	(1956-02-08) 8 February 1956 (age 68) Tunisia
Alma mater	University of Paris

Mohamed Hatem Ben Salem is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Education under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Hatem Ben Salem was born on 8 February 1956.[2] He received a PhD in Law from the University of Paris and the agrégation from the Tunis University.[2]

From 1996 to 2000, he was the Tunisian Ambassador to Senegal, then Guinea, Gambia, Cap Vert, Turkey, and then to the United Nations in Geneva.[2][3]

He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.[2][3] He has taught at Lund University in Sweden and the University of Graz in Austria.[2][3] In 2008, he was appointed as Minister of Education,[2] until he was deposed in the aftermath of the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests. On 6 July 2015, Ben Salem was appointed as Director of the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2017, Hatem Ben Salem was appointed for the second time as Minister of Education of the Republic of Tunisia.[5][6]

References

1. CIA World Leaders Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Biographie de Hatem Ben Salem, ministre de l'Education" [Biography of Hatem Ben Salem, Minister of Education] (in French). 2008-08-31. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
3. "Education Project Bahrain". Archived from the original on 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
4. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007424058141 ^[user-generated source]
5. "Biographie de Hatem Ben Salem, nouveau ministre de l'Education". Business News. 6 November 2017.
6. Dahmani, Frida (2017-09-06). "Tunisie: la composition du gouvernement " Chahed 2 " dévoilée". Jeune Afrique (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-16.