Mohamed Lamine Chakhari

Mohamed Lamine Chakhari (born 1957) is a Tunisian politician. He serves as the Minister of Industry under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Mohamed Lamine Chakhari was born on 17 May 1957 in Foussana.[2] He received a PhD in Mechanical engineering.[2]

Career and politics

He works as a university professor at the National School of Engineers of Tunis. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of an industrial company and the head of its mechanical engineering department.[2] He is a member of the Ennahda Movement.[2]

Minister

On 20 December 2011, after former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was deposed, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Industry and Commerce.[2] On 16 February 2012, he became Minister of Industry only, and his former deputy minister, Bechir Zaafouri, became Minister of Trade and Handicraft.[3]

In May 2012, he announced that natural gas lines would reach the governorates of Kasserine, Siliana, Jendouba, Beja, and El Kef in Northwestern Tunisia.[4] In June 2012, he unveiled a $2.5 billion investment strategy in solar energy for the Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité et du Gaz (STEG).[5]

gollark: Let's blame the first caveman to set wood on fire.
gollark: The steam engine person.
gollark: I mean, if you're going to be like that, James Watt did.
gollark: > In 1924, unsatisfied with the speed of DuPont's TEL production using the "bromide process", General Motors and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now known as ExxonMobil) created the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation to produce and market TEL. Ethyl Corporation built a new chemical plant using a high-temperature ethyl chloride process at the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey.[9] However, within the first two months of its operation, the new plant was plagued by more cases of lead poisoning, hallucinations, insanity, and five deaths.[citation needed]
gollark: Were they *also* him?

References
  1. CIA World Leaders
  2. Ahmed Ellali, Mohamed Lamine Chakhari, Tunisia Live, 22 December 2011
  3. Le ministère de l’Industrie et du Commerce est scindé en deux, Business News, 20 April 2012
  4. Farah Samti, Natural Gas Lines to Reach Tunisia’s Northwestern Region Archived 2012-06-01 at the Wayback Machine, Tunisia Live, 11 May 2012
  5. Mohamed Guesmi, Solar Energy in Tunisia to Benefit Most from $2.5 Billion Investment Archived 2012-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Tunisia Live, 6 June 2012
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