Tunisia’s President named geologist Najla Bouden as the country’s first ever female prime minister-designate.
Ms Bouden is the first woman to hold the position in Tunisia’s history and the first female prime minister in the Arab world.
Born in 1958 in the central Kairouan governorate, Ms Bouden is a professor of higher education at the National Engineering School in Tunis, specialising in geosciences.
A political outsider, Ms Bouden will leave her current role of running a plan to carry out World Bank programmes at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Since 2011, she has served as director general in charge of quality at the Higher Education Ministry.
She also held the position of head of the Purpose Action Unit in the same ministry, and was assigned a task at the office of the then higher education minister, Shehab Boden, in 2015.
Ms Bouden will be Mr Saied’s fourth head of government since he took office in autumn 2019, and the third he appointed personally.
source/content: thenationalnews.com
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