Abdelwaheb Maatar

Abdelwaheb Maatar was born on March 23, 1952, in Sfax.^[2][3] He received a diploma in Management from the National School of Administration in Tunis and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tunis.^[2][3]

He is a lawyer and a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Tunis.^[2]

He was involved with the Democratic Modernist Pole until he became a founding member of the Congress for the Republic (CPR) political party.^[2][3] He exposed the corruption of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and tried to challenge his re-election in 2004.^[2] He serves as Vice-President of the International Association for the Support of Political Prisoners, and he is a founding member of the Tunisian Judicial Independence Center.^[2][3] He is also a fellow of the International Council on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.^[2]

On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Training and Employment.^[2] He has been accused of nepotism.^[4]

He is married, and has three children.^[2][3]