Faïza Kefi

Kefi worked at Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Women's Affairs^[3] and Ministry of Planning.^[4] She was part of the Tunisian delegation to the World Conference on Women held in Nairobi in 1985.^[1] She joined the ruling party Democratic Constitutional Rally the day after the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali came to power in November 1987.^[5] Then she was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly in 1994.^[3][6] There she was the president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians.^[6] In 1993 she became the president of the Tunisian National Women's Union.^[4] She held the post until 1999.^[5]

Then Kefi was appointed the minister of the environment and land development in April 1999, replacing Mohamed Mlika in the post,^[7][8] and became the second Tunisian woman holding a cabinet post.^[9] Kefi's next cabinet post was the minister of professional training and employment.^[10] Then she was named as the ambassador of Tunisia to France in May 2001^[5] and held the post until 2003.^[1] She was appointed head of the Tunisian national audit office in March 2004.^[11] She remained in office until July 2011 when she was succeeded by M. Abdellatif Kharrat in the post.^[1]

Kefi became the president of the Technical Committee for the Social Dialogue in 2013.^[12] She was elected as one of the ten members of the executive bureau of the Nidaa Tounes party in March 2015.^[13]

Kefi is married and has three children.^[2]