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Dr. Lobna Jeribi
Former Minister in charge of Major National Projects, Tunisia
Biography
Dr. Lobna Jeribi is a Tunisian public policy expert and former government minister. In 2020 she served in the government of Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh as minister in charge of Major National Projects, and as interim Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
From 2011 to 2014 she was a member of Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly, where she was vice-president of the committee on the preamble, fundamental principles and constitutional amendments, and rapporteur of the committee on finance, planning and regional development. She founded and led Solidar Tunisie, a think tank working on public policy. An engineer by training, she holds an information systems engineering degree and a doctorate in computer engineering from INSA Lyon, and taught at Tunisia’s National School of Computer Science (ENSI).