Naceur El Gharbi Naceur El Gharbi Naceur El Gharbi was the Tunisian Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity, and Tunisians Living Abroad under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Naceur El Gharbi was born in Kairouan, Tunisia in 1949. He received a Masters in Public Law, and he is a graduate of the École nationale d'administration. In 1974, he started his career in the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs. In 1988, he was appointed as Governor of Gabès. From 2000 to 2004, he was CEO of Pharmacie Centrale Tunisienne, and from 2004 to 2009, he was the CEO of the Tunisian "Caisse Nationale
Sadok Chaabane and others. He also took part in numerous international symposia organized by the United Nations and the UNRWA. He attended Harvard University Summer seminar in Salzburg (Austria), and was selected to tour the USA as part of the Young African Leaders program. He never held a government post before 1987. He admired Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali since his appointment by Bourguiba in 1986 as Minister of the Interior. He told many of his academic friends who were political scientists and economists that Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali has now become the man of the moment, and that he would