Background
Elyes Fakhfakh was born in Tunis in 1972.
Elyes Fakhfakh was born in Tunis in 1972.
He graduated from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon.
He serves as the Minister of Tourism under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. In 1999, at the age of 27, he started his career as an engineer for the French oil corporation Total South America He worked for Total in Europe, America and Asia, and from 2004 onwards in Poland.
In 2004, he joined Cortrel, a Tunisian leaf spring manufacturing company, and later became its Deputy Director General. On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Tourism.
He is a member of Ettakatol.