Background
Abdelkefi was born in Tunis on 1 March 1941. His father was a farmer and merchant, originally from Sfax, and his mother was of Turkish origin.
Abdelkefi was born in Tunis on 1 March 1941. His father was a farmer and merchant, originally from Sfax, and his mother was of Turkish origin.
In 1959 he left for France to attend the University of Paris I where he graduated with degree in economics in 1963.
He spent his childhood in the medina of Tunis and, after studying at primary Sadiki College, he enrolled at the Lycee Carnot where he earned a bachelor of science. The following year he was admitted to the Ecole Nationale d"Administration. lieutenant was not until 1967 that he returned to Tunisia where he began a career in administration, the governorate of Sidi Bouzid at first and then in a second step, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, where he heads the department of foreign investment.
Appointed in 1973 as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Society for the Study and Development of North-Sousse, he immediately took care of the development of Portuguese El Kantaoui which became the cornerstone of the first integrated resort in Tunisia.
He left his post in 1978 to go work, for five years, within the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development as an advisor to the Chairman. He launched the first leasing company based in Tunisia in 1984.
In 1994 he founded the Tuninvest Finance Group (TFG), the first Tunisian company specialized in private equity. The fund Tuninvest is also present in Morocco since 2000 under the name Marocinvest and since 2006 in Algeria under the name Maghrebinvest.
By 2005 Abdelkefi created the Tunisia Doctor of Laws, which is the first company specialized in fleet management.
Furthermore, he is currently president of TLG Financial Group and the Integra Partners grouping Tunisie Valeurs Tuninvest and Finance Group.