Union Académique Internationale

Mahmoud Ben Romdhane is a Tunisian academic, economist and politician. Professor of economics at the faculties of economics and management of Sfax and Tunis from 1981 to 2008, former president of the Tunisian section of Amnesty International from 1988 to 1994, he has been a member since 2007 of the Ettajdid movement, of which he was the Deputy Secretary General. After the 2011 revolution, he became a founding member of Nidaa Tounes, the party of Béji Caïd Essebsi, in 2012. He entered the government on February 6, 2015 as Minister of Transport, then Minister of Social Affairs in 2016.