Chems-Eddine Chitour is an Algerian scholar, researcher and author. He took office as Minister of Energy Transition and Renewable Energies on June 24, 2020. He previously served as minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from January the 4th to June 24, 2020 in
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
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Career
He graduated from the National Polytechnic School and the Algerian Institute of petroleum in Algiers, in the field of Chemistry. He did his doctorate "Es Sciences" at the Université Jean Monnet in France. He is the founder of valorization of
fossil energy
A fossil fuel is a flammable carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the buried remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants or microplanktons), a process that occurs within geolog ...
research laboratory. He worked as a professor and assisting professor at "IGC" and then ENSIACET in the city of
Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
in France. He published several scholarly articles and books.
Chitour took office on 4 January 2020 as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
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Living people
Algerian academics
Government ministers of Algeria
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Education ministers of Algeria
Jean Monnet University alumni
21st-century Algerian people
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