Ridha Grira (born 1955) is a Tunisian politician. He is a former Minister of National Defense.Defense Department, Official biography
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Biography

Ridha Grira was born on August 21, 1955, in

Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...

, Tunisia. He attended the

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ...

, and he received an MPhil in Chemical Engineering from the

École centrale Paris École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

in 1974. He also studied Law, Economics and Management at the

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

and the

Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

. He also graduated from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. In 1991, he became CEO of the Banque Tuniso-Libyenne. From 1992 to 1999, he worked as General Secretary of the Government. He then worked as Minister of State Properties and the Land Affairs. In January 2010, he became Minister of National Defense. In the aftermath of the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests, he was reappointed by Prime Minister

Mohamed Ghannouchi Mohamed Ghannouchi (; born 18 August 1941) is a Tunisian politician who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 1999 to 2011. Regarded as a technocrat, Ghannouchi was a long-standing figure in the Tunisian government under President Zine El Abidine B ...

. He sits on the board of the

Constitutional Democratic Rally The Democratic Constitutional Rally or Democratic Constitutional Assembly ( ', , sometimes also called Constitutional Democratic Rally in English), also referred to by its French initials RCD, was a political party in Tunisia. Including its pred ...

References

1955 births Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni École Centrale Paris alumni Sciences Po alumni University of Paris alumni Defence ministers of Tunisia Living people {{Tunisia-politician-stub