Elyes Fakhfakh

Elyes Fakhfakh is a Tunisian politician. He serves as the Minister of Tourism under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.

Elyes Fakhfakh was born in Tunis in 1972. He graduated from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon.

In 1999, at the age of 27, he started his career as an engineer for the French oil corporation Total S.A.. 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.

He is a member of Ettakatol. On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Tourism.