Career & Timeline

University career

• 2003 to 2009, Youssef Chahed is professor of agricultural economics at the Higher Institute of Agriculture LaSalle de Beauvais
• 2003 to 2015, He works as an international expert in agriculture and agricultural policies, with international institutions such as the United States Department of Agriculture and the European Commission
• He writes numerous reports and scientific articles on public policies in agriculture and agricultural production sectors in Tunisia.
• Chahed works in particular on the formulation, evaluation and supervision of agricultural projects within the framework of capacity building between Tunisia and the United States.
• He also participates in the establishment of numerous collaborations on food security and the development of cooperatives in Tunisia, in collaboration with international organizations such as the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the United States Agency for International Development, Codex Alimentarius, etc.

Political career

• After the 2011 revolution, Chahed was one of the founding members of the Al Joumhouri1 party, founded on April 9, 2012. He then joined Nidaa Tounes, as a member of the executive bureau.
• On February 6, 2015, he was appointed Secretary of State for Fisheries, to the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Saâd Seddik, in the government of Habib Essid.
• January 12, 2016, he becomes Minister of Local Affairs in this same government
• On May 25, he presents, less than a year from the municipal elections, a project for the generalization of municipalities, which provides for the creation of 61 new municipalities
• On August 1, he was proposed by President Béji Caïd Essebsi to succeed Habib Essid at the head of a government of national unity.
• On August 3, President Béji Caïd Essebsi appoints Chahed to form a new government.
• On August 20, he forms his government
• August 26 He becomes the youngest Prime Minister in the country’s modern history.
• On October 9, Youssef Chahed makes his first international visit to Algiers
• On November 10, he went to Paris where he was received by President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
• At the end of February 2017, he dismissed his Minister of Public Service and Governance, explaining that the latter had deviated from the rules of government action. In the process, he carried out a ministerial reshuffle and, on March 3, announced the abolition of the Ministry of Public Service and Governance. Some observers see this reshuffle as an opportunity to name relatives of the Ennahdha party
• May 23, he kicks off a major anti-corruption operation beginning with the arrest of Chafik Jarraya followed by those of several other businessmen such as Yassine Channoufi and Samir El Wafi. This initiative, prepared in secret for several months, is provoking a wave of support and favorable opinions from Tunisians. In this regard, he declares that he will go to the end of this war against corruption, which has significant economic costs for the country
• In August 2017, during a television broadcast, Rached Ghannouchi, president of the Islamist party Ennahdha, announced that he did not want Chahed to stand as a candidate in the 2019 presidential election. This declaration which “urges Youssef Chahed to announce his no -candidate for the presidential election of 2019” launches the debate around the candidacy of the latter

Publications

• Jean-Christophe Bureau, Youssef Chahed and Luca Salvatici, “  The decline in customs protection in the Uruguay Round: the case of agriculture in the European Union, Canada and the United States  ”,  Économie & Prévision , La French Documentation,  NO. ¹⁵⁴  , 2002,  P. 107-122 , consulted on June 30, 2016)
• Youssef Chahed and Sophie Drogue, ”  Impact of the Multilateral Process on the Viability of Preferential Agreements: The Euro-Mediterranean Case  “,  Rural Economy ,  VOL.  276,  NO. ¹  , 2003,  P. 3-16 , accessed June 30, 2016)

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