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The Tunisian Council for International Relations (TCIR) is a Tunisia based not for profit and independent research and policy think tank focused on the Arab, African and Mediterranean spheres
Biography
Khemaies JHINAOUI
- Born in Tunis on April 5, 1954
- Married
Phone
- (+216) xx xxx xxx
- xxxx@gmail.com
Social
Political career
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tunisia (from January 2016 to October 2019)
- Diplomatic and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the late President of the Republic, Mr. Beji Caid Essebsi, (from January 2015 to January 2016)
- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from July 2011 to April 2012
Diplomatic Career
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tunisia to the Russian Federation, jointly accredited to the Ukraine and former Republics of the Soviet Union, (from December 2007 to June 2011)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tunisia to the Court of Saint James’s (United Kingdom) jointly accredited to the Republic of Ireland (from March 1999 to October 2004)
- General Director of the Diplomatic Institute for Training and Studies (2013)
- General Director for Political and Economic Corporation with Europe and the European Union (from 2006 to 2007)
- Director and Chief of staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (from 2004 to 2006)
- Special Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of policy planning (from 1996 to 1998)
- Head of the Tunisian interests Office in Tel-Aviv (from May 1996 to July 1997)
- Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Tunisia in Seoul (1991-1994)
- Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Tunisia in Moscow (1987-1988)
- First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Tunisia in New Delhi (1982-1986)
Background
- Master’s Degree in Public Law
- Post-Graduate Degree in political sciences and international relations
- National Defense College (1997)
- Barrister-at-law (1978)
Honours
- Grand Officier of the Order of the Republic (2019) (Foreign)
- France: Commander of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic (2015)
- Sweden: Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star (2015)
- Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2017)
- Malta: Honorary member of the Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika of Malta (2019)
Civil Society
- Honorary Chairman of the International Association for Cooperation & Sustainable Development (AICDD)
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