Mansour Moalla
Mansour Moalla ( Arabic منصور معلى, DMG Manṣūr Muʿallā ; * May 1, 1930 in Sfax ) is a former Tunisian politician of the Neo Destur Party and, since 1964, of the Socialist Destur Party , who was Minister of Post, Telegraphy and Telephony between 1969 and 1970, Minister of Planning from 1970 to 1974 and between 1980 and 1983 Minister of Finance and Minister of Planning again.
Life
Mansour Moalla, son of Slaiem Moalla and his wife Emna Chaabouni, graduated after attending school in Sfax a degree in Law at the University of Paris , graduating 1,951th He finished another degree in philosophy in 1953 and began his political engagement in 1953 as General Secretary of the General Student Union UGET (Union générale des étudiants de Tunisie) in Paris . In 1954 he also obtained a diploma in political science from the École nationale d'administration (ENA) and in 1955 became President of the Executive Committee of the UGET in Paris. After completing his training at the General Finance Directorate (Inspection générale des finances) , he began his professional career in the French Ministry of Finance in 1956 , but returned to his home country on March 20, 1956 after Tunisia gained independence from France and became a technical advisor in the Ministry of Finance. He played a leading role in the founding of the central bank BCT ( Banque Centrale de Tunisie ) on September 19, 1958 and became its first general manager in October 1958. In this role he played a key role in the introduction of the Tunisian dinar on October 18, 1958 and in the currency negotiations with France in January 1959.
In March 1961, Moalla left the central bank and was appointed general manager of the National Investment Company SNI (Société Nationale d'investissement) . In this function he worked closely with the office of the President of the Tunisian Republic Habib Bourguiba and was part of the so-called "Committee of the Nine", which founded the African Development Bank in 1964 . In November 1964 he became the first vice president of the African Development Bank. On July 26, 1967, he returned to the political administration on the instructions of President Bourguiba and initially acted as Undersecretary for Trade and Industry with the rank of Minister in the second Bourguiba cabinet and then, from October 24, 1968, as Director of Central Administration in the Presidential Office. He then took over the post of Minister for Post, Telegraphy and Telephony (Ministre des Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones) in the second Bourguiba cabinet on September 8, 1969 . He held this office in the Ladgham Cabinet until June 12, 1970 , after which he himself became Assistant Minister for Planning with the Prime Minister and held this office between November 2, 1970 and October 29, 1971 in the Nouira Cabinet . He then held the post of Minister of Planning (Ministre tunisien du Plan) in the Nouira cabinet from October 29, 1971 until his replacement by Chedli Ayari on September 25, 1974 .
Moalla, who was a member of the Central Committee and since 1971 also of the Politburo of the Socialist Destur Party (PSD), founded on March 29, 1976 with Habib Bourguiba jr. the Banque internationale arabe de Tunisie (BIAT) and remained its chairman until 1994.
On April 25, 1980 he returned to the government and held the post of Minister of Finance and Planning (Ministre des Finances et du Plan) in the Mzali cabinet . In the subsequent cabinet reshuffle on June 18, 1983, he was replaced by Salah Ben M'barka as finance minister and Ismail Khelil as planning minister.
Moalla has been married to Leila Skandrani since 1961.
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| SURNAME | Moalla, Mansour |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | منصور معلى (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian politician of the Socialist Destur Party |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sfax |