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Lamia Chafei Seghaier

Tunisian engineer and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ3216729
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Lamia Chafei Seghaier (born 4 May 1968 in Tunis) is a Tunisian engineer and politician. She was the Secretary of State to the Minister of Communication Technologies in charge of Information Technology, Internet and Free Software between 2008 and 2011.

Education

Seghaier earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from National Engineering School of Monastir and University of Technology of Compiègne.

Career

In 1993, Seghaier became a network engineer in a private company, and then in 1996 she began working at the Tunisian Internet Agency, where she was successively Head of Service in charge of e-commerce, Deputy Director in charge of Technology and Security, and then Director in charge of Technology.

Seghaier became CEO, replacing Adel Gaaloul, and held this position from September 2007 to 2 January 2008.

Seghaier also helped develop some university courses, from 2000 to 2002,.

Between January 2008 and January 2011,

Seghaier was Secretary of State to the Minister of Communication Technologies in charge of Information Technology, Internet and Free Software. She held this position in the first Ghannouchi government, and then with Minister Mohamed Naceur Ammar, from 2010 and until the 2011 revolution.

Personal life

Seghaier is married and has one child.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lamia Chafei Seghaier” as tunisian engineer and politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2008, 2011, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-05-04. The account is most persuasive where Lamia, Chafei and Seghaier can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as tunisian engineer and politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3216729. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968, 2008, 2011 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from Lamia Chafei Seghaier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.