Slim Chaker

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Slim Chaker
Minister of Public Health
In office 12 September 2017 – 8 October 2017
Prime Minister	Youssef Chahed
Preceded by	Samira Merai
Succeeded by	Sonia Ben Cheikh (Acting)
Minister of Finance
In office 6 February 2015 – 27 August 2016
Prime Minister	Habib Essid
Preceded by	Hakim Ben Hammouda
Succeeded by	Lamia Zribi
Minister of Youth and Sport
In office 1 July 2011 – 24 December 2011
Prime Minister	Béji Caïd Essebsi
Preceded by	Mohamed Aloulou
Succeeded by	Tarak Dhiab
Secretary for the Minister of Commerce in charge of Tourism
In office 17 January 2011 – 1 July 2011
Prime Minister	Mohamed Ghannouchi Béji Caïd Essebsi
Preceded by	Mohsen Laroui
Succeeded by	Béchir Zaâfouri
Personal details
Born	(1961-08-24)24 August 1961 Sfax, Tunisia
Died	8 October 2017(2017-10-08) (aged 56) Tunis, Tunisia
Cause of death	Heart attack
Party	Nidaa Tounes (2012–2017)
Parent	Mohamed Chaker (father)

Slim Chaker (24 August 1961 – 8 October 2017) was a Tunisian politician who served as the Minister of Health from September, 12 to 8 October 2017 before his death.^[1][2] A member of Nidaa Tounes, he was the minister of Youth and Sports from 1 July, until 24 December 2011, within the government of Beji Caid Essebsi.

Born into a family of the former Sfaxian notability, he is the son of Mohamed Chaker and the grandson of Tunisian politician and national movement figure Hédi Chaker. He obtained his baccalauréat at Sadiki College in Tunis in 1979, then pursued three years of undergraduate studies in mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure of Tunis until 1983.^[3] He also studied in Paris, where he graduated as a statistical engineer from ENSAE-CESD, and later, in 2008, obtained an MBA from the Mediterranean School of Business.^[3]

He is Minister of Youth and Sports from July to December 2011, in the government of Béji Caïd Essebsi. Became a member of Nidaa Tounes, where he was in charge of economic and social programs,^[4] he was the Minister of Finance in the government of Habib Essid from February 2015 to August 2016^[5] and briefly Tunisian Minister of Public Health in the government of Youssef Chahed from September 2017^[6][7] to his death.

Slim Chaker died on 8 October 2017 at the military hospital in Tunis following a heart attack, shortly after participating in a marathon organized by Nourane to promote the fight against breast cancer.^[8][9] He was replaced on 7 November by Mohamed Trabelsi,^[10] and on 18 November Imed Hammami succeeded him.^[11]

On 9 October, a minute of silence was observed in his memory across public and private health institutions in Tunisia.^[12]

The Minister of Women, Family and Childhood, Néziha Labidi, decided to rename the “Octobre Rose” marathon, in which he had participated, in his honor.^[13]

Slim Chaker was married to Amel Miled and had three children: Mariem, Hajer, and Mohamed Ali.^[14]

On 23 November 2011, he was awarded the insignia of Commander of the Tunisian Order of the Republic.^[15]

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