Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir ( ar, محمد سالم ولد البشير) is a
Mauritanian politician who served as
Prime Minister of Mauritania
This is a list of prime ministers of Mauritania since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Mauritania in 1960 to the present day.
A total of sixteen people have served as Prime Minister of Mauritania (not counting one Acting Prime Mi ...
from 2018 to 2019, following the resignation of his predecessor,
Yahya Ould Hademine
Yahya Ould Hademine ( ar, يحي ولد حدمين; born December 31, 1953) is a Mauritanian engineer and politician who served as Defence Minister of Mauritania. He served as the Prime Minister of Mauritania from August 21, 2014. to October 29, ...
, and his government, in late October 2018.
Biography
He studied robotics engineering in
France
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. He began his career at the National Society of Water and Electricity (Sonelec) in September 1986. He was Secretary General of several ministries from May 2007 to September 2009, when he was appointed General Manager of the Mauritanian Electricity Company.
He stepped down in September 2013 when he joined the government as Minister of Water and Sanitation. In January 2015, he was appointed Minister of Petroleum, Energy and Mines, a position he held until 2016, when he was appointed Director of the National Society of Mining and Industry.
He is named Prime Minister after the resignation of Yahya Ould Hademine, several weeks after the triumph of the party in power, the party of the Union for the Republic, in the
parliamentary elections of September 2018.
References
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Living people
1962 births
Prime Ministers of Mauritania
Mauritanian Muslims
Energy ministers of Mauritania
Mining ministers of Mauritania
Oil ministers of Mauritania
Water ministers of Mauritania