 Coming from a modest family of five (his father is a farmer and his stay-at-home mom), he joined the first class of the National School of Administration (ENA) after a master's degree in economics from the Faculty of Law and Economics of Tunis.During the presidency of Habib Bourguiba, he was successively attached cabinet to the Ministry of the Interior and Equipment (1972), chief of staff of Defense Ministers Abdallah Farhat and Rachid Sfar.Terminated in 1980, he taught for thirteen months at ENA then became CEO of a company specializing in building.