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Saida Agrebi (born January 22, 1945, inTunisia) is a member of theEconomic, Social and Cultural Council of theAfrican Union, representingNorth Africa. She also sits on thePan-African Parliament representing Tunisia.[1][2] She graduated from theUniversity of California, Berkeley with amaster's degree in Public Health.
As a student she served as an instructor on reproductive and family health inhospitals in California andMaryland, instructor ofpublic health inNative-Americanreservations in the state ofArizona, and lecturer onreproductive health inJamaica.
Ms Agrebi joined theArab Labour Organisation[3] where she served as the Director of the Bureau of the Arab Working Woman until 1987. She was appointed Director of Communication at the National Office for Family and Population, and then promoted to Deputy Director General in which capacity she served until 1995. In 1995 she acted as Deputy Director General of the Office of Tunisians Abroad, before being elected as Deputy in theChamber of Deputies of Tunisia in 1999.
As an expert on various topics, including reproductive and public health,women’s rights, civil society and emigration, Ms Agrebi has participated in variousUN events. She has also published various articles on women in the work place, Arab women, rural women, and family planning in English, French and Arabic.
In 2003, after the AWCPD’s successful lobbying to mainstream gender in the AU, Ms Agrebi was one of the five women elected to the AU Commission at the Second General Assembly inMaputo,Mozambique.
Besides being a member of the AWCPD, Ms Agrebi is a member of many other organisations, including the vice-presidency ofFEMNET, the vice-presidency of theWorld Organisation of the Family, membership inFemmes Africa Solidarité, and founding presidency of the International Arab Women’s Forum, the Tunisian Mothers’ Association and the Organisation of Magreb Mothers.
She has garnered many accolades for her work PresidentBen Ali of Tunisia presented the latest one.