Sara Zaafarani

Sara Zaafarani Zenzari (born 1963) is a Tunisian civil engineer who became prime minister of Tunisia in March 2025. She was born in Tunis and graduated from the National Engineering School of Tunis with a civil engineering degree, then took a master's degree in geotechnical engineering at Leibniz University Hannover. Her career was spent largely in the Ministry of Equipment and Housing, where she was a senior engineer from 1989 to 1992 and head of the Special Facilities Department from 1992 to 1997. In 2009 she managed a project monitoring the road linking Sfax and Gabes and road links in other regions, and she sat on the boards of the Tunisian Highway Company and the port of Enfidha. She became Minister of Equipment and Housing in 2021, served as acting Minister of Transportation in 2024, and was chosen by President Kais Saied as prime minister on 21 March 2025.