Amira Yahyaoui

Amira Yahyaoui is a Tunisian human rights advocate and founder of Al Bawsala and Centre 247. Since 2000, Amira Yahyaoui has been active against Ben Ali’s regime as member of the Tunisian anti-censorship & freedom of speech movement. Following the revolution she founded the multi-awarded Tunisian organisation Al Bawsala. Al Bawsala is a Public Policy and Accountability NGO working on promoting human rights and good governance in Tunisia. Through its project marsad.tn (monitor in arabic), Al Bawsala monitors the work of the parliament using new technologies to make the information collected accessible to citizens. Al Bawsala is considered as one of the most influential NGOs in Tunisia, The organization won in 2012 the OpenGov award for transparency and in 2013 the World Summit Award for its parliament watchdog www.marsad.tn.

Today, Amira is launching Centre 247, the first Tunisian securit y and defense think tank. She has been ranked by Arabian business magazine as one of the most powerful Arab women.