Abderrahmane Benkhalfa
عبد الرحمان بن خالفة
Minister of Finance
In office
14 May 2015  11 June 2016
Prime MinisterAbdelmalek Sellal
Preceded byMohamed Djellab
Succeeded byHadji Baba Ammi
Personal details
Born
Abderrahmane Benkhalfa

(1949-07-02)2 July 1949
Tiaret, French Algeria
Died23 April 2021(2021-04-23) (aged 71)
Algiers, Algeria
Political partyNational Liberation Front
Alma materUniversity of Algiers
University of Grenoble

Abderrahmane Benkhalfa (Arabic: عبد الرحمان بن خالفة, July 2, 1949 – April 23, 2021)[1][2] was an Algerian financial expert.[2] He was general delegate for the Algerian Association of Banks and Financial Institutions,[1] and director of the Bank of Algeria.[1] He was Algerian Minister of Finance.[1][2] He was also a member of the Finance and Credit Council at the Bank of Algeria.[3] He was described as being pro-private-sector.[4]

Education

He obtained a bachelor's in commercial and financial sciences from the Superior College of Business at the University of Algiers,[1] and went on to obtain a doctorate in management sciences from the French University of Grenoble in 1977.[1] He also attended a specialization course at the University of Warsaw in Poland.[1]

Death

On 23 April 2021, Benkhalfa died at Aïn Naadja Military Hospital, Algiers, from complications related to COVID-19.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Minister's Biography". Ministry of Finance Algeria (in French). Archived from the original on 30 December 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Abderrahmane Benkhalfa, from Financial Expert to Minister of Finance". Ennahar El Djadid (in Arabic). Ennahar Online. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  3. "Who is Who". Bank of Algeria (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  4. "Algeria: reviving the land of the living dead". The Economist. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  5. "Décès de l'ancien ministre des Finances Abderrahmane Benkhalfa". aps.dz (in French). 23 April 2021.


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