Chems-Eddine Chitour, Algerian academic and politician who served as minister of higher education and scientific research in 2020, died on April 19, 2026, at the age of 81.
He was an Algerian scholar, researcher and author who took office as minister of higher education and scientific research on January 4, 2020, and later served as minister of energy transition and renewable energies beginning June 24, 2020. Chitour studied chemistry at the National Polytechnic School and the Algerian Institute of Petroleum in Algiers, and earned a doctorate in France from Université Jean Monnet.
He founded the valorization of fossil energy research laboratory and worked as a professor in Toulouse, France.
Chems-Eddine Chitour, 81, Algerian academic and politician, minister of higher education and scientific research (2020).