The late Abdelfattah Amor was president of the National Commission of Investigating Corruption and Wrongdoings and the Emeritus President and Dean of the University of Law and Political Science in Tunis. He had also been the president of the International Academy of Constitutional Law and a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Abdelfattah Amor was born on March 4^th, 1943, in Ksar Helal in Monastir, (the eastern coast of Tunisia). He got his first law degree in 1967 from the National School of Administration. In 1968, he got a diploma of advanced studies in public law. The same year, he got a diploma of advanced studies in political sciences from Paris and finally the doctorate in public law and political science in 1974.

Since the early 70s, he held many academic positions at the University of Tunis, such as an assistant lecturer then a senior lecturer in public law and political science. After that, he became the Director of Study and Research at the Law and Political Science Department. He finally became a university professor in 1979. Amor also became Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis and in 1987, he became the official Dean. Amor retained his position until April 1993, when he became the Honorary Dean.

Amor occupied many positions in Tunisia as well as abroad – both in Arab and western countries.

He was an expert at the Arab League and a general reporter of the National Commission on the Protection of Educational Institutions (1991) as well as a council member of the Arab Thought Club, launched in Amman Jordan.

His political life started in 1987 when he joined Tunisia’s Constitutional Council until 1992.

In 1993, Amor decided to join the International Community as a special reporter for the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and he was a U.N. representative in many forums such as the International Consultative Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tolerance and Nondiscrimination in Madrid, which he presided over in 2001. He was very prolific and worked on many reports for the United Nations, such as the Report on the Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance.

Given the crucial role he played on the national and international levels, Abdelfattah Amor was honored many times, and received plenty of Decorations such as the Order of the Republic, the Order of Educational Merit, National Human Rights Prize (1998), and the Spanish Order of Merit.

In 2011, after the Tunisian Revolution, Abdelfattah Amor was selected to form a commission called the “National Commission of Investigating Corruption and Wrongdoings,” which he was to also lead. The commission started gathering information and getting corruption files of the former regime, and after about ten months of work, the commission finalized a report documenting cases of corruption within the old regime. A copy of the report was handed to the interim President Foued Mebazzaa by Abdelfattah Amor in a ceremony honoring the commission’s work.