Hichem Mechichi (Arabic: هشام المشيشي; born January 1974)[1][2] is a Tunisian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Tunisia, from September 2020 to July 2021, when he was unconstitutionally dismissed by President Kais Saied who dissolved the parliament, the higher council of justice, the elected county councils, the anti-corruption commission, and monopolized all state powers.

[3] He is also a former student of the long international cycle, of the Republic promotion (2005–2007) of the National School of Administration of France, the institution paying tribute to him via its website after his appointment as head of government.

[4] Mechichi was a member of the National Commission of Investigation on Corruption and Embezzlement, founded in 2011 and chaired by Abdelfattah Amor.

[1] He was then Director General of the National Agency for the Sanitary and Environmental Control of Products.

[8] After a series of protests, the Tunisian president dismissed Mechichi as prime minister on 25 July.