Najla Bouden, also known as Najla Bouden Romdhane[1] (Tunisian Arabic: نجلاء بودن رمضان, romanized: Najlāʾ Būdan Ramḍān; born 29 June 1958), is a Tunisian geologist and university professor who served as the prime minister of Tunisia from October 2021 to August 2023.

Her work has focused on seismic hazards, which led her to train many executives of the Tunisian Petroleum Activities Company.

[7] In September 2016, she was responsible for the $70 million World Bank-funded program "PromEssE" to reform and "modernize" university education in order to help alleviate widespread unemployment among Tunisian graduates, a major social issue in the country.

[8] On 29 September 2021, amid the Tunisian political crisis, President Kais Saied announced that he had appointed Najla Bouden to form the country's new government.

[9] The first woman to take up this office, her appointment as head of the Tunisian government made her a pioneer in the country, in the Maghreb, as well as in the Arab world.