Nizar Ben Néji (born 27 June 1981) is a Tunisian politician, and former minister of communication technologies, serving at this position from 2021 to 2024.

In 2013, he joined the University of Carthage in Tunisia, as lecturer and researcher, first at the Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte (FSB), and later at the Higher School of Communications of Tunis (Sup'com).

Dr. Ben Neji was actively involved as Information and communications technology expert at an international level with Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization (AICTO), in delivering seminars and projects in wide variety of subjects related specially to cybersecurity and cybercriminality.

[7] During his term of minister of communication technologies, Dr. Ben Neji spearheaded the design and implementation of the Tunisia’s National Digital Transformation Strategy 2025, structured around 8 axes of development and including an action plan with over 80 projects.

During his mandate, Dr. Nizar Ben Neji represented Tunisia and has led several institutional delegations in the most important ICT events for leaders of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Arab League, Smart Africa Alliance, Internet Governance Forum (IGF).