Ms. Nisrine Machmouchi

Since 2020, Ms. Nisrine Machmouchi has served as President of the Civil Service Board (CSB), the independent authority responsible for ensuring the legality, neutrality, and professionalism of public employment in Lebanon. She oversees all state personnel matters, including recruitment, appointments, career progression, and remuneration, and ensures that these processes are conducted in accordance with the law. Her leadership has been central to protecting the civil service from political interference, legal irregularities, and arbitrary practices, thereby reinforcing the CSB’s constitutional mandate as the guardian of administrative integrity. Under her stewardship, the CSB has reaffirmed its role as both a constitutional safeguard against administrative capture and a technical pillar of a modern, merit-based public administration aligned with international standards of governance, ethics, transparency, and institutional sustainability. She directs the revision of organizational frameworks, the drafting of essential legislative and regulatory texts governing public servants, and the issuance of binding legal opinions that determine the validity and legality of administrative decrees and personnel decisions.

As part of Lebanon’s ongoing public administration modernization, Ms. Machmouchi is currently is currently implementing a solid public administration reform project in collaboration with the European Union aiming at the modernization of human resource management practices, digital transformation of administrative processes, and the comprehensive revision of civil service legislation. Regionally and internationally, she represents Lebanon in forums with ESCWA, the Venice Commission, the European Union, and other governance networks, promoting competency-based management, institutional ethics, and sustainable public sector reform in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With a Master’s in Law and over 20 years of service at the CSB, she upholds her core principles: legality, neutrality, and effective, enforceable reform.