Areas of Interest:

• Firm’s performance
• Micro and SME’s firms
• Productivity
• Entrepreneurship
• Private Sector
• Labor Market
• Women’s labor force participation
• Structural change and deindustrialization in MENA countries

Education:

• HDR in Economics, 2002.
• Ph.D., Economy, Faculté de Science Economique et de Gestion de Dijon, 1994
• M.A., Economic Analysis and Econometrics, Université de Bourgogne (Dijon), 1989
• B.A., Economic Analysis and Econometrics, Faculté de Science Economique et de Gestion de Tunis, 1988

Experience:

• Full Professor, Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises, Present.
• Member of T20 Africa Standing Group (a think tank group within the framework of G20) (since 2017).
• Member of the “Conseil d’Analyse Economique” with an advisory role to the Tunisian government (2015-2016).
• Consultant at the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies, consultant at the Tunisian Institute of Quantitative Economics, consultant at the PNUD, consultant at the World Bank, consultant at  the African Bank of development, consultant at the ILO (since 2001).
• Chair of Department, Economie et Méthodes Quantitatives, L’ISCAE 1997-2002

Latest of Publications:

• “Structural transformation in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia: patterns, drivers and constraints”, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, forthcoming.
• « The employment intensity of growth or how to understand the jobless growth issue: evidence from Tunisia", Journal of Economic Development, Volume 43, Number 3, September 2018, with Monia Ghazali.
• "Women in the Tunisian Labor Market" chapter contribution in a book "Employment and Unemployment in Tunisia", edited by Ragui Assad and Mongi Boughzala, ERF project, 2017, Oxford University Press, with Goaed Mohamed.