Keynote Speakers

Mahmoud Sami NABI occupies the position of Economic Advisor at the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. He is a Professor of Economics with more than twenty years of experience in research, teaching and consultancy. He occupied the position of Senior Research Economist at the Institute of the Islamic Development Bank from June 2011 to November 2013 and served as Vice-Director of Sousse Business School from October 2008 to May 2011. Mr. Nabi holds an Engineering Diploma from Tunisia Polytechnic School, and a PhD in economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Imed Drine is currently Manager of Economic Research at the Islamic Development Bank and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Sorbonne University. He previously served as a Research Fellow at the United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research in Finland. He also served as associate professor of economics and Head of Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sousse in Tunisia. Imed is a macroeconomist and econometrician, and his recent research focuses on Growth, youth unemployment, and private sector, with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa.