Experience

More than three decades of institutional leadership and applied expertise across entrepreneurship, innovation, employability, transfer and higher education.

Professional trajectory

A career built by creating successive institutional mechanisms.

The purpose of this timeline is to show accumulated institutional capability, not to reproduce a LinkedIn résumé.

Nov 2025–Present

Independent Senior Expert — Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Strategic advisory, sustainable entrepreneurship, capacity building, Green Business Model Canvas, Green Business Plans and responsible AI-assisted project structuring.

2016–Oct 2025

Director — Student Entrepreneurship Pole (PEE/PEES) and Career & Competency Centers (4C), University of Sfax

Student entrepreneurship, incubation, employability, competency development, professional certification and coordination of a 14-centre 4C network.

C’INNOVANT development period

Director — C’INNOVANT, University of Sfax

Integration of entrepreneurship, employability, technology transfer, coworking, pre-incubation, FabLab and rapid prototyping mechanisms. Documentation shows earlier C’INNOVANT activity by 2018; the site avoids fixing a single start date while source reconciliation continues.

From 2012

Head / leadership responsibility — University Technology Transfer mechanisms

Research valorisation, technology transfer, collaborative R&D and university–industry partnerships, including BUTT and international transfer projects.

2000–2016

University Center for Integration & Spin-off (CUIES) — University of Sfax

Career integration, entrepreneurship education, venture support and university-to-economy mechanisms. The documentary base distinguishes preparatory activity from the formalisation of CUIES in 2005.

From 1997

Digital and institutional innovation mechanisms — University of Sfax

Development of BNTUS and later structures related to digital services, educational technology, innovation, research valorisation and technology transfer.