Chancellor of Ajman University since December 2016, United Arab Emirates.

He is a member of:

• Harvard Business Review Arabia Advisory Board.
• Indian Governing Council for Colleges and Universities (I-GAUGE).
• EQUIS Accreditation Committee.
• Accreditation Commission of the Association of African Business Schools.

He served as Dean of the School of Business Administration at the American University in Cairo from 2014 to 2016, and as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Management at the School of Business at the same university from 2011 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as an assistant professor at the same university.

He served as an assistant professor of economics at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon from 2004 to 2006. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Chile in 2010 and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2003. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Nova University in Portugal from 2002 to 2004.

He also launched academic and executive initiatives in strategic areas such as entrepreneurship, family businesses, international business in the Middle East and North Africa region, retail banking, and the GoGlobal Executive Education Program. During his tenure as dean, the School of Business at the American University in Cairo partnered with the Commercial International Bank to launch a FinTech Incubator initiative.

He was selected as a member of the committees of several regional and international events concerned with developing management and business education programs, such as the AACSB, EFMD, and PRME, in addition to the Economic Research Forum and the World Bank. He also participated in external evaluation teams for the international accreditation committees of the AACSB and EQUIS, for the benefit of several higher education institutions in countries across the region and around the world.

His research focuses on mathematical economics, general equilibrium theory, financial markets, and credit markets. His research has been published in specialized journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics. He has also served as a reviewer for several journals, including Economic Theory and the Journal of Mathematical Economics.

He holds a PhD in Mathematical Economics and Finance from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Paris I in 2002, a Master of Science in Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance from the same university in 1998, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Tunis in 1997.