Ghazi Ben Ahmed is the Director of the MENA Partnership for Democracy & Development, which is based in the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ office in Tunis, Tunisia.

Ben Ahmed is the founder of the Club de Tunis, a Tunisian think tank that helps policymakers devise strategies for economic growth and regional development and empowers both the private sector and NGOs in Tunisia and North Africa as engines for regional integration, job creation, and shared prosperity.

Previously, Ben Ahmed was the lead trade expert in the African Development Bank (AfDB), in charge of the $1 billion Trade Finance Initiative of the Bank. Before joining the AfDB, he was senior advisor at the United Nation Agency for Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He worked for nearly ten years in the European Commission in Brussels, in the Trade, EuropeAid, and External Relations directorates-general. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Montpellier I (France).

Languages: Mr. Ben Ahmed speaks fluent English as well as Arabic, French , Italian, Spanish and Greek.