CURRICULUM VITAE MONGI BOUGHZALA
1. Family name: BOUGHZALA 2. First names: Mongi 3. Date of birth: 14 DEC 1947 4. Nationality: TUNISIAN 5. Civil status: Married 6. Education: Institution Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: [ Date from - Date to ] UNIVERSIT OF Master’s and PH.D, Economics MINNESOTA, Economics Department, Minneapolis1970-1978 UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS, B.S. Economics Faculty of Economics and Law, 1966-1970 7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic) Language Reading Speaking Writing ARABIC (mother 1 1 1 tongue) ENGLISH 1 1 1 FRENCH 1 1 1
8. Membership of professional bodies: ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM (board member), FEMISE (Board member) 9. Computer skills: Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS, Eviews... Present position: Emeritus Professor of economics, University of Tunis El Manar Years within the firm: 39 10. Key qualifications: Research, teaching, studies and consulting in macroeconomic policy, labour market, monetary policy and trade. 11. Specific experience in the region: Country Date from - Date to Tunisia Many studies Morocco June to august 2004, country macroeconomist as a consultant, African Development Bank Yemen December 2002, the evaluation of the Macroeconomic and employment policies in Yemen (ILO) Syria October 2005- January 2006, preparation of the 10th Five Years Plan (FYP), as a macroeconomist (UNDP) with a focus on public finance, monetary policy and employment Algeria June to September 2007, consultant, African Development Bank Mauritania June 2015, Consultant, Rural youth employment, FAO
12. Professional experience ACADAMIC Date from Location Company& reference person Position Description - Date to (name & contact details) 2014 to Tunis Retired from the University of Tunis El Manar present ______Tunis University of Tunis ElManar 1987 to Professor Teaching (microeconomics, macroeconomic policy, Faculty of Economics and 2013 monetary theory and policy, trade, public economics,…) Business of Tunis and advising graduate students President: Pr. Fethi Sellaouti Research Tel: +216 71 889085 I was Chairman of the economics department, from 1990 to 1993, And Dean of the «Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Tunis El Manar», from April 1993 to April 1996. In 1996 when this school included approximately 6000 students and 200 faculty members. As the Dean, I had various challenging management duties including management of staff, training and research programs, budget, international cooperation, chairing the board of the school and a number of major committees… 1982-87 Tunis Faculty of Economics and Associate Teaching (microeconomics, trade, public economics, Business of Tunis Professor macroeconomic policy, monetary theory and policy…) and advising graduate students for Master’s and doctoral University Tunis III thesis Research 1976-1982 Tunis Faculty of Economics and Law Assistant of Tunis Professor University of Tunis
CONSULTING:
June-July Tunisian Ministry of 1998 Tunis Vocational Training and Labor Team leader - «Incitations et Emploi » The study was directly supervised by the Minister, who was Dr. Moncer ROUISSI Tunisian Ministry of - “La rentabilité de la formation continue en 1999 Tunis Team leader Vocational Training and Labor Tunisie”
World Bank - “Development of the Bond Market in June 2000 Tunis Team leader Tunisia”, ILO - “Macroeconomic Stability and Employment Dec 2001- Sanaa, Team leader Mr Sadok Haj Hassine (retired Friendly Growth in Yemen” January Yemen from ILO) 2002 OPEC - “Private sector assessment and development July- Tunis Team leader Dr. Maurice GIRIGIS in Tunisia” September LTC TECHNO ECONOMICS 2004 RESEARCH GROUP Inc. 204 Dalton Dr, Suite 100, Raleigh, NC 27615, USA
African Development Bank - In charge of several missions on economic June-August Tunis and Country Georges BeneHoane w.bene- reforms in Morocco. 2004 Rabat economist as [email protected] a consultant +21671 10 2144 European Training Foundation - “Study on the functioning of the labour Dec 2004 Tunis In charge of (EU), TURIN, IItaly markets in Tunisia and the implications for the Country Henrik Huitfeldt employment policy and training systems” study [email protected]
European Training Foundation 2005 Tunis in charge of (EU) - “Study on the VET systems in Algeria, the Tunisian Karl-Axel Skjolstrup Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia case [email protected] - African Development Bank 2005 Tunis Consultant - Local Governance in Tunisia, (2005) African Development Bank UNDP - Preparation of the Tenth National Development October Damascus (consultant) Darim Al-Bassam Plan; I contributed to the employment, public 2006 Syria +216 71740078 finance and monetary policy chapters African Development Bank - In charge of several missions on financial June- Tunis and Consultant Lotfi CHAKROUN reforms in Algeria September Algiers Tel: 216 71 102033 2007 European Commission & “Study on the Existing Level of Liberalisation in August Tunis Consultant DEVELOPMENT Solutions Selected Services Sectors”, under the European December 22 Russet Glade, Emmer Commission. 2008 Green, - Reading, RG48UJ, Berkshire United Kingdom Represented by Mr Steven Chaytor, Tel: +44(0)1189482805 Fax: +44(0)1189482805
World Bank Institute - Analyzing the impacts of NTBs and Regional Mai 2009 Tunis Trade Agreements on Trade of Agricultural and Food Commodities: the Case of Tunisia (2009) (World Bank Institute Study)
UNDP and Ministry of - Youth unemployment, a study based on the February Tunis Team Leader Employment case of the governorates of Gafsa and KEF 2010
African Development Bank - Capacity Development January to Tunis Consultant Under the supervision of Pr. June 2012 Victor MURINDE [email protected] Brookings - Research on the issues that face SMEs in June 2012 to Tunis Consultant Under the supervision of Dr. Tunisia and writing a paper addressing these February Hafez Ghanem issues 2013 [email protected]
GIZ 2013 Tunis Team leader Directed by Ali Abaab Plan régional d’environnement et de développement [email protected] durable (PREDD) du Gouvernorat du Kef
World Bank 2014 Tunis consultant The retail sector in Tunisia
Observatoire National de la 2014 Tunis Consultant Jeunesse, Tunisie Contribution au rapport annuel sur la jeunesse élaboré Directed by Mr. Foued OUNI par l’Observatoire National de la Jeunesse [email protected] GIZ 2014 Tunis Team leader Directed by Ali Abaab Plan régional d’environnement et de développement [email protected] durable (PREDD) du Gouvernorat du Kef, phase 2 ERF 2014 Tunis Team Leader Under te supervision of Pr. A study on the Tunisian labor market: conducting a field Ragui ASSAD, survey in cooperation with INS (the national statistical [email protected] institute) and writing a report.
World Bank 2014 Tunis Consultant Under the supervision of Ms. Writing a paper on « tertiary education and Nina Arnhold employability » [email protected] FAO 2015 Algiers, Consultant A PCR on youth employment in rural areas Tunis, Rabat, Nouakchot
13. PUBLICATIONS and RESEARCH Ph.D. dissertation: - «Prices vs. Quantities as Instruments of Plan Implementation », (1978), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1978, under the direction of Professor Leonid HURWICZ, Nobel Price in economics 2007.
Papers - «Prix et Choix publics », (1984) Revue Tunisienne d’Economie et de Gestion (RTEG), Volume 1, N° 2. 1984
- «Agriculture et possibilités d’emploi de la population rurale (1987), Revue Tunisienne d’Economie et de Gestion RTEG, Volume 2, N° 4, 1987.
- « La protection réhabilitée », (1991), Annales d’Economie et de Gestion, FSEG de Tunis, Université de Tunis, Vol 1 N° 1, 1991.
- «Libéralisation Agricole en Tunisie et Politique Agricole Commune », (1992), co-authored with Mohamed Elloumi, Economie Rurale n° 211, Septembre - Octobre 1992, a publication of«la Société Française d’Economie Rurale».
- «Economic Reforms and their Distributional Effects in Tunisia », (1993), in «Economic Reforms and their Distributive impact », Cairo University, 1993.
- Information Flows, Planning and Decision Making in Tunisia » (1994), in Arabic, in « Information Issues, Planning and Decision Making in the Arab Countries », The Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait.
- «Agricultural and Food Policy in Tunisia », (1994), with B. Thabet and B. Ben Ammar, « Options Méditerranéennes », Vol 7, Montpellier, France.
- “Questions de Choix Stratégiques” (1995), in “Lectures stratégiques”, Institute of Strategic Studies, Tunis, 1995.
- «Impact on Workers of Reduced Trade Barriers: The Case of Tunisia and Morocco » (1997), International Labour Review, vol. 136 (1997), No. 3 (autumn).
- « Returns to Vocational Training » (1999), a paper presented at the Sixth Annual Conference, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (ERF), Cairo, October 1999.
- "Why is the Rate of Unemployment so High in Developing Countries" (2000), ERF research project, "the Determinants of Unemployment", presented at the 8th annual conference, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (ERF), Cairo, January 2002.
- “Budget Institutions and Expenditures Performances in Tunisia“, written in 2002, forthcoming in “Institutions and Budget Performance”, edited by Hadi Salehi Esfahani.
- “Trade Policy and Exchange Rate Regimes in Tunisia”, (2003), in "Competitiveness in The MENA Countries ", edited by Subidey Togan and Hanaa Kheir El Din, ERF Research Report Series.
- "Fiscal Incentives and Investments, the case of Tunisia(2003), in "Competitiveness in The MENA Countries ", edited by Subidey Togan and Hanaa Kheir El Din, ERF Research Report Series.
- "Labor Cost and labor Market Flexibility in Tunisia" (2003), in “Competitiveness in The MENA Countries ", edited by Subidey Togan and Hanaa Kheir El Din, ERF Research Report Series.
- "Search and Unemployment in Tunisia, an Empirical Assessment", (2004), ERF research project, "the Determinants of Unemployment", Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (ERF). http://www.gdnet.org/cf/search/display.cfm?search=GDNDOCS&act=DOC&docnu m=DOC9591
- “Unemployment and the Informal sector”, (2004), Wider conference “Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and the Formal Sectors, UNU- WIDER, September 2004, Helsinki, Finland.
- “Trade, employment and Wages in Tunisia: An Integrated and Dynamic CGE model (2006), with Sami Bibi, Hedi Bchir, Rim Chatti and Taoufik Rajhi, a Femise project, www.femise.org.
- “Liberalizing the banking Sector in Tunisia”, (2006), in “The Liberalization o f Trade of services in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey”, a research project supported by “FEMISE, completed with Lahcen Achy, Hana Kheireldine an Subidey Togan. www.femise.org
- “The liberalization of Telecommunication in Tunisia”(2006) in “The Liberalization o f Trade of services in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey”, a research project supported by “FEMISE, completed with Lahcen Achy, Hana Kheireldine an dsubidey Togan. www.femise.org
- “Liberalizing Maritime Transportation in Tunisia”(2006), in “The Liberalization o f Trade of services in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey”, a research project supported by “FEMISE, completed with Lahcen Achy, Hana Kheireldine and Subidey Togan. www.femise.org
- “Liberalization of the Banking Sector” (2007), Co-authored with Dhafer Saïdane, Saving and Development, Quarterly Review, N° 2-2007-XXXI
- “Credibility of Inflation Targeting in Morocco and Tunisia” (2007), presented at the 8th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence- Monticatini Terme, 21-25 March 2007
- “Inflation Targeting and Financial Fragility in Tunisia” (2009), in “Monetary Policy and Central banking in the Middle East and North Africa”, edited by David Cobham and Ghassan Dibeh, Routledge, 2009.
- “Inflation Targeting in MENA Countries: An Unfinished Journey (2011)”, Edited by Mongi Boughzala (University of El-Manar, Tunis) and David Cobham (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh), Palgrave 2011.
- “Youth Employment and Economic Transition in Tunisia(2016)”, in “The Arab Spring Five Years Later”, Case Studies, Volume 2, Edited by Hafez Ghanem, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC. 2016.
- “Rural and Regional Development and Inequality in Tunisia: Promoting Inclusive Growth in Arab Countries” (2016), in “The Arab Spring Five Years Later”, Case Studies, Volume 2, Edited by Hafez Ghanem, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC. 2016.