Beji, Faryel

Tunis, President and CEO, Tunisian Internet Agency

 

Mrs. Beji holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and an MS in Computer Science engineering. She is a professor and researcher at the University of Tunis School of Computer Science, and has issued 77 publications in the field of Internet studies. She is member of the Chairs for the Middle East, African and Emerging Nations IPv6 Task Force, the Ipv6 Forum in Tunisia, and AINC. She also coordinated a number of international research and education projects such as CMCU (Franco Tunisian University Cooperation Committee) and AUPELF (Francophone Agency for Higher Education and Research). She previously held the positions of INRIA and CNRS researcher in France, teaching assistant at the University of Nancy (France), visiting researcher to the Universities of Brussels, California and Toronto, and visiting researcher to the power plant of Cadrarache in France. She also served as director in charge of the Internet at the Cabinet of the Tunisian Secretary of State for Informatics.