Fahmi Ben Abdelkader, PhD
Associate Professor of Finance (Teaching)
Other positions:
Academic director of the Executive Master in International Wealth Management at ESCP Business School.
Consultant for The World bank
Visiting lecturer at ESA Beirut.
Fahmi Ben Abdelkader is the academic director of the Executive Master in International Wealth Management at ESCP Business School.
He has more than 15 years of teaching experience in prestigious educational institutions, namely ESCP Business School and Sorbonne University of Paris1, as well as ESSEC Business School and HEC Paris.
He is responsible of the corporate finance courses in internationally recognized masters, including the EMBA (Ranked 3rd worldwide by the financial Times) and the Master in Management (Ranked 4th) at ESCP.
Since 2014, he has taught more than 1000 executives including non-financial managers, entrepreneurs, board directors, lawyers from more than 50 different countries and nationalities. He has designed customized training programs and workshops for managers and board directors of international corporations.
In 2023, he won the best teacher award by ESCP faculty as well as the best teacher award by the MIM students (Master In Management).
He has taught a wide range of courses in Corporate Finance and Economics, such as Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Valuation, Financial Strategy, Behavioral Finance, etc.
Fahmi holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a master’s degree in International Economics from Sorbonne University of Paris1.
In 2011, he won the International Doctoral Prize for Research Work in Economic Studies by the CEDIMES Institute, in recognizing “his expertise on the economies of the MENA region and in endorsing his analysis of institutional change and development in this region".
He has co-authored a book on the role of governance institutions in the development process in the MENA region (Institutions de gouvernance, confiance et développement dans les pays arabes.
Éditions l’Harmattan. 2014 ; Associated press article La Tunisie piégée par le capitalisme clanique, Le Monde, 17 avril 2014.)
He has served as a consultant to the World Bank where he conducted surveys on corporate governance systems of State Owned Enterprises in the MENA region. He has also contributed to surveys on “Private Sector Diagnostics” in this region.
He has worked at Labex ReFi (Excellence Laboratory on Financial Regulation) as a scientific coordinator and a member of its Executive Committee.