Riadh ZGHAL
Professeur émérite | Tunisie | FSEG de Sfax
Riadh ZGHAL née Chaabouni is a Professor Emeritus, currently working as a consultant. She holds a Doctorate of State in Management Sciences obtained at The Institute of Business Administration of Aix-En-Provence, specialized in human resources management and a PhD in sociology from Aix-Marseille University, specialty sociology of work. Her State doctoral thesis was published in 1994 by the Tunis University Publications Center under the title “The culture of dignity and the blurring of organization, culture and organizational behavior, the Tunisian case”. Riadh Zghal published several books and scientific articles in Arabic, English and French. She led a study that was the subject of a book published in 2014 by CREDIF entitled “Economic empowerment of women: employment and entrepreneurship. Former elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax from 1993 to 1996 and member of the National Committee for the Evaluation of Research Activities (CNEAR) from 2003 to 2011 she was a visiting professor in Germany, France and Finland. As a consultant she has led and contributed to several studies and actions driven by national and international organizations including the FAO, UNDP (Tunis), IFAD (Rome), IFPRI (Washington), AUPELF UREF ( Montreal), ALECSO (Tunis), the Arab Women Organization (Cairo), UNIDO (Tunis). She participated in public life as president of the cultural committee of Sfax, Chair of the Committee for Finance and Resource Development in the Municipality of Sfax, a member of the Economic and Social Council and member of the Chamber of Advisers. She co-founded associations including the Tunisian Association for Entrepreneurship and Positive Externalities (ATUPEE) which she chaired from 2006 to 2011. She is currently a member of the “wise people comittee” of the National Confederation of Citizen Enterprises of Tunisia (CONECT).
