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Hotel Sousse Palace
Avenue Habib Bourguiba, Sousse
Sousse, Sousse, 4000
Tunisia

Amira Cheniour

Software Engineer

Basically a Software Engineer, Amira is an Agripreneur 5.0, Co-founder and CEO of Seabex where. She has more than 8 years of experience in business and project management. Co-founder of two start-ups, a tech follower, The star-female entrepreneur of 2017 by Ye during the G20 in Berlin. Women in Africa Laureate of 2018 and the social Entrepreneur in MENA of 2018 by Orange Tunisie. Amira is an active woman in the community life and worked in many initiatives to improve the situation of the IT and entrepreneurship community in Tunisia.

Jihed Saad

Clothing engineer and environmental activist

With a master's degree in Management of clothing industry, Jihed has managed various business related and environmental projects in private and nongovernmental organization, where he implemented a project entitled “Tunisian Blue Ambassadors.” As part of this project, they trained youth from five different governorates in Tunisia in marine life and environmental science.Jihed has invented an anti-burn T-shirt for kids and co-founded his startup :“S&J Safety Jeans” a clothing company that works in designing and manufacturing of safety clothes.

Olfa Youssef

Writer specializing in Arabic linguistics, psychoanalysis and Applied Islamic Studies

Olfa Youssef is a Tunisian university professor and a writer specializing in Arabic linguistics, psychoanalysis and Applied Islamic Studies. Her publications deal with themes related to Islam, the Quran, the place of women in Islam, religious freedom and cross-religious dialogue. She occupied various administrative positions. Committed against fundamentalism, Olfa Youssef proposes an open reading without taboos sacred texts, presenting in her books a new reading of the Muslim tradition.

Omar Guiga

CEO of Wallyscar, a Tunisian car manufacturer

Omar Guiga is a Tunisian entrepreneur known as the co-founder, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Wallyscar, a Tunisian car manufacturer. Guiga studied law at the Queen Mary College, University of London. At the end of 2010 when he graduated from college in London, Guiga saw changes coming through the beginning of the Arab spring and decided to return to Tunisia in order to join his brother Zied Guiga as Wallyscar COO and co-founder. Guiga created a network of small car suppliers in Tunisia and in the region. Omar Guiga and Zied Guiga, co-founders of Wallycar, are widely recognized as pioneers of the automobile manufacturing in Tunisia. Wallyscar is the first and only African and Arab car manufacturer to export its vehicles around Europe.

Ralph Warren

cross-cultural service and a Pastor

Ralph Warren left a career in journalism to engage in a life of cross-cultural service, a journey that has taken him to four countries over the past 25 years. He has a master’s degree in Inter-Cultural Studies and urges his audiences to consider counter-cultural approaches to make the world a better place as they never lose their sense of curiosity.Ralph currently serves as Pastor of Sousse Church and has taught French, Critical Thinking and Cross-Cultural Studies at every level from middle school to graduate school. He has also founded non-profit organizations that have served the local community during his career in Côte d’Ivoire, France, Turkey, Tunisia and the United States.