Mohamed Mezghani has worked for more than 30 years in public transport and urban mobility-related fields. He has been the Secretary General of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) since 1st January 2018. He has been Deputy Secretary General of UITP from January 2014 to December 2017. Until then, he has worked at UITP as Senior Manager (1999-2001) and Knowledge Director (2001-2006), chairing the department developing knowledge-related services for UITP members: professional training, research projects, thematic studies, technical advice, conferences, networking activities, information centre, etc. From 2006 to 2013, he worked as an independent consultant and Adviser to UITP on several technical assistance and training projects in Africa and the Middle East. He managed several projects involving numerous experts and multidisciplinary teams.
Before joining UITP, M. Mezghani worked as a consultant in the French group BCEOM (from 1990 to 1999), particularly in urban mobility. He has managed and carried out projects including policy definition, technical assistance and research activities in several European countries, sub-Saharan Africa, and Arab countries.
During his collaboration with the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management, ADEME (from 1988-1990), M. Mezghani carried out actions to identify and evaluate transport energy efficiency projects likely financed by the Agency in France.
He has been graduated in Industrial Engineering (1987) from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia and has a Master in Transport (1988) from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.
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