Dr. Rim Belhassine-Cherif has worked for the incumbent telecom operator in Tunisia “Tunisie Telecom” since 1994. She has occupied the post of Products and Services Development Director since 2007 and then was promoted to Executive Director in 2011. She is mainly responsible of new products and services study (mobile, fix, Internet, Enterprises and Data), offers and promotions development and technical launch, solutions engineering (enterprises, voice, multimedia, messaging and content) and she is the head of Research, Development and Innovation department. Dr. Belhassine-Cherif has participated in several ITU conferences, seminars and Workshops and she is currently a vice-chair of ITU-T SG13 and its Regional Group for Africa (SG13RG-AFR); she was also a vice-chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on Bridging the Gap: from Innovation to Standards. Besides, Dr. Belhassine-Cherif has several contributions as Tunisie Telecom’s delegate in national and international events, related to both professional and academic fields, in which she participated as a speaker, panellist and moderator. Dr. Belhassine-Cherif graduated from the Higher School of Posts and Telecommunications of Tunis in 1994. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the National Engineering School of Tunis in 2002 and obtained in 2010 an Executive MBA from Paris-Dauphine University and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. In the academic field, she performed several research activities in the domain of telecommunications and electrical engineering and she is the author of many papers published in international and national conferences and scientific journals.
