Hamza Meddeb is a nonresident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East
Center, where his research focuses on politics of economic reform and the political economy
of conflicts and insecurity across the Middle East and North Africa. 
Meddeb is also assistant professor at the South Mediterranean University (SMU) in Tunis.
Prior to that, Meddeb was a research fellow at the Middle East Directions Program at the
European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, a visiting fellow at the European
Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) from September to December 2016, and a Jean Monnet
fellow at EUI from 2013 to 2015, where he focused on political transition and inequality in
Tunisia.
Meddeb’s research interests lies at the intersection of political economy, security studies, and
sociopolitical dynamics in Tunisia and North Africa. He also covers EU-Mediterranean
relations and the growing activism of non-Euro-Mediterranean actors in the Mediterranean.
CURRENT POSITION
CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER, Beirut, Lebanon 
Non-Resident Scholar, March 2018 – present

SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERISTY / THE MEDITERRANEAN SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS, Tunis, Tunisia 
Assistant Professor, April 2019 –  
 
PREVIOUS POSITIONS 
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE / MIDDLE EAST DIRECTIONS
PROGRAMME, ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES,
Florence, Italy
Research Fellow, September 2016 – April 2019
ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, CHATHAM HOUSE,
London, UK
Associate Fellow with the MENA Programme and Project Leader: Economic
Transformations in North Africa, Sept 2017 – August 2018    
CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER, Beirut, Lebanon 
Non-Resident Scholar, January 2015 – March 2016
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUE / THE MEDITERRANEAN PROGRAM,
ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES, Florence, Italy
Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow, Sept 2013 – August 2015