Ridha Benzarti

Professional Experience

Dr. Ridha Benzarti is a Senior Consultant in Economic Impact Assessment, Kaizen Consulting. He worked as an expert in developing the national accounts and statistics across Africa and the Arab world. He previously served as Director General of National Accounts at Tunisia’s National Institute of Statistics and lectured at the National School of Administration of Tunisia. He led the development of national satellite accounts for the Ministry of Tourism in Saudi Arabia and directed major modernization efforts in Tunisia, steering the transition from the 1968 UN SNA to SNA 1993, including input–output tables and GDP estimation models. He has also overseen the publication of firm-level statistics and the creation of national statistical portals and open-data platforms.

Practical Expertise

Dr. Benzarti has designed and implemented national accounts systems for more than a dozen African countries (including Madagascar, Cameroon, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, and Niger), developed business registers, and launched enterprise surveys that distinguish structured firms from micro-enterprises. His reforms enhanced integration of tax records, social security data, and financial disclosures, and he has participated in ICP purchasing power parity comparisons. As a lead trainer and national expert, he has delivered IMF, ESCWA, AfDB, and Eurostat programs to strengthen statistical capacity and data quality, and authored methodological manuals on national accounts and descriptive statistics used across multiple countries.

Education & Training

Dr. Benzarti holds a PhD in in Applied Statistics & Economics (Rabat) and a Postgraduate Diploma in National Accounts Planning (Institute for Training and Development, Paris), alongside advanced SNA 1993 training (Libourne, France).