Mustapha Bouzaiene

Professional Experience

Mustapha Bouzaiene is a senior statistician-economist with more than 30 years of experience in national accounts, macroeconomic statistics, and official data systems. He currently serves as Director General and Head of the National Accounts Department at the National Statistical Institute (NSI) of Tunisia, Ministry of Economy and Planning. His career includes leadership roles such as Acting Director General of the NSI, Director General of the Economic Situation Observatory, and senior consultancy roles with the African Development Bank, Arab Maghreb Union, and African Capacity Building Foundation. He has extensive experience supervising annual and quarterly national accounts, satellite accounts, and economic indicators, contributing to Tunisia’s transition to the UN 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA).

Practical Expertise

Bouzaiene’s expertise covers annual and quarterly accounts compilation, tourism and digital economy satellite accounts, goods and services accounts, supply-use tables, and high-frequency economic indicators. He has steered national rebasement projects, developed monitoring tools for short-term economic conditions, and designed GDP estimation models. Regionally, he has implemented national accounts and statistical reforms in multiple African countries, supported AfDB’s initiatives on long-term finance and regional data harmonization, and contributed to international price comparison programs under ICP. He is also part of the UNWTO expert roster as a Tourism Statistics and Satellite Accounts specialist, and has published methodological papers and economic bulletins.

Education & Training

Mustapha holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics and Statistics from ENSAE Paris, a Statistician-Economist Engineering Diploma from ENSEA Abidjan/CESD Paris, and preparatory studies in advanced mathematics from Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris. His training also includes advanced use of statistical software (SAS, SPSS, Eviews, STATA) and database systems (SQL, Access). He is a member of the French Association of National Accounting (ACN) and the Tunisian Engineers Council (COI). Fluent in Arabic, French, and English, with working knowledge of Italian.