Khaled Sellami

Professional Experience

Khaled Sellami is a consultant and trainer in e-government, e-inclusion, and e-participation at Kaizen Consulting, he previously served as Director General of the E-Government Unit in the Prime Ministry of Tunisia. He has held governance roles as a board member of both the Access to Information Authority and the Personal Data Protection Authority, and earlier led the Studies Department at the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies with prior research posts at the Regional Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications. He is currently leading two initiatives to develop governance frameworks, standards, guidelines, and supportive regulations that strengthen government responsiveness.

Practical Expertise

Khaled brings deep expertise in UN e-government indicators, data-sharing policies, freedom of information, and open-data standards. His track record includes national programs in digital transformation, e-participation, beneficiary responsiveness, digital inclusion, e-payments, and open data, as well as building e-consultation and e-complaints platforms. He trains public servants on e-government, participation, responsiveness, open data, access to information, and data protection, and has helped craft legal frameworks for open government—leading teams on right-to-information legislation and open-data policy. With ESCWA, he contributed to open-data and open-government initiatives, including readiness assessments for Jordan and Palestine and a report on legal aspects of open government and open data.

Education & Training

Khaled holds an M.S. in Information Engineering & Computer Control from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He is also a PRINCE2 Practitioner, complementing his policy and technical background with structured project-delivery credentials.