Mehdi Ben Braham is Assistant Professor at Higher School of Statistics and Information Analysis of Tunis, (ESSAI, Tunisia) and Scientific Coordinator in the CRES research center in Tunisia (Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes Sociales). His research focuses on social protection and economic growth based on micro and macroeconomic analyses in North Africa.During the period 2006-2008 he worked as a fellow in the Networks Financial Institute in Indianapolis.As an Associate researcher at LEGI research center in Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie and CREM in Caen University, he was the Scientific cofounder of ESIRAMed Networks (Social Economy, Responsible Investment and Insurance in North Africa) where he develops comparative studies between Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.He holds a PhD from Paris Dauphine University in 2005. His thesis was on Pension reform and economic growth in emerging markets with a simulation on the Tunisian case.