Dr. Mondher Ben Ayed

Dr. Mondher Ben Ayed is a Tunisian entrepreneur, engineer, and academic. He is the president and CEO of TMI, a leading company in the field of information and communication technologies, and Oradist, a distributor of Oracle products and services in Tunisia. He is also a former professor of computer engineering at the University of Rochester, where he obtained his PhD in 1990. He holds an MS and a BS in electrical engineering from the same institution.

Dr. Ben Ayed is also active in civil society. He currently serves on the boards of the Tunisian Association of Business Leaders (IACE) and the Tunisian American Friendship Association (TAFA, in addition to his service on the Amideast board. Previously he has held the positions of president of the Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce (2007 to 2009), private sector coordinator for the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis (2005), and vice president of the Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce (1994 to 2007).