Youssef Belgacem has a Bachelor Degree in English and he is now an International Relations Master’s Degree student. He is one of the co-founders of I WATCH Tunisia organization. I WATCH is a Tunisian watchdog organization created after the revolution in March 2011. It works mainly on two axes: Guaranteeing transparency and fighting corruption. It has become Transparency International’s national contact in Tunisia since 2013. Youssef has been the Asset Recovery Project’s Director since April 2014. It is a project implemented by I WATCH, in Tunisia, in partnership with Transparency International.
In addition, Youssef took the lead on a project on local governance and participatory democracy in Tunisia. He also had an experience as an international elections’ observer with The Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA). He observed the presidential elections in Egypt in 2012 and the parliamentarian elections in Libya in 2014.