Olfa Saddoud Debbabi is a senior researcher and curator of fruit tree genetic resources at the National Genebank of Tunisia. She received her PhD in Genetic and Molecular Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis,Tunisia, in 2007. She is a member of the national and sectoral commissions for plant variety protection. Now, she is the national coordinator of Project Tunisia Italy for Tunisian plant genetic resources conservation and valorization (Italian cooperation). She is a specialist in genetics and the use of of molecular markers for genetic resource conservation and evaluation.