Dr Mounir Belloumi is a distinguished Tunisian academic and economist who is a full professor of quantitative methods and econometrics. He specialises in the economics of development, the environment, and energy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tunis El Manar, specializing in Development Economics. He previously served as Dean of the prestigious Institut des Hautes Études Commerciales (IHEC) in Sousse from 2008 to 2011. He has also taught internationally as a professor at Najran University in Saudi Arabia. Professor Belloumi's quantitative research focuses on critical macroeconomic and environmental issues. He is consistently recognized by Stanford University and Elsevier as being among the top 2% of scientists worldwide for his highly cited publications.