Amel Karboul

Her Excellency Dr. Amel Karboul is CEO of the Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East. She is a social entrepreneur, chairwoman, author, and politician who is passionate about nurturing a new generation of responsible leaders and building bridges between the private and public sectors and civil society to solve today’s global challenges.

Until February 2015, Dr. Karboul was Minister of Tourism in the Tunisian transition government that was appointed after the successful quartet negotiations during which she was nominated as one of the 10 leading young African politicians. She has held leadership roles at Mercedes-Benz and DaimlerChrysler and was a senior consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Beratergruppe Neuwaldegg. She served as Secretary-General of the Maghreb Economic Forum (MEF). With this work, she has become known as an award-winning executive coach, published author, and a trusted advisor for CEO’s of global organizations as well as family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs.

Dr. Karboul holds a master’s with honors in mechanical engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and a doctorate in coaching and mentoring from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. She has served on the advisory boards of CLP, WTFL, and GBC-Ed. Dr. Karboul published her book Coffin Corner outlining a new leadership culture suited to the complexity and dynamics of the 21st century. She is a true advocate for believing that quality education is possible for everyone. Please watch her TED talk on the Learning Generation here.