Abdeslam Badre is a Professor at Mohammed 5 University in Morocco, a NEF Fellow (2019-2020) and a former NEF Ambassador (2016-2018).
His Research focuses on public policies of higher education and the social economy of three social groups; migrants, youth and women, particularly in the African Region. Given the human and demographic capitals they represent, he seeks to analyze the current norms that hamper the progress and livelihood of women, youth and migrants, as social groups, as well as generating evidence-based recommendations that could inform national and regional policies, providing comparable data across borders on key African countries, while addressing the causes of entrenched marginalization.
As GYA Alumni, Prof Badre Co-Led the GLoSYS Africa Project (2015-2020) and Co-Authored a Book about the project: ‘Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective’, (2020).
Currently, he is Researching sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco, (2-year Fellowship Project 2019-2020), Princeton University, and the University of Michigan, USA. Previously, he served Visiting Professor positions at Alfred University in New York, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Aalborg University in Denmark, the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, and Babes Bolyai University in Romania.
He served as an Editor of the Social Science Section for ELSEVIER's Scientific African (2019-2020). After obtaining his PhD, Prof Badre completed a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014); a Visiting Post-Doc Fellowship (the United Nations University of Barcelona, Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility, 2015); and a Fellowship (The Arab Council for Social Sciences, 2017-2018).
Prof Badre has a MA in International Relations and Diplomacy (Babes Bolyai University, Romania); MBA in Human Resources Management (New York); MA in Science Education (Rabat); and a DESA in Cultural Studies (Fez).
Among his (Co) Published Books are: ‘Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective’, (2020); ‘Youth Policy Manual for Arab Countries: How to develop a national youth strategy,’ (2013); ‘International Negotiations for Economic Diplomacy,’ (2014); and ‘La Participation Citoyenne,’(2016).
Prof Badre is the Editor for the “Social Sciences and Policy (SOC)” section of the Scientific African Journal. He is a Member of the NEF Community of Scientists (NEF-CoS); Global Young Academy (GYA); American Political Science Association (APSA); International Political Science Association (IPSA); Next Einstein Forum Ambassador Program; Africa Science Leadership Program (ASLP); Future Africa; and Fulbright Alumni Association.
