Aboubakr Jamaï

Professor Jamaï’s professional career spans the business sectors of finance, economics, and journalism. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in finance
from Higher Institute of Commerce and Business Administration in Casablanca, Morocco. He got his MBA from Saïd Business School at Oxford University, and his MPA in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School. As a professor, He teaches Media & Conflict, Contemporary Politics of The Middle East and International Business. He was the Dean of the School of Business and International Relations from 2014 to 2023 and now serves as the Dean of the Donna Dillon Manning School of Global Affairs since 2024. Professor Jamaï began his career in finance, co-founding Morocco’s first independent investment bank in 1993. From 1997 to 2007, Jamaï was the publisher and editor the leading Moroccan newsweekly, Le Journal Hebdomadaire. In 2008, he was a visiting Scholar at the University of San Diego where he taught courses on International Journalism, Political Islam and Politics in The Middle East. He was the MENA regional editor for the Open Society Foundation’s project: Mapping Digital Media. He also worked in Iraq as a consultant with International Media Support (IMS) advising independent Iraqi media on their business strategies. From 2010 to 2013, he was the co-editor of the Moroccan news website lakome.com. He publishes regularly in The New York Times, Time Magazine, El Pais, Le Monde, and Le Monde Diplomatique. Among the many prizes and distinctions he has received, Professor Jamaï won the Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Award in 2003. He was named Harvard University’s Nieman Fellow in 2007 and Mason Fellow in 2008. In 2008, he also received the Tully Center Free Speech Prize, Newhouse School of Communication, Syracuse University. In December 2010, he won the Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). In 2014, he won the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) Leaders For Democracy Award. He was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch foundation in 2013. Professor Jamaï holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Higher Institute of Commerce and Management in Casablanca, Morocco, a Master of Business Administration from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. He speaks Arabic, French, English and Spanish.