The "Behavioral Science for Public Policy" program aims to train new profiles, which meet growing public policy needs: the need to understand populations, their preferences, their anticipations, their opinions, their reasonings, their behaviors, the influence that individuals can exert on one another, the biases that can affect their judgments or the collective phenomena that emerge from their multiple interactions.
Touhami ABDELKHALEK
Economics
Touhami Abdelkhalek is a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He was a full professor at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) for more than 30 years. He received his PhD from the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal. He has a double specialization in Development and Growth and in Econometrics. He has been, for several years, a visiting professor to teach at the Université de…
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Amir ABDUL REDA
Political Science
Amir Abdul Reda is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
His research focuses on public opinion, civil unrest, and migration using data science methods. Currently, he is working on several projects related to protest cycles, subsidy reforms and protests, and migration, some of which are funded by the UK Research and Innovation and Horizon Europe 2020.
At UM6P, his teaching focuses on data science methods for…
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Abdelhak Bassou
International Relations
Abdelhak Bassou is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He previously held multiple positions within the General Directorate of Moroccan National Security, serving namely as head of the border division from 1978 to 1993. He was the former director of the Royal Institute of Police in…
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Ahmed Bencheikh
Political Science
Ahmed Bencheikh is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is a former professor at : (i) Cadi Ayyad University (Marrakech), (ii) the University of Quebec in Montreal, (iii) the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (Rabat), and the National Institute of Planning and Urbanism (Rabat). Since 2012, Mr. Bencheikh has been an expert trainer in development policy evaluation at the Programme International de…
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Dorothée BOCCANFUSO
Economics
Dorothée Boccanfuso is a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She graduated from Université Laval (PhD in Economics). She was a professor at the University of Sherbrooke for more than 15 years, where she was involved in teaching, research and administrative management in the Business School. In addition to her tenure as a full professor, she has served as Chair of the Department of Economics, Director of the PhD program in…
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Mathieu Charbonneau
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mathieu Charbonneau is an Associate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is a philosopher of science (with a special interest in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences) and the philosophy of technology.
He holds a Ph.D. of philosophy (2013) at the Université de Montréal, in Canada, where he also taught in several departments (philosophy, psychology, biology). Between 2013 and 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher at…
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Marc Dubois
Economics
Marc Dubois is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He is also an Assistant Professor at University of Mayotte since 2020.
His research focuses on social choice theory, specially on issues related to social welfare/ inequality/poverty measurement. He published in academic journals such as Mathematical Social Sciences and Annals of Operations Research. He teaches two courses at UM6P: Public Choice and Social Welfare, and…
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Ali EL MHAMDI
Law
Ali El Mhamdi is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is an Associate Professor at the Moroccan Academy of Diplomatic Studies (AMED) and the National School of Administration (ENSA). He obtained a Doctorate of State in Public Law from the University of Law (Paris II Assas-Sorbonne) in 1982.
Previously Director of Human Resources at the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director of Legal Affairs and Treaties;…
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Zachary GARFIELD
Anthropology
Zachary Garfield is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is an interdisciplinary behavioral scientist and evolutionary anthropologist. He co- directs The Omo Valley Research Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to social, biological, and health research. His academic journey was sparked by a profound experience of independent travel in Southeast Asia and volunteering on Japanese farms. This fueled his…
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Faiçal HOSSAINI
Economics
Faiçal Hossaini is an Academic Associate at the Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences.
He teaches various modules at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in particular Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Finance, and Political Economy. He has also taught monetary economics and econometrics in other universities in Morocco and abroad.
Prior to joining FGSES, Mr. Hossaini worked as an economist at the Economic…
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Emmanuel Kemel
Economics
Emmanuel Kemel is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
After graduating in engineering, Emmanuel Kemel specialized in economics and in cognitive sciences. He worked as an expert for the French Ministry of Sustainable Development and defended his PhD in Economics (University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Since 2015, he is a CNRS researcher at GREGHEC and an affiliate professor at HEC.
His research focuses on the…
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Nicolas Porot
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nicolas Porot is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
His research includes both experimental and non-experimental work in behavioral science. Currently, he is especially interested in how people form and change their beliefs, and in how beliefs spread in groups. He has worked on many topics in the study of cognition, including fake news, mechanisms of belief formation, evidence-resistance, delusions, biases in moral…
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Ouidade Sabri
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Ouidade Sabri is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She is Professor of Marketing at IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School as well as Director of its Executive Master in Digital Marketing & Business Development. Her research focuses on brand communication, sales promotion, consumer behavior, marketing performance and data science.
She is the author of four books on marketing, digital and data analysis and has…
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Emmanuel TROUCHE
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emmanuel Trouche is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
Within the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences (AIRESS), he deploys experimental methods to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying learning, reasoning, and decision-making. He is co-Principal Investigator of a research project called PASEM, which aims at creating and experimenting new methods for improving children’s mathematical and…
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Déborah PEREZ
Political Science
Déborah Perez is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She previously taught political science at the EHESS, Paris Dauphine University, and SciencesPo. Her research interests deal with political actors, parliaments, and regime change in the Maghreb. A former student from the École Normale Supérieure, she gained a PhD at Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence.
Her PhD dissertation received a special mention from the GIS…
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This undergraduate degree is intended to train a new kind of leaders, with skills that are highly sought after on the job market today. The skills acquired in this program lead to executive/technician jobs in the analysis of data collected from populations, in the public sector (administrations, ministries, local authorities) as well as in the private sector (design offices, consulting, non-governmental organizations, associations, marketing agencies), both nationally and locally. The possible fields of application are numerous and varied: opinion polls and studies, in particular political, managerial evaluation of an organization, household surveys (consumption, employment, social and cultural practices), demographic surveys, training surveys and the dissemination of new ideas, opinions or convictions, in particular under the effect of social networks, study of the perceptions by the target populations of public policies, for example in the fields of social policies, regional planning or policies employment, surveys in the fields of education, inclusiveness, participatory policies, gender issues or even sustainable development and the environment.
In addition, the solid skills acquired by the graduates of this program in certain classical academic disciplines (behavioral sciences, sociology, political science), associated with the interdisciplinary profile they will acquire, allow them to apply for Masters in Behavioral Sciences, but also in Political Science, Sociology and more broadly in multidisciplinary Masters oriented towards public policies.