Keynote speaker Ouided Bouchamaoui was The Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts president until 2018. In 2020, she began working at HEIP in Paris as the Director of master 2 “Prevention, Arbitration & Resolution of conflicts.”

Aside from working at HEIP, Ouided is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She is also an Oslo Business for Peace Award Committee member. In 2014, she received the Oslo Business for Peace Award.

Ouided works to promote Tunisia’s national reconciliation, safeguard enterprises and employment policy, and facilitate the restoring of security. In 2014, the Business for Peace made her an honouree for her efforts in this area. Furthermore, UTICA is one of the four organizations that comprise the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. This group of four civil society organizations obtained the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.

Speaker Ouided Bouchamaoui loves to help Tunisia and spread its story to the world. The story of a country that is seen as an exception in the Arab and Muslim region. 

In her speeches, Ouided Bouchamaoui talks about how such an experience could help people learn how to speak with each other and mediate. She believes that changing rules, demanding new ways of acting, and setting up new patterns, could help people think about politics in the finest sense of the term, which is citizen action for the common good.

Ouided Bouchamaoui is a well-known keynote speaker who travels the world, sharing her personal experiences as an Arab woman. She also talks about the Tunisian National Dialogue, which culminated in awarding the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.

HBG Holding, which concentrates on the agricultural and agri-food sectors, insurance, finance, information technology, and distribution, has appointed her as a shareholder.