Thami Ghorfi

Thami Ghorfi is Dean of ESCA Ecole de Management, a leading African business school based in Casablanca, Morocco. 
Prof. Thami Ghorfi has developed expertise in management practices related to entrepreneurship and change management in Morocco and the region.

Thami Ghorfi was appointed in 2011 as an expert member of the Economic, Social, and Environmental Council (CESE), a constitutional institution of the Kingdom of Morocco. He is also a member of the Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research (CSEFRS) since November 2022, a constitutional institution of the Kingdom of Morocco. 
Through his position as Vice President of the AL AMANA Foundation–a leading microfinance organization in the MENA region–Thami Ghorfi is intensely involved in charity and the fight against financial exclusion. 

Since July 2024, Thami Ghorfi has joined the AACSB’s Board of Directors, the world’s largest business education alliance.
Thami co-authored the book Femmes au cœur des entreprises familiales in La Croisée des Chemins, February 2021. He also co-authored “Women in Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in the Arab World” and “Entrepreneurship and Education: Between Trendy and Usefulness” in Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region - Palgrave Macmillan 2022. He edited Entreprises familiales, des paradoxes aux opportunités — a book in La Croisée des Chemins, 2016. Thami is author of L’enseignement du management, au service de l’influence en Méditerranée " in La Méditerranée, terrain de la géopolitique mondiale? L’Harmattan 2019. 

Thami Ghorfi has been a member of the AACSB Initial Accreditation Committee. He co-chairs the MENA Network Group. He also contributes to several committees within EFMD and GBSN (Global Business Schools Network). Thami is, among other things, a member of the jury for the Young Academic Award (YAA) organized by the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC). He is also an Editorial Board member of the Case Focus, the Journal of Business & Management Teaching Cases.

Thami’s numerous distinctions include France's Order of Academic Palms Chevalier (2017) and the Prize of Africa Economy Builders (2016 Cote d’Ivoire). He was granted Doctor Honoris Causa of Grenoble Ecole de Management.