Rim Lahmandi-Ayed (born 1969) is a Tunisian economist, and a professor of economics at Carthage University in Tunisia, where she heads the research group on economic and statistic modeling and analysis. [1] Topics in her research have included product differentiation and targeted advertising.
Lahmandi-Ayed was born in 1969 in Nabeul. She earned an engineering degree from the École polytechnique in France in 1991, and a master's degree in economic modeling in 1992, with additional study at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She completed a Ph.D. through the École polytechnique in 1995. [2]
Returning to Tunisia, she became an assistant professor in the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management in Tunis El Manar University from 1996 to 1999. [3] She received a habilitation in 2000. [2] She has been affiliated with the Tunisia Polytechnic School from 2000 to 2013 as a researcher, [3] and she headed a master's program in economic modeling there from 2004 to 2013. [2] Meanwhile, she became an associate professor in the Higher Institute of Management of Tunis University from 2002 to 2004. In 2005 she was named as a full professor in the Higher School of Statistics and Information Analysis (ESSAI) of Carthage University. [3] She directed ESSAI from 2011 to 2017. In 2014, she became the founding director of the research group on economic and statistic modeling and analysis in ESSAI. [2] Since 2022 she has also been a senior research fellow at the ESC Rennes School of Business in France. [3]
Lahmandi-Ayed was named as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2021. [4] She is also a Fellow of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council. [1]