Ghazoua Ltaief

Project Manager

Ghazoua leads public policy projects within Altai's MENA team, working across three interlinked practices: Governance & public sector reform; Gender, displacement & fragile states; and Energy transition & clean technology policy.

In the area of governance and public sector reform, Ghazoua oversees assignments supporting governments and international financial institutions in strengthening public systems and service delivery. This includes the design of an Adaptive Results-Based Management system for public institutions in Morocco and Mauritania for the Islamic Development Bank, as well as policy advisory work supporting decentralisation reforms and municipal governance in Tunisia under a USG-funded programme.

Ghazoua has extensive experience leading field-based research and monitoring assignments in fragile and conflict-affected settings, with a particular focus on gender and displacement. She has managed a financial inclusion landscaping study in Iraq for the World Bank's Private Sector for Refugees Platform, examining access barriers for forcibly displaced women, and led an opportunity study in Syria under the Women, Peace and Security agenda for AFD. She has also led Third-Party Monitoring of multi-sector interventions in Libya, coordinating field verification across programmes implemented by UNDP, UNICEF, GIZ, and other international actors.

Across Altai's energy and climate practice, Ghazoua has contributed to evaluations of climate and energy transition programmes in North Africa and to an analysis of clean energy technology manufacturing capacity and policy frameworks across the MENA region for the European Commission, mapping industrial ecosystems and value chain opportunities for EU-MENA partnerships.

Prior to joining Altai, Ghazoua managed a $4.64M USAID-funded grants portfolio at Deloitte, overseeing 74 grants to NGOs, municipalities, and private companies across 33 Tunisian municipalities. She also held programme management roles at Fondation de France and the Natural Resource Governance Institute, supporting economic inclusion initiatives and energy governance reform in North Africa. Ghazoua is a Chevening Scholar and holds an MA in Governance, Development and Public Policy from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, as well as an Engineering degree in Biotechnology. She is a certified Project Management Professional and is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.