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Mohamed Mezghani has been working for about 25 years in public transport and urban mobility related fields. He is Deputy Secretary General of the UITP since January 2014 and Acting Director Knowledge and Membership Services. Until then, he has worked at UITP as Senior Manager (1999-2001) and Director Knowledge and Membership Services (2001-2006) chairing the department developing knowledge-related services for UITP members: professional training, research projects, thematic studies, technical advice, conferences, networking activities, information centre, etc. From 2006 till 2013, he has worked as independent consultant on several technical assistance and training projects in Africa and the Middle-East and managed a number of projects involving numerous experts and multidisciplinary teams. His main fields of expertise are: Institutional organisation and regulatory framework of public transport; Relationships between public transport stakeholders ; Public transport operation ; Urban mobility policies and travel demand management. Before joining UITP, M. Mezghani has been working as consultant in the French group, BCEOM, (from 1990 to 1999) more particularly in the urban mobility field. He has managed and carried out projects including policy definition, technical assistance and research activities in several countries in Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Arab countries. During his collaboration with the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management, ADEME, (from 1988-1990), M. Mezghani carried out actions aimed at identifying and evaluating transport energy efficiency projects likely to be financed by the Agency in France. Mohamed Mezghani has been graduated in Industrial Engineering (1987) and has a Master in Transport (1988).