ABOUT ME

MAHMOUD TRIKI

SMU President and Founder

A brilliant student, Mahmoud Triki managed to obtain a scholarship to study in the United States. After he was very quickly noticed for his intellectual and human qualities, he was appointed Director of the Higher Institute of Management (ISG) of Tunis and President Bourguiba personally asked him to found and direct the University and Scientific Mission of Tunisia (MUST) in order to train 1000 engineers in the key sectors of health and education. After fifteen years of studying and working with American universities and ten years of teaching at HEC Paris and the University of Tunis, Prof. Mahmoud Triki decided to found SMU, a private university offering its programs in English according to the standards of the most prestigious North American universities. Today, SMU includes a School of Management (MSB) offering both internationally accredited programs and a School of Engineering (MedTech) as well as an Institute of Languages and Cultures (LCI).

Mahmoud Triki is a visionary who has spent his life promoting educational excellence and developing leaders capable of operating in a «knowledge-based» global economic order. In order to offer an opportunity to all, he created the SMU Foundation whose mission is to support the development of talent through the funding of scholarships, research funding and employability and skills development initiatives.

If almost everyone knows the prestigious career of Professor Mahmoud Triki, few know his love for the arts. Passionate about music since his youth, he practiced for many years the singing and the oud. Following health problems, he had to abandon this art but it was only to better devote himself to his new impulse: photography.

«A head without passion is useless,» he says. And it is with an unquenchable enthusiasm that he has dedicated his life to his country.