Ghita Mezzour

Ghita Mezzour is the Founder and CEO of DecisiveAI. She was Minister of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform of Morocco from 2021 to 2024, where she led the national Morocco Digital 2030 strategy, and holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.

• Minister of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform of Morocco from 2021 to 2024, she increased the ministry's budget 100-fold and led the development of the national Morocco Digital 2030 strategy.
• Before joining the government, she was CEO and founder of Data in Seconds (DASEC), a startup specialized in collecting and analyzing open data (websites, social networks, etc.) powered by artificial intelligence. Under her leadership, DASEC was named Morocco's best digital solution by the World Summit Award 2020 and was a winner of the Orange Corners Innovation Fund. In parallel, she taught at the International University of Rabat, first as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor until December 2020.
• At the intersection of her entrepreneurial and academic activities, between 2015 and 2021 she led several high-impact AI projects for USAID, NATO, the United Nations and various government agencies.
• She holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA, class of 2015), and is also a graduate in communication systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
• She was named a Rising Star by MIT in 2015 and received the EPFL Alumni Award in 2023.