Moez Ben Messaoud is Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University. He got his PhD from the Sorbonne University in France and served previously as Head Department of Communication at the Institute of Journalism and Information Sciences (IPSI), University of Manouba, Tunis. In addition to his administrative and managerial experience, he was awarded various research grants from within and outside the state of Qatar for various research projects. He has also served as LPI or PI in many research projects while working in Qatar University:

Ben Messaoud served also as editor in chief of the Tunisian Journal of Communication Sciences, and coordinated various research projects in both Manouba University, Tunisia, and Qatar University. His research interests include strategic communication social media networks and social change, public service broadcasting, and public relation, media and democratic transition. He has authored several refereed articles, books and book chapters of which the most recents  are Media Ethics and the Challenges of Democratic Transition in Tunisia in  Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution Book edition 2022 and  “Social Media networks and Democratic transition in Tunisia: from censorship to freedom” in the Routledge Handbook on Arab Media, edition 2021.