Youssef Cherif is a political analyst who specializes in North African affairs. He is member in Carnegie's Civic Research Network and is contributing to a number of think-tanks. He was previously the Al-Maidan Libya Project manager at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), and an expert affiliated to the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES). He consulted for the Arab Institute for Business Managers (IACE, on Tunisian foreign policy), the UN (implementing the SDG's in Tunisia and writing the country report), The Carter Center in Tunisia (political affairs), etc.
Youssef holds a Chevening Master of Arts in International Relations from the Department of War Studies of King's College London, and a Fulbright Master of Arts in Classical Studies from Columbia University, where he first came as a Visiting Scholar. He is North Africa's political analyst for several international media outlets, including CNN, Al Jazeera English, BBC, France 24, Fanack and think-tanks such as DGAP and the Atlantic Council.