Panel Session

Dalila Chabbi-Bouattour holds a Masters in Accounting Management from the Institute of High Commercial Studies of Carthage (IHEC) in June 1985. With more than 35 years of experience in the accounting and finance and more than 30 years in the oil and gas industry, she was involved in many positions and acquired a good and long experience in finance and management standards. She was recently appointed as ETAP’s Chief Executive Officer, the first woman in this high management position.

Since April 2018, Mrs. Chabbi-Bouattour was appointed as ETAP's Chief Finance Officer (CFO). Meanwhile, she occupied many managerial positions within ETAP like Central resources manager, Finance manager etc.

Mrs. Chabbi-Bouattour integrated ETAP in January 1991 as an Auditor within the Association Audit Service. From 1995 to 2012, she worked in different entities of the Finance Department (Treasury then Finance). From December 2012, she was in charge of the ETAP’s Finance Department. Parallel to her position, she represented ETAP in many board of Directors of ETAP’s joint companies or sector enterprises (CTKCP, Sergaz…).

Thanks to her long career inside ETAP and the continuous contact with international oil and gas companies’ representatives and, the most important, the straight collaboration with national managing authorities (DGH, Ministries responsible for energy and Finance, the central Bank of Tunisia, the energy state-owned enterprises, the Presidency of Government…) allowed her to shape management skills adapted to the energy sector.

Mrs. Neila Nouira Gongi was born in September 18, 1959 in Tunis. She is married and has 2 children. She is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy since October 2021.

Mrs. Nouira Gongi graduated in 1985 from the National School of Administration of Tunis as a Public services Advisor (“Conseiller des Services Publics”) and from the National Institute of Defense in its 23rd Promotion.

She served as a Responsible of Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation within the Ministry of National Economy, where she was the permanent representative in the negotiations with the European Commission and also the World Trade Organization. In 1995, she was named Director of International Cooperation within the Ministry of Industry and then, from 2003 to 2006, General Director of Industrial Strategies within the same institution. From 2006 till 2021, she was appointed as CEO of Monastir-El Fejja Competitiveness Pole (MFCPOLE).

Mrs. Nouira Gongi has accumulated an extensive work experience in the field of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and also in implementing industrial development strategies. Her last position as CEO of MFCPOLE allowed her to develop, under a public and private partnership scheme, the components of the competitiveness pole, including Monastir Technopark for Textiles and Materials. This was also the occasion to put into practice specific know-how on Technoparks management, research, innovation facilitation, clusters governance and technology startups assistance.

Her complementary skills and trainings cover the fields of negotiation management, certificates of origin, innovation management, Intellectual Property, policy evaluation, management of European projects… Finally, she was also an active member of several professional associations, among them: the ‘Tunisian Technoparks Association’, which she presided for eight years.

Eric Schmid will be speaking on: "The Role of the Mediterranean in Meeting Today’s Energy Challenges"

Eric Schmid is associate director in the saharan Africa team of the Commodity Insights group at S&P Global. Eric is primarily responsible for editing and reporting oil and gas related information in north and west African countries for the company’s GEPS publication. Prior to this position he was sub-saharan Africa area coordinator for GEPS, focused primarily on Gulf of Guinea countries. A geologist, Eric holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Before joining IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global) in 2000, he worked as senior geologist for South African mining company Randgold.

Eric speaks English, French and German.