Asma Ezzine

Project Officer Justice Accelerator

I am driven by a belief that knowledge should move freely between the people who create it and the people who need it, and that the systems standing in the way of that movement are usually a matter of design, not fate. Being part of HiiL means working at exactly that intersection, where innovation meets the people it is meant to serve, and where small structural changes driven by People-Centred Justice can unlock outsized impact.

Since 2023, Asma has held the position of Project Officer for the Justice Accelerator MENA and Global, as well as for Tunisia Programmes, at the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL). In her role, she supports the design and implementation of innovation programmes and works closely with justice innovators, ecosystem partners, and government institutions to bring innovation programmes to life and ensure that promising ideas receive the support they need and are matched with real pathways to scaling.

Asma Ezzine holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Tunis Business School (TBS), the first public university in Tunisia to use English as the language of instruction and to follow the American higher education model. She recently got her Master’s degree in Management, Organisation and Business Economics (MMOBE) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Public University of Navarre (UPNA), and University of the Balearic Islands (UIB).

Asma has a proven track record of supporting more than 120 justice startups & entrepreneurs across 12 startup support programmes in Tunisia, and contributing to two Global Justice Accelerator programmes spanning MENA, East Africa, and West Africa, alongside a CSO Innovation Programme in the Sahel region. In the past three years, she has been heavily involved in cross-regional project management and programme implementation, while also fostering collaboration with the local startup ecosystem and supporting stakeholder dialogues and national forums.
Before joining HiiL, Asma worked within the pan-African startup ecosystem, fostering innovation scaling via capacity building programmes and contributing to the fundraising strategies of startups as well as venture builders. She contributed to the empowerment of the Open Innovation ecosystem and startup B2B matchmaking in close collaboration with the Tunisian Startups Association and coordinated the creation of the first PhD – Entrepreneur community.

Outside of work, Asma is passionate about her family, discovery, travel, reading, and cross-cultural exchange, fluent in Arabic, French, and English, with intermediate proficiency in Spanish.

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