Ali Baklouti is a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sfax, Tunisia. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Metz, France, in 1995. He served as Vice-President of the University of Sfax from December 2020 to July 2024, and as President of the Tunisian Mathematical Society for two consecutive terms (April 2016 to March 2019, and April 2019 to March 2023). He co-founded the Mediterranean Institute of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS) in 2012 and has served as its Deputy Director since January of that year. In December 2016, he was elected a permanent member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.

Professor Baklouti has received several distinguished honours, including the AMU-PaCOM 2022 Award and Medal (Category A, Mathematics) and the Royal Society Africa Prize 2024. In 2024, he was also awarded the Order of Merit for Education and Teaching by the President of Tunisia. In 2026, he was named laureate of the “Chaire Pays du Sud” in Mathematics, organized by the CIRM (France).

He founded the Tunisian Journal of Mathematics (published by MSP, USA) and served as its Co-Editor-in-Chief. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics (ISTE, UK) and was recently appointed Honorary Editor of the Rockerr International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science. He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Graduate Journal of Mathematics (MIMS) and the Arabian Journal of Mathematics (Springer).