Youssef Bouali
Senior Strategic Lead Security & Defence Programmes
Apulia, Italy
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Top SchoolYoussef Bouali is a strategic security and defence programmes leader with 11+ years of experience designing, bidding and managing large-scale EU research and procurement initiatives across cybersecurity, border security, crisis resilience and defence innovation. He combines hands-on project delivery—coordinating consortia, PCP/PPI procurement and exploitation strategies—with business development skills that span prospecting, proposal writing and market uptake. As founder of DigInnov and a senior manager at Engineering and PPHS, he has repeatedly translated EU policy priorities into actionable capability roadmaps and technology scouting pipelines. Pragmatic and client-facing, he excels at aligning technical teams, law enforcement, industry and policymakers to close capability gaps and drive commercialization of Key Exploitable Results. His background in e-business, digital fabrication (FAB Academy) and international experience—from Morocco to Italy and exchange at GWU—gives him a rare blend of entrepreneurial, technical and policy-savvy perspectives. Colleagues describe him as a creative problem-solver who thrives on high-stakes, cross-disciplinary challenges and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
FABLAB Diploma, Digital Fabrication, FABLAB Diploma, Digital Fabrication at FAB Academy - FabLab Foundation, MITMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Business Innovation leadership, e-Business Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Innovation leadership, e-Business Management at S.S. ISUFI - Università degli Studi di LECCE, ITALYBachelor Exchange Program, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor Exchange Program, Business Administration and Management, General at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance and Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance and Computer Science at Al Akhawayn University
Italian, French, Arabic, EnglishGithub contributions (2)
youssef-bouali/FabAcademy-Test
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
opendot/FabAcademy2015-Opendot
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 22 pushes in 6 months
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