Bouraoui (Tunisia) is the Executive Director of the Center for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR), which is a regional NGO working across 22 Arab countries, and Iran. She is a lawyer by training, and has taught in her capacity as a professor of law in the Legal, Political and Social Studies Department at the University of Tunis and has expertise in criminal law, civil law, environmental law, human rights, gender justice and globalization. She founded and directed the Tunisian Centre for Information, Documentation, Studies and Research on Women (CREDIF). She served as Chairman of the Women’s Development Plan Committee for the Eighth Tunisian National Economic and Social Development Plan. She is a founding member of the International Forum of Mediterranean Women (1992), which actively fosters dialogue between Arab women and Euro-Mediterranean women and promotes networking among different social groups as key to sustainable development. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Tunisian Association of Criminal Law, the International Association of Economic Law (AIDE) and the International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE). In 1997, she was elected as Regional Governor of the International Environment Council. Since 2000, she has been a member of the International Court of Environment Arbitration and Conciliation (ICEAC). Dr. Bouraoui has authored international scholarly publications on the environment, economic law, citizenship and women’s rights and has been a visiting professor at various international universities.