Youcef leads the Sustainable Law and Finance Working Group of Droit & Croissance. He is currently a DPhil in Law (PhD) candidate at the University of Oxford, where he is pursuing research on the objectives and rationales of mandating ESG disclosures. He is also a researcher at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. Youcef received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from McGill University, a Masters in Economic Law from Sciences Po Law School, and a MSc in Law & Finance from the University of Oxford.
Youcef’s research interests include the moral underpinnings of Law and Economics, Corporate Governance and Corporate Reputation, Financial Regulation, and the use of technology in achieving sustainability objectives. Youcef is co-founder and COO of ToumAI Analytics, an award-winning sustainability tech start-up that uses NLP applied to African dialects to provide better African data to capital markets in the Global North.