Director The Supreme Judicial Institute

Tel: +21698346403 E-mail: dg@ism-justice.tn

Mr. Ahmed Yahyaoui, ISM Director General, a third-class judge, with 30 years of professional expertise in magistracy. A professor in criminal proceedings and Judge Ethics at ISM. A specialist in criminal law, he also has expertise in Criminal Law and Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT). Holder of an LLB since 1988 and joined magistracy in 1989, following his success in the national competition for magistracy, as a judge at Tunisia Court of First Instance (at the civil chamber). Exercised, in first class, several judicial tasks mainly that of magistrate at the Real Estate Court, magistrate in the correctional chamber at the Court of First Instance in Tunisia. This phase lasted until 2002 as Deputy Public Prosecutor at Tunis Court of First Instance In second class he took on the task of the criminal chamber advisor, investigating judge at the Court of First Instance of Mannouba (one of the governorates of greater Tunisia). In 2011, he was promoted to third class judge. At the start of his career in third class; that is, the highest level in the Tunisian jurisdictional classification, he held the post of senior investigating judge at the Nabeul Court of First Instance (in Tunisian cape bon). Transferred, while keeping the same function, to the Court of First Instance in Tunis. Then held the post of senior investigating judge at the financial and economic judicial pole under the jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance of Tunis. Was then appointed as a Public Prosecutor to the Court of First Instance of Ben Arous (governorate of Ben Arous at a banlieu in Tunis). Attorney General at the Jandouba Court of Appeal (Jandouba Governorate in the North West of the Republic of Tunisia) until having him been appointed in 2019 as the ISM Director General in Tunis. He participated in various seminars and conferences on: • Investigation: the role and responsibility of the Advocate General and the Judicial Bodies in AML/CFT. • Holder of a certificate of competence in the fight against corruption and transnational organized crime and asset recovery following his participation in 2013 in the work of the Regional Workshop for North Africa organized in Algeria. • Money laundering: system and mechanisms of preparation, research and traceability. • Legal protection of the environment. • In 2018, he participated in a study course in Turkey organized by the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tunisia on experiences in the field of asylum and migration.