Achref Aouadi

Achref Aouadi, on behalf of the I-Watch organisation, won the TI Amalia Award in September 2017. He was nominated as well for the Buffett Award for Emerging Global Leaders.

After the audio leaked of Nabil Karoui, owner of Nessma TV in April 2017, that included defamation and threats, Aouadi declared that Karoui had put a car in front of their headquarters in Tunis to observe them.

In July 2016, the I-Watch organisation published an investigative report that showed the taxes invasion of the company Karoui & Karoui owned by Nabil Karoui and his brother. After his withdrawal from I-Watch, Aouadi came back into presidency to assume his responsibilities in the Nessma Investigation.

He enrolled in the International Anti-Corruption Academy in 2011, before engaging in fighting corruption.

In 2011, Achref started a voting campaign Go Vote then came the idea of I-Watch which later became an established yet young non-governmental organisation. He also observed the 2011 elections.

Aouadi represents the Tunisian Civil Society in the United Nations Convention Anti-Corruption yearly. He was chosen by the United Nations in 2011.

As a student, in 2009, Aouadi founded the “Student-To-Student university club”

Achref Aouadi ( Arabic: أشرف العوادي ‎ ) is a Tunisian civil society activist and founder and president of the Tunisian watchdog organisation I-Watch working on transparency and anti-corruption. He was born in May 27, 1986, in Sers in El Kef. Aouadi belongs to a family of militants and members of the opposition to the Bourguiba and Ben Ali regimes; his father and uncle were sentenced by the State Security Court in 1975 along with Hamma Hammami, Sedek Mhenni, Mohamed Kilani, Nejib Chebbi, and other militants.