Advances in Emerging Financial Technology & Digital Money

Advances in Emerging Financial Technology and Digital Money provide a platform for collective reflection, bringing together institutions, policymakers, digital and financial service providers, professionals, and academics from various disciplines.

Yassine Maleh (http: //orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-5364) is a double Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University Hassan 1st, Morocco since 2013, and a second Ph.D. in Management from the National School of Business and Management, Settat, Morocco, since 2022. He is a professor of Cybersecurity and IT Governance at the National School of Applied Sciences, Khouribga, Morocco, and was a former IT Service Manager at the National Port Agency, Morocco. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the International Association of Engineers IAENG, and The Machine Intelligence Research Labs. Dr. Maleh has contributed to information security and privacy, Internet of Things Security, Wireless and Constrained Networks Security. His research interests include Information Security and Privacy, Internet of Things, Networks Security, Information system and IT Governance. He has published over than 140 papers (Book chapters, international journals, and conferences/workshops), 30 edited books, and 5 authored books. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE, the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF). He convened and chaired more than 20 conferences and workshops.

Justin Zhang is a faculty member at the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration on Management Science and Information Systems from Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His research interests include economics of information systems, knowledge management, electronic business, business process management, information security, and social networking. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Management, an ABET program evaluator, and an IEEE senior member.

Abderrahim Hansali, PhD in Economics and Management, graduate of the Institut Supérieur de l’Administration in Rabat and ENA in Paris, and Agrégé de l’Electronique et de l’Informatique Industrielle at ENSET in Rabat, is currently a Research Teacher at ENCG in Marrakech and a consultant in digital strategies and change management. His career began as a founding teacher of BTS preparatory classes in Morocco. After working for the Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications in Rabat on the implementation of a quality management system (2007) and as an auditor for the Inspectorate General of the Ministry of National Education (2008), he was appointed Deputy Director & National Coordinator of the GENIE program within the same Ministry (2009), where he helped set up the Laboratoire National des Ressources Numériques. Since 2016, he has taken up teaching and research duties in management sciences at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.

In 2014, he set up the FONDATION MAROC NUMERIQUE, a non-governmental organization dedicated to supporting digital strategies and promoting a citizen digital culture. In 2019, he helped set up ACISS (African Center for Innovative Sustainable Solutions) at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.