Professor Fatima Harrack is a Historian and Political scientist. She is now an Honorary Professor at the University Mohamed V where she previously served as Research Professor and Director of its Institute for African Studies (IAS) from 2003 to 2008.

She is an active member of the pan-African Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, where she served as vice president and president from 2009 to 2015.

She has been a visiting scholar at several African, European, and US universities and authored numerous books and studies on themes of Islamic reform in North and West Africa, African women in the transmission of Islamic learning, trans-Saharan slavery, and Africa in the world.

She graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).