Rochdi FEKI graduated from the University of Burgundy (France), his doctoral thesis in economics has focused on "Technology and Multiple Choices of Functional Forms".

After beginning his teaching career at Dijon University (France), he was appointed to the rank of assistant to the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Sousse (Tunisia) in 1996. He is currently a lecturer at the Business School of Sfax (Tunisia).

He was a consultant to the World Bank and the African Union. His research focuses on functional forms and their uses in the approximation of production technologies, neural networks and their applications in Economics and Finance, and construction of composite indicators.

Many works have emerged giving rise to publications in journals or book chapters.

His research in tandem with Professor Nouri Chtourou led to the development of an algorithm called CFAR-m being on marketing in the field of economic intelligence.