International Relations & Higher Education · Istanbul

I bring universities and the world’s students together.

I recruit international students across Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey, and I build the university and agency partnerships that bring them in.

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About

Ghoufran Mounir

I work in international education. I bring students from across Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey to universities in Istanbul, and I build the partnerships, with schools, agencies, and institutions, that keep them coming. Half of the work is relationships and half is on the ground: the fairs, the school and high-school visits, the consultancy desk, the meeting that only happens in person. I do this now for Medipol University, and before it for Fenerbahçe, opening new countries and the networks that carry them.

I am Moroccan, I live in Istanbul, and I work in six languages, four of them since childhood. Those languages are why a conversation with a family in Casablanca, an agency in Tunis, or a school in Nairobi goes differently when I am in the room. In this field trust is most of the work, and whether the person across the table believes you understand where they sit. That is the part I am best at. I trained first in purchasing, through internships with Renault and OCP, which taught me to study a place before I trust a word of it. Outside the work, I write poetry. It is probably why I would rather listen first.

Foundation

MBA, Business Administration

Istanbul Aydın University

2019 – 2022 · GPA 3.35

Strategic management, brand management, digital marketing, business forecasting.

BSc, Purchasing & Sourcing Management

ESITH, Casablanca

2016 – 2019

Sourcing strategy, supplier-market studies, negotiation, supply management.

Baccalaureate, Economics

Houmane El-Fetouaki, Agadir

2016

Tools

SalesforceMonday.comCRM pipelinesLead generationMarketingAI workflowsEvent management

Leadership

ENACTUS ESITH, 2016–2019. Active member, then event manager, then VP, Community & Marketing.

Focus

01

Student recruitment

Finding the students in the countries where they are, and walking them from first inquiry to enrolment: the application, the consultancy, the follow-through that turns interest into an arrival.

02

University & agency partnerships

Signing and keeping the schools, agencies, and institutions that feed a pipeline, and the agreements and incentives that keep them performing a year in.

03

On the ground

The part that only happens in person. The fair, the delegation, the school and high-school visit, the consultancy desk. This work is still won face to face, and that is where I am most useful.

04

Across languages

Six languages, four of them since childhood. The reason a meeting in Casablanca, Tunis, or Nairobi goes differently when I am in the room.

Experience

Medipol University

Sales & Marketing Senior Specialist · Istanbul

Feb 2026 – Present

I lead Medipol’s international student recruitment end to end — opening new countries, signing the school and agency partnerships that feed them, and running the lead-generation pipelines, marketing, and call-centre team that turn a first inquiry into an enrolled student. I am building AI-assisted workflows into that operation to make it faster and sharper.

Fenerbahçe University

International Students Recruitment Specialist · Istanbul

Sep 2022 – Feb 2026

I ran international recruitment across the Middle East and North Africa: studying each country and visiting partners, finding and signing partner agencies, setting the incentives that kept them performing, running international fairs, and taking students from first interest to enrolment. At the fairs and across the table, I was the university’s face.

TRUCAS Education & Consultancy

Recruitment & Marketing Senior Specialist · Istanbul

Jan 2020 – Sep 2022

I ran recruitment and the commercial side for an education consultancy: the agreements with universities and agencies, the student pipeline on a CRM, the campaigns, and the mentoring of students through application and arrival. As senior specialist I planned and produced a multi-city education fair across Tangier and Casablanca on my own, running the university meetings, the school and high-school visits, and the consultancy on site.

Internships ESITH · purchasing & sourcing, 2017–2019

Renault, Tangier Plant

Purchasing internships · Tangier, Morocco

2018 – 2019

Supplier-market studies, need analysis, and specifications, then a graduation-project sourcing strategy for one of the region’s largest car plants.

OCP Group

Purchasing internship · Casablanca, Morocco

2017 – 2018

Purchasing fundamentals, inventory and supply management, and negotiation, at Morocco’s largest industrial group.

Salsabile Confection

Purchasing internship · Tangier, Morocco

2017

The legal and normative groundwork of sourcing, and the cost-price of a product.

Reach

Where I work

IstanbulCasablancaAlgiersTunisCairoAbujaYaoundéNairobiLahoreParisLondonBerlinMontreal

Bright dots open a field note

Where the work has taken me, and where my languages let me operate without a translator in the room. Arabic and French across North Africa and the Gulf, French and English through the rest of Africa, Turkish across Turkey, and the South Asian markets I have worked from Istanbul.

Native

Arabic (all dialects) · French · English · Amazigh

Working

Turkish · Spanish

Recent visits

Istanbul · Nairobi · Casablanca · Abuja · Tangier · Karachi · Marrakesh · Lahore

References

  • Mustafa Kemal YeğenFenerbahçe University
  • Serdar YurtalanDirector, TRUCAS Eğitim ve Danışmanlık
  • Dr. Osman GültekinInternational Academic Relations Coordinator, Istanbul Aydın University
  • Mohamed Larbi BahouRenault, Tangier Plant

Contact

If you are recruiting across borders, or trying to reach students where they are, that is my work. Tell me about it.

Download CV · PDF, English