Mohamed Essaaidi is an EEE Senior Member,   Chief of Party of Interactive Digital Center Morocco (since October 2020).and a Professor at ENSIAS, Mohammed V University,  Rabat (Since January 2020), Past Director of International Cooperation at the Ministry of  General Affairs & Governance, Morocco (2019),  Past Director / Dean on ENSIAS college of engineering of Mohammed V University ( 2011-2019), and faculty member (Professor & Assistant Professor) at the Faculty of Science of Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetuan, Morocco (1993-2011).

He is IEEE Global Cities Alliance, MEA Chairman (2021), IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) Assessment Sub-Committee Member (2021), IEEE EAB Teaching Excellence Editorial Hub, Member (2021). 

He is the founder and past Chairman of the IEEE Morocco Section (2005-2016),  co-founder and chair  of IEEE Morocco APS/MTT-S  joint Chapter (2005-2010),  IEEE Communications / Computer Society Chapter  (2006-2008)  and IEEE Education Society Morocco Chapter chair from 2007 to 2009. 

He has been a member of Committee of Global Accreditation activities of IEEE Education Activities Board (2017-2018). He has been also Director of the Morocco Office of Arab Science and Technology Foundation, ASTF (2006-2009) and the Coordinator of ASTF RD&I Network of Electro-Technology (2006 – 2008).  

He has authored and co-authored 10 books and more than 200 papers in international refereed journals and conferences in the field of Electrical and Computer engineering and its diverse applications including smart homes, smart mobility smart grid and smart cities. He has been Guest Editor of several international journals. He is also an active member of the editorial boards of several international journals in the same fields mentioned above.

Furthermore, he is  the founder and the General Chair / co-chair of several IEEE technically sponsored international conferences such as  Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium (2005, 2007), International Conference of Multimedia Computing and Systems (2009-2016). He also co-organized and co-chaired IEEE Smart Cities Summit in May 2020, the US National Academies  5^th Arab American Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontiers Symposium  in November 2017, Rabat, Morocco and US NSF sponsored workshop on Smart Cities in January 2016 in Rabat, Morocco. He has also served in the Organizing committees and TPC and presented keynote talks at many  other international conferences worldwide. 

He holds 10 patents in the field ICT. Some of these patents received several international innovation awards. He was also a member of the IEEE 802.16 Sponsor Ballot Pool of IEEE Standard Association that defined the technical specifications for WiMAX, and of that of  IEEE P2784 - Smart City Planning and Technology Guide Work Group  (2020-2021).

Prof. Essaaidi supervised several Masters and PhDs theses and he has been the principal investigator and the project manager for several research projects in the framework of national and international programs. 

Moreover, in the framework of his  position as the director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of General Affairs and Governance, he was extensively  involved in  the coordination of the World Bank Morocco Country Partnership Framework (2019-2024) and OECD Morocco Country Program (2019-2021) among other international cooperation programs.