Founder &
Product Owner.
Translating
complexity
into value.
Four practices: tech, creative economy, contemporary art, writing. Kept distinct. Each has its own rules, clients, deliverables.
- MIT Professional Education
- UNCTAD · Genève
- UNESCO
- AFD · Université Senghor
- EHESS · Paris
- Sup de Pub · Lyon
Founder and Product Owner. 360° view: business, process, product.
Design and delivery of AI, automation and DLT products for companies, institutions and regulated markets. Technical complexity becomes business value.
Thirteen years in cultural and creative development.
Programme design and delivery across the Maghreb, MENA and West Africa. Cultural and creative industries, employability through culture, cultural diplomacy, training.
Gallerist and art advisor.
Two active structures: Armature, a curatorial studio for African and Mediterranean artists; Mono Tunis, the first digital-art gallery in Africa and the Arab world.
Author, critic, journalist.
Essays, books, columns, art criticism. Published by Skira, Diptyk, Afrique Magazine, Bozar; Venice and Bamako biennials.
The blind spot of the visible · Palestine
A very exposed scene
La Main Tunisienne
The Myth of Institutionalised Fairness
Afrotopia: reversing the camera obscura
Journal d'une défaite
Champs et contre-chants
Mare Mortiferum
Four practices. Kept distinct.
I work across four distinct registers that don't merge: tech, the creative economy, contemporary art, writing.
In tech, I'm a founder and Product Owner. My value isn't in the code but in specifying, orchestrating, shipping. Turning technological complexity into business value.
In the creative economy, thirteen years of institutional expertise for cultural development across the Maghreb, MENA and West Africa. In art, two active structures: Armature and Mono Tunis. In writing, books, essays, criticism.
Tunisian and French. Born in Tunis, trained in Paris, based in Dakar.
Full biography.
Career, structures, mandates, publications. For press and research.
Shiran Ben Abderrazak is a Franco-Tunisian Founder and Product Owner based in Dakar (Senegal), operating across West Africa, the Maghreb and Europe. Born in Tunis on 6 December 1983, he designs and ships AI, automation and Distributed Ledger Technology products for public institutions, regulated financial actors and cultural operators. Turning technological complexity into business value.
On the tech side, current projects include RWA (real-world-asset tokenisation of mineral value chains between Central Africa and the Gulf, with a sovereign partner), MCCC (brand AI platform) and Talent AI (agentic recruitment). He completed MIT Professional Education — Blockchain (2022).
In the creative economy, thirteen years of institutional mandates with UNESCO (Palestine, 2023–2025), the AFD / Senghor University (Kreafrika programme, 2022–2025), UNCTAD (Africa co-chair 2021, contributor to the report Advancing the measurement of the creative economy, 2024), Creative Europe (general coordinator Tunisia, 2017–2018) and the Rambourg Foundation (executive director 2018–2022, annual budget ≈ €600,000, team of 10). Since June 2025, treasurer of the Roberto Cimetta Fund (Paris).
On the contemporary-art side, he directs two structures: Armature, a curatorial studio for African and Mediterranean artists, and Mono Tunis, the first digital-art gallery in Africa and the Arab world (co-founded with Kenza Zouari, artistic director, and Mohamed Ali Douiri), based in the medina of Tunis.
On the writing side, he is an author and art critic. Publications include Journal d'une défaite (2015), La Main Tunisienne (Skira, 2022), contributions to Diptyk, Afrique Magazine, Bozar, the Bamako Biennale, the Venice Biennale and La Presse de Tunisie. He teaches at Sup de Pub Lyon in the MA Art Direction programme (Web3, AI, XR) since 2023.
Education: EHESS (MA Political Studies, Magna Cum Laude, under Bernard Manin, 2012), Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (Modern Literature), Hypokhâgne (Lycée de Sèvres). Teaches at Sup de Pub Lyon (MA Art Direction, Web3, AI, XR) since 2023. Working languages: French, English, Arabic. For press, speaking and partnerships: sba@kasventures.be.
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