[1] Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï has been the Director of Research, National Heritage Institute of Tunisia since 2009, and the President of the Association 'Les amis de Carthage' since 2012.
From 2002 to 2010 she was President of ICOM (Tunisia), and from 2002 to 2005 was a member of the renovation commission at Carthage Museum, where she spent the majority of her career, and is principally responsible for its large collection of Latin epigraphy.
She is a writer and poet, publishing a first collection of poetry, Chams, in 1991, for which she was awarded the “Grand Prix Tahar Haddad de la Nouvelle” in Tunis.
[citation needed] Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï trained in classical dance and was a resident student at the Bolshoi Theater School in Moscow (1965-1967).
[5] Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï was awarded the Serge Lancel Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Institut de France, Paris, 2005), for her study on Carthage.