After attending preparatory classes at the Mohammed V high school, he joined the École Polytechnique in Paris (X93).

Four years later, in 2000, he obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University.

Since 2013, he has been director of computer science research at the Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Systems for Decision Support (LAMSADE) of the CNRS, and honorary professor at the University of Liverpool in 2017.

[1] He is best known for having designed a collective decision method, called majority judgment, in 2007, with another CNRS researcher, Michel Balinski.

[1] The majority judgment developed by Rida Laraki and Michel Balinski is a voting method based on voting by values, or mention (very good, fair, to be rejected...) ultimately obtaining a "majority grade".