El Mehdi Zeroual earned a Bachelor Degree in Communication Studies from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane in 2009. In his thesis, El Mehdi conducted a research on the use of mobile communication by Moroccan youth. Before graduating, he did three months internship in the Ministry of National Education on GENIE project which aims at introducing New Communication Technologies to public schools.

After his graduation from Al Akhawayn University, he worked in the area of democracy and governance as a program assistant in the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI-Morocco) in the Political Parties program.

El Mehdi has recently joined IIE as the Training Coordinator for the E-mediat Morocco, a new technology training and capacity building program run by IIE.