Badre is a foresight and strategic policy specialist and Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Mohammed V University in Rabat. His work focuses on migration governance, youth mobility, knowledge production, and socio-political transformation across the MENA and Southern Mediterranean regions. Over the past two decades, his interdisciplinary and mixed-method research has bridged academic scholarship and policy practice, with a strong emphasis on evidence-based policymaking, regional cooperation, and future-oriented governance. His work engages questions related to migration and environmental change, Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, youth transitions, educational transformation, and the politics of knowledge production.

Through research, public speaking, and policy-oriented publications, Badre has collaborated with numerous international organizations, policy networks, and research initiatives, including United Nations, Joint Research Centre, InterAcademy Partnership, Erasmus+, Aspen Institute, MedECC, Global Young Academy, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Next Einstein Forum, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, American Political Science Association, Danube University Krems, European Institute of the Mediterranean, EuroMeSCo, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and Westminster Foundation for Democracy, among others.

Badre also plays an active role in international scholarly publishing and knowledge production. He is a Founding Member and Associate Editor of the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Journal (RUTA), where he contributes to shaping editorial strategy, peer-review governance, and Indigenous knowledge production frameworks. He previously served as Section Editor for the Social Sciences section of Scientific African and as Guest Editor for a special issue on Human Geography and Mobility at Frontiers in Sociology. He has also acted as reviewer and editorial contributor for several international journals and policy initiatives, including the Anna Lindh Foundation Knowledge Production Programme and MedECC regional assessment reports.

Previously, Badre held several international visiting appointments and fellowships, including international fellow at the University of Hong Kong, a visiting fellow at the Central European University in Viena, a Fulbright Senior Fellow at University of Mississippi, an associate researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark, a Fulbright assistant professor at Alfred University in New York, a visiting lecturer at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and an associate researcher at both the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin and United Nations University in Barcelona.

Badre has received numerous international fellowships and recognitions, including the Carnegie, Fulbright, Erasmus-Mundus, Arab Barometer, the Arab Council for Social Sciences and the Next Einstein Fellowship. Currently he is a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Badre’s recent publications include: “Migration policies amidst national aspiration and competing coalitions in the Maghreb region” (2026); “Pragmatism and the re-definition of South–South cooperation: The Royal Atlantic Initiative as a case” (2025); “Impacts of Neo-Banks on North African Migrants’ Remittances and Financial Inclusion” (2024); Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) in Africa. Global Young Academy. (2024); Policy Study: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia – A Comparative Perspective on Maghreb Countries’ Migration Cooperation with Their West African Neighbors (2022).