Abdessatar Mahfoudhi is an Associate Professor of English and Head of Department at the Australian College of Kuwait and an educational consultant and Head of the Research and Test Development Unit at the Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching in Kuwait. His research interests are in language, literacy, and language-based disabilities, with a focus on Arabic as a first language and English as an additional language.

He previously taught English and Linguistics in Tunisia, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. He also managed and participated in several locally and internationally funded projects in the area of language and literacy, including projects funded by the United Nations Development Program and the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization. He (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and several books and tests, including a comprehensive Arabic intervention program 'I Read and Write!' (K-9) to teach reading and writing to students with reading and writing difficulties and three comprehensive test batteries that assess phonological processing, morphological awareness and reading and spelling in Arabic.  He also co-edited several journal special issues. He is editor and co-founder of the Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics.