Michael Bennaïm graduated from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 2012. After completing an internship at the same university, he worked in the U.K. at the Animal Health Trust, a charity dedicated to animal health and welfare. 

In 2014, he undertook an ECVIM-CA residency program at University College Dublin (Ireland). Concurrently, he conducted research on the diagnosis of hypothyroidism and spontaneous hypercortisolism in dogs and successfully defended a doctoral thesis on this topic in 2018. He has been an ECVIM-CA diplomate since 2019. 

Over the last five years, Michael Bennaïm has been practicing in a private referral center in south of France (Bordeaux), where he currently leads the internal medicine department. Michael Bennaïm remains involved in research, primarily focusing on the field of small animal endocrinology. Furthermore, he is actively involved in interns and residents training as well as continuous professional development of primary care veterinary surgeons.