His Majesty King Mohammed VI on Thursday, October 7, appointed members of the new government. Mr. Ryad Mezzour, as Minister of Industry and Trade.

The Department of Industry and Commerce was scheduled to be led by Moulay Hafid Elalamy indefinitely. However, this ministry was eventually delegated to his Chief of Staff. Indeed, King Mohammed VI appointed Ryad Mezzour to lead this distinguished ministry.

This engineer from the Zurich Polytechnic School was born in Rabat in 1971 and is a member of the executive committee of the Alliance of Istiqlal economists.

In 1996, he began his professional career with the Swiss ABB group, which he left two years later to pursue a Masters degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

He obtained the valuable sesame keys and joined the firm Deloitte as a consultant in charge of financial services. He returned to Morocco in 2003 to become the Managing Director of Budget, which was recently acquired by Finance.com.

He took ship for Somed two years later, where he was appointed counselor to the chairman before taking over the trade department and eventually the commercial management of the Zellidja subsidiary.

Mezzour was named General Manager of Suzuki Morocco in 2009, a post he held until 2013, before spending almost five years as an expert at the Economic, Social, and Environmental Council (CESE).

Mezzour joined the Moulay Hafid Elalamy circle as a senior expert in July 2019 during the government of former Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani to work on the implementation of the industrial acceleration plan, the recovery plan, and the import substitution strategy, among other things.

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King Mohammed VI appointed Leila Benali as the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Thursday, October 7, 2021.

Leila Benali, a well-known specialist in energy strategy and sustainability, was recently nominated by the King to lead the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development.

Leila Benali is the Chief Economist and Director of Strategy at Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP). She was also a member of the Special Commission on Development Model (CSMD).

She possesses a DEA in political science and a PhD in energy economics Summa Cum Laude from Sciences Po, as well as being a Laureate of the Mohammedia School of Engineers and the Ecole Centrale Paris.

She has led a number of projects throughout her career, including the development of plans and policies for governments, energy firms, industrialists, and institutional investors.

Leila Benali was also the Middle East and Africa Director of HIS, an international security and energy research and consulting organization, a professor at Sciences Po, and an industrial engineer at Schlumberger.

Energy Poverty: Global Challenges and Local Answers, published in 2014, was acclaimed as a “must read” by former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, as “must read by anyone who sincerely wants to find significant solutions to energy poverty.”

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