Abdesselam Aboudrar

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Abdesselam Aboudrar ( Arabic عبد السلام أبو درار, DMG ʿAbd as-Salām Abū Dirār ; * 1950 in Salé ) is a Moroccan diplomat who has been Ambassador to the Court of St James’s since February 9, 2017 .

Career

In 1973 he graduated from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées with a degree in civil engineering .

The clandestine opposition in Morocco published the Ilal Aman newspaper on October 2, 1972, in which two political groups were represented. One of the two factions of the tendency of the Union Nationale des Forces Populaires gave itself in April 1973 the name Mouvement 23 Mars, with which it referred positively to the student unrest on March 23, 1965 in Casablanca . Aboudrar Abdesselam returned to Morocco where he was imprisoned from November 1974 to November 1979 while he was tortured to establish contacts with Mouvement 23 Mars.

From 1979 to 1997 he worked as a consulting engineer as well as in management positions in the public and private sectors in the areas of evaluation, management and project finance. He has been a Master of Business Administration since 2000.

From 1998 to 2002 he headed the pension insurance. From 2002 to 2006 he was Secretary General of the Caisse de dépôt et de gestion (CDG) before he was appointed Deputy Director General of this institution in March 2006.

In August 2008 he was by Mohammed VI. (Morocco) appointed President of the Central Authority for the Prevention of Corruption (ICPC). He was then elected to the Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA), which was a member of the Executive Committee of the same body between 2010 and 2011. As of December 2012 he was elected President of the Arab Network of Fight Against Corruption and for Integrity (ACINET). Mohammed VI later appointed him a member of the National Commission for the Reform of the Judiciary.

Mr. Aboudrar works in numerous scientific, professional and civil organizations, is married and has three children.

predecessor Office successor
Lalla Joumala Alaoui Moroccan Ambassador in London
since February 9, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bidwell, Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor, [1] Marguerite Rollinde, Le mouvement marocain des droits de l'homme: entre consensus, 2002 p. 165
  2. ↑ Morocco's Ambassador to the UK Abdesslame Aboudrar Spent 5 years in Jail, Morocco Times , October 14, 2016, [2]
  3. ↑ Les biographies des nouveaux ambassadeurs marocains, [3]
personal data
SURNAME Aboudrar, Abdesselam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عبد السلام أبو درار (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Salé