Mohamed Hassad ( ar, محمد حصاد, born November 17, 1952) is a Moroccan engineer and politician, formerly serving as

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

in the government of

Abdelilah Benkirane Abdelilah Benkirane ( ar, عبد الإله بنكيران, born 2 April 1954) is a Moroccan politician who was Prime Minister of Morocco from November 2011 to March 2017. After having won a plurality of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election ...

. He later served as Minister of Education before being fired in 2017.

Biography

Hassad was born in the Berber town of

Tafraout Tafraout, also Tafraoute ( ar, تافراوت, Shilha ber, ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco, in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains. It had a population of 4,931 at the 2004 census. Nam ...

in the Sous region on 17 November 1952. He moved to

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to study engineering, graduating from the

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in 1974 and from the

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in 1976. He then held several prominent positions, notably in the field of equipment. Between 1993 and 1995 he served as Minister of Public Works, Vocational Training, and Professional Training in successive governments under Mohammed Karim Lamrani and

Abdellatif Filali Abdellatif Filali ( ar, عبد اللطيف الفيلالي; 26 January 1928 – 20 March 2009) was a Moroccan politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Morocco from 25 May 1994 to 4 February 1998. He was the 11th prime minister o ...

. On January 31, 1995, he was appointed CEO of Morocco's national airline

Royal Air Maroc Royal Air Maroc (; ar, الخطوط الملكية المغربية, , literally ''Royal Moroccan Lines'' or ''Royal Moroccan Airlines''; ber, ⴰⵎⵓⵏⵉ ⴰⵢⵍⴰⵍ ⴰⴳⵍⴷⴰⵏ ⵏ ⴰⵎⵓⵔⴰⴽⵓⵛ, ''Amuni Aylal Age ...

before being elected President of the International Air Transport Association in 1997. On July 27, 2001, Hassad was appointed by King

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as Wali of the Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz region. He was named Wali of the Tangier-Tetouan region and governor of the

Tangier-Assilah Prefecture The prefecture of Tangier-Asilah ( ar, إقليم طنجة أصيلة, links=no, Berber: ⵟⴰⵏⵊⴰ - ⴰⵣⵉⵍⴰ) is a largely urban subdivision of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the K ...

in June 2005. Hassad was named President of the supervisory board of the

Tanger-Med Tanger Med (in Arabic: طنجة المتوسط ) is a Moroccan industrial port complex, located 45 km northeast of Tanger and opposite of Tarifa, Spain (15 km north) on the Strait of Gibraltar, with handling capacities of 9 million containers, on ...

Special Agency in November 1992.

References

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