Othman El Ferdaous (, born January 13, 1979), is a Moroccan politician. He has been the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports from April 6, 2020 until October 7, 2021. Between 2008 and 2016, Othman El Ferdaous worked at

Mena Media Consulting Mena Media Consulting or simply Mena Media is a Moroccan public relations firm owned by King of Morocco Mohammed VI's friend and influential advisor Fouad Ali El Himma. The company was founded by Saudi businessman Othman Al Omeir in late 2004. ...

as "director in charge of mission". The company was involved in social media surveillance in Morocco, and was actively "listing and profiling activists writing on blogs and social media platforms".

Biography

Othman El Ferdaous is from

Tafraout Tafraout, also Tafraoute (, ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco. Situated in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains, a mountain range in Morocco which is part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa, the to ...

, he is married and father of 2 children and his father Abdellah Ferdaous was a former

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

, politician and president of the famous football club Raja de

Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...

. After obtaining his

baccalauréat The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...

from Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca in 1997, he joined the

Audencia Business School Audencia Business School is a French grande école and business school located in Nantes, France. The school enrolls 7,800 students from almost 90 countries in bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs, doctorates and executi ...

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to obtain a management diploma in 2003. Between 2003 and 2006, Othman El Ferdaous worked as a consulting auditor at

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in the banking and

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. At the same time, he obtained a

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in journalism from

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

Paris in 2008 and an executive

in 2016 from the ENA cycle of higher European studies, promotion

Ursula Von Der Leyen Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; ; born 8 October 1958) is a German politician, serving as president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the Cabinet of Germany, German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding position ...

References

Living people Politicians from Casablanca Sciences Po alumni Culture ministers of Morocco Youth ministers of Morocco Sports ministers of Morocco 1979 births {{Morocco-bio-stub 21st-century Moroccan politicians