Zohour Alaoui is Moroccan diplomat who served as Moroccan ambassador to
Sweden
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and Permanent Representative of
Morocco
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to the
(UNESCO). At UNESCO she was elected President of the 39th session of the Organization’s General Conference.
Education
Alaoui attended
Georgetown University
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, Washington D.C. where she obtained a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in 1992 and obtained a degree in Public Law with Political Science Option from
Mohammed V University
Mohammed V University (, ) is a public university in Rabat, Morocco. It was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. It is named after Mohammed V of ...
, Rabat.
Career
She began her career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation as Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in
Washington
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from 1987 to 1992 before being appointed Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs serving between 1993 and 1995. She became Chief of the Service for Governmental Organizations of a Political Nature in 1995 and served until 1997 when she was appointed Chief of the Service for the
United Nations General Assembly
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and
Security Council
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serving until 1999. She was Director of the Division for the United Nations and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation from 2003 to 2006 when she was appointed non-resident Ambassador to the
Republic of Latvia
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and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Morocco to Sweden from January 2006 to December 2011. She joined the UNESCO in 2011 as Permanent Ambassador-Delegate of Morocco and remained in this position until 2017 when she was elected President of the 39th session of the UNESCO General Conference for a term of two years (2017-2019).
Honour
Alaoui was honored with Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star by the Kingdom of Sweden.
References
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21st-century Moroccan women
Moroccan women ambassadors
Permanent delegates of Morocco to UNESCO
Mohammed V University alumni
Georgetown University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ambassadors of Morocco to Sweden
Ambassadors of Morocco to Latvia