Abdel-Ilah AFIFI
Dr Abdel-Ilah AFIFI, born in Rabat in 1959, is a State Engineer alumnus of the Mohammadia School of Engineers. He holds a Masters Degree in Applied Sciences (M.A.S) and a PhD. from Sherbrooke University in Canada.
Dr AFIFI is the Secretary General of the Department of Culture at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports since 2018. He previously held several positions of responsibility at the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training. Thus, he was the Director of Budget and General Affairs; Director of Executive Training; Acting Director of Technology and Acting Director of Scientific Research and Innovation. He was also Director of the Higher School of Technology at Hassan II University in Casablanca.
Dr AFIFI worked at the Ministry of Energy and Mines as Head of the New Energies Department and in charge of national pilot projects related to new and renewable energies.
In addition, Dr AFIFI was a Senior Lecturer and Professor of Higher Education at the Higher School of Technology in Casablanca and at the Mohammadia School of Engineers in Rabat (EMI); Teacher and Researcher at the Polytechnic School of Montreal (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) and Sherbrooke University in Canada. He was also a visiting professor at several universities: ETS in Montreal, University of Aix-Marseille, University of Alexandria in Egypt and University of Gafsa in Tunisia.
At the international level, Dr AFIFI worked as coordinator and director of several research and innovation projects: the PRIMA initiative (Partnership Research and Innovation In the Mediterranean Area), a twinning project between Morocco and the European Union “Supporting the national system of research for integration into the European research area” as well as several multilateral cooperation projects: MOBILISE, MIRA, MEDSPRING, ARIMNET, INCONET, ERANETMED.
Dr AFIFI directed and contributed to various programs in the field of energy, quality assurance, employability, institutional capacity building in the context of cooperation with several international organizations (World Bank, African Bank for Development, ISESCO, ALECSO, USAID, ACDI, AFD).
Moreover, Dr AFIFI was the Director of the Process Engineering Research Laboratory and of the “Energy, Environment and Processes (E2P)” Research Unit at The Higher School of Technology in Casablanca. He was equally responsible for the heavy oils research laboratory (LARHL) .
Dr AFIFI is the author of dozens of national and international communications and publications.