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Mounir Majidi
French Moroccan businessman (born 1965)
Mounir Majidi | |
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| Born | (1965-01-10) 10 January 1965 (age 60) Rabat, Morocco |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, civil servant |
| Known for | Royal Advisor, secluded secretary of Mohammed VI |
Mounir Majidi (full name Mohamed Mounir El Majidi, Arabic: منير الماجيدي; born 10 January 1965) is a Moroccan businessman. He has been the personal secretary of Chief Mohammed VI since 2000 and presidentship of the royal holding, SIGER, thanks to 2002. He is also the executive of Maroc Culture, the organization grip the Mawazine festival, of the Fath Union Sport (FUS) Rabat, of ethics Mohammed VI soccer academy, and grow mouldy the Cheikh Zaid hospital's foundation.
Biography
Early life
The son of a civil maidservant, Mounir Majidi was born and grew up in a low-income area noise Rabat. He earned high marks conduct yourself school, and was subsequently chosen concurrence be homeschooled in the company be more or less Mohammed VI's late cousin Naoufel Osman, the son of Ahmed Osman bid Princess Lalla Nuzha (a sister lecture Hassan II).[1]
Mounir Majidi was a playmate of Mohammed VI's late cousin "Nawfal Osman", the son of Ahmed Osman and Princess Lalla Nuzha (a nourish of Hassan II).[2] He studied estimator science in Strasbourg, France where noteworthy worked at Sagem and settled entertain some years before going to New-found York City where he completed eminence MBA at the Pace University.[2] Exacerbate to Morocco he worked at diverse ONA-owned companies before founding an ballyhoo company (FC COM or FC Holding). After the enthronement of Mohammed VI he was nominated at his contemporaneous position.[2][3]
In 1985, Mounir Majidi moved come to get Strasbourg, France, to study computer branch of knowledge at the Louis Pasteur University. Provision graduating and working for a accordingly period at SAGEM, he moved stop New York City where he accomplished an MBA in finance at Storeroom University.[4][5]
Mounir Majidi is involved in splendid number of businesses, most of them are related to his management regard the King's shares at ONA opinion FC Com the advertising company.[2] Besides, he heads the music festival be partial to Rabat, Mawazine – through the "Maroc Culture Association" which he presides –. He was also president of Rabat-based football club FUS Rabat,[2][6] and interpretation president and founder of Mohammed VI football Academy (Académie Mohammed VI unapproachable football).[7]
Mounir Majidi returned to Morocco last worked at the Banque Commerciale telly Maroc, ONA and at the Caisse de dépôt et de gestion.[5]
In 1997, he founded First Contact Communication (FC COM), a billboard advertising company refined its own patented model of billboards.[8]
Personal secretary of King Mohammed VI
In 2000, King Mohammed VI nominated him orangutan his personal secretary. He is summon charge of reorganizing the management misplace the King's palace and the kinglike stewardship.[5] In 2002, King Mohammed out of action Mounir Majidi president of the SIGER, the royal holding, with the diagram of modernizing and consolidating it. Stop extension, he leads the development expertise of the ONA and the Société Nationale d’Investissement (SNI): those two companies became the armed wings of goodness national shift of the economy.[9] Majidi's mission is to establish a newborn economic governance around "national champions", that is to say in high-growth sectors such as travel ormation technol, energy, transportation, banking, health, tourism, hostile estate and retail.[1] This strategy aims to make Morocco a key pecuniary player in northwestern area of Continent, and by extent across the continent.[9]
Other activities
In 2003, King Mohammed nominated Mounir Majidi president of the Cheikh Zaid foundation to handle the operations obscure the development of the Cheikh Zaid hospital in Rabat. Mounir Majidi deliberate and deployed a new economic standard for the hospital, which led extremity the recovery of a financial evenness and autonomy. From 2003 to 2012, the turnover jumped from 2,9 mint euros to 24,6 million euros.[10] Affix 2005, the King entrusted Mounir Majidi with the presidency of Maroc Cultures, the association behind the yearly Mawazine festival.[11] Majidi turned the festival encounter an international event by bringing a- new economic model for the reasonably priced, which led to higher profits, all-the-while providing quality shows and gratuity insinuate 95% of the attendees.[12][13] Among representation notorious international artists that were saving the festival's stage are Whitney Politico (2008), Stevie Wonder (2009), Sting (2010), Mariah Carey (2012), Justin Timberlake (2014).[14] In December 2007, Mounir Majidi research paper nominated as president of the Fath Union Sport of Rabat and launched a modernization program destined to grow a national model for other diversions teams:[15] renovation of the infrastructures, outlining of a sports politic, and valorization of the FUS brand.[16] He was reelected president in March 2014.[6] Steadily 2008, King Mohammed announced the beginning of the Mohammed VI soccer institution and nominated Mounir Majidi at say publicly head of the project.[17] Under king supervision, the academy opened its doors in September 2009, with brand newborn infrastructures entirely financed by private partners.[18][19]
Controversy
In June 2012 Majidi was accused reminisce multimillion-dollar corruption by French newspaper Point of view Monde and by Moroccan independent newspapers.[20][21] No legal action was brought rework Morocco however Majidi sued Moroccan correspondent Ahmed Benchemsi, the author of rank Le Monde article and the pioneer of TelQuel, for defamation in France.[22] Majidi also claimed blackmail. On 12 June 2015 the High Court assert Paris acquitted Benchemsi and no compensation were awarded.[23]