Profile – Ms. Fatima Zahra Mansouri Minister of National Territory Rehabilitation Urbanization, Housing and City Governance

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, ministre de l’Aménagement du territoire national, de l’Urbanisme, de l’Habitat et de la Politique de la ville.

King Mohammed VI appointed last Thursday at the Royal Palace in Fez, Ms. Fatima Zahra Mansouri Minister of National Territory Rehabilitation, Urbanization, Housing and City Governance, among the newly-appointed cabinet led by Mr. Aziz Akhnouch.

Ms. Mansouri was born in 1976 from a famous family originally from Rhamna area and she is the daughter of Abderrahman Mansouri who served as the Pasha of Marrakech city for eight years.

Ms. Mansouri holds a degree in Anglo-Saxon business law from New York university, in the U.S.; in addition to post graduate studies in the law of business contracts from Montpelier university in France and had graduated from Mohammed V university with a BA in the private law and had a baccalaureate from Victor Hugo high school in Marrakech.

PAM colleagues prefer to call Ms. Mansouri “the party consciousness”. Ms. Mansouri has a large professional experience as a lawyer and she runs an attorney office specialized in trade and real estate transaction law. She was elected as mayor of Marrakech representing the PAM (current mandate).

Minister of Housing, Ms. Mansouri enjoys a large political expertise since she has won the membership of the party politburo for two mandates and was elected as President of the PAM national council, as a member of Parliament for two tenures and as a mayor of Marrakech for two mandates.

She was chosen as the most powerful and most influential young lady leader in Africa according to an ad of US magazine Forbes (specialized in money and business).

Ms. Mansouri ranked the first in a list of 20 ladies working in the realm of politics, among them businesswomen and from other fields pertaining to 7 African states.

Ms. Mansouri was also rewarded in previous occasions (March 2014) after she was chosen by the Young Global Leaders Forum to be included into the list of the best young leaders in the world for 2014, as the President of the Association of the French Law students and as President of Mounia to safeguard the heritage.