Driss Guerraoui

Corresponding Member

Social Sciences: PhD in Economic Sciences

Date of admission: October 25, 2021

Admission speech: “Is Africa Europe’s Future? What Roles can the Moroccan-Spanish Partnership Play?”

Reply by: Hble. Dr. Rosalía Arteaga Serrano, PhD in Jurisprudence and Anthropology

DR. DRISS GUERRAOUI

  • Born on December 12, 1952, in Kénitra, Morocco.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

TEACHING ACTIVITY

  • Professor at Université Lumière Lyon II (1978–1982).
  • Professor of Economics at École Centrale de Lyon (1980–1982).
  • Professor of Economics at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (1980–1982).
  • Professor at the University of Fez (1982–1998).
  • Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes 2.
  • Professor at the Mohammed V University of Rabat since 1998.
  • President of the Open University of Dakhla since 2010.
  • Professor at the Royal College of Higher Military Education since 2016.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Advisor to the Prime Minister of Morocco (1998–2011).
  • Member of the General Secretariat of the National Council for Youth and the Future (1991–1998).
  • President of the Association for Studies and Research for Development.
  • Deputy President of the Association Rives Méditerranéennes.
  • Founding Member of the Moroccan Association of Economic Intelligence.
  • Vice President of the International Francophone Association for Economic Intelligence.
  • Founding Member of the Observatory for Strategic Studies of the Union for the Mediterranean.
  • Coordinator of the Interministerial Technical Committee for the Implementation of the Medical Coverage Code (1998–2011).
  • Secretary-General of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (2011–2018).
  • President of the Competition Council (2018–2021).
  • President of the Maison de la Francophonie of Dakhla and of the African Network of Maisons de la Francophonie.
  • Member of the Executive Bureau of the International Network of Maisons des Francophonies.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Agriculture et Développement au Maroc, 1985.
  • Les paysans, quel avenir?, 1986.
  • Enjeux agricoles, 1991 (with Najib Akesbi).
  • L’économie marocaine, mutations et enjeux, 1996.
  • Le Maroc et l’avenir, 1999.
  • Les grands défis économiques de la Méditerranée, 1998–2001 (several editions).
  • L’intelligence économique, problèmes et interrogations, 2005.
  • Le Maroc des jeunes, 2006 (with N. Affaya).
  • L’Afrique vue par les jeunes, 2007 (with N. Affaya).
  • L’élite économique marocaine, 2009 (with N. Affaya).
  • Économie et sociétés du XXIe siècle, 2016.
  • Le développement, la fin d’un modèle?, 2018.
  • L’Afrique des paradoxes, 2019 (with N. Affaya).
  • Abderrahmane Youssoufi, leçons pour l’histoire, 2020.

DISTINCTIONS

  • Medal of the American Association of the United Nations, Hawaii Section (2003).
  • Medal of the United Nations Development Programme (2005).
  • Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic (2007).
  • Medal of Economic Intelligence (2011).
  • Cultural Merit Medal of the Luso-Arab Foundation (2011).
  • Mediterranean Honor Award, Mediterranean Foundation, Italy (2011).
  • Doctor Honoris Causa by the École de Commerce de Lyon (2017).
  • Member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal (2017).
  • Gold Medal of the Renaissance Française, France (2018).
  • Member of the Academy of Economic Intelligence, Collège des Émérites, France (2021).