ESSEC GROUP - Key Persons
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- Executive Vice - President
Holder of a master's degree in Industrial Engineering at ENSI, Abdelhak Belkhadir has more than 4 years of experience with Sodexo Morocco after gaining extensive technical and managerial experience in other roles. He joined ESSEC Africa as a Facility manager.
After obtaining a Master's degree in Computer Science, Signals, and Telecommunications, Amal chose to focus on her passion for new media and digital communication. She gained six years of experience in the digital press and journalism sector. With her technical knowledge and expertise in digital communication, Amal joined the team at ESSEC Africa as a communications officer.
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- Academic Director - ESSEC Global BBA, Innovation & Digital Management
Holding a doctorate in Economics from Princeton University, Cristina Terra has taught in France, Brazil and the United States. She was the director of the EM2P Doctoral School at the University of Cergy-Pontoise and director of bachelor and doctoral programs at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil. She is also a professor of economics at ESSEC Business School. She joined ESSEC Africa as the Academic Director of the ESSEC Global BBA program, Parcours Innovation & Digital Management.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Juliette / Master in Strategy & Management of International Business ( SMIB )
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- Gloria / Master in Finance ( MIF )
An alumnus of the Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD Switzerland) in Management Engineering, holding a Master of Science in Industrial Technologies from the HES-SO specializing in Production & Manufacturing, Fatine Essafi has accumulated several experiences in the Swiss industrial sector as well as in the education sector and public higher education in Switzerland. She also joined a private international university upon her return to Morocco and subsequently joined ESSEC Africa as a program manager for initial training.
Holding a master's degree in drug quality control and continuing her doctoral studies in pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics at Rabat's Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ghita has 2 years of experience at a private university in Rabat (UIASS) as a pedagogical coordinator and head of the Résidanat service.
Ghita joined the ESSEC Africa team as Program Coordinator for Executive Education.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of Programs
Doctor of geopolitics (University of Paris 8) and an expert in company-territories relations as well as territorial conflict management. Guillaume Bouvier also worked as an associate professor at the French Institute of Geopolitics while managing public affairs and communication for large network companies (EDF, SNCF network). He joined ESSEC Africa to develop initial and executive education programs.
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- Security and Transport Executive
After his business studies, Haitam Hamdouni was in charge of the logistical management of a Moroccan consultant and research office for nearly two years. Within the ESSEC Africa campus, he is in charge of the proper execution of internal facilities projects and supplier relations.
Hind Loukili holds a Master Degree from Rennes School of Business and a Double Degree from Rabat Business School of the International University of Rabat in Marketing and Communication. She has 8 years of experience in the education sector. Hind has worked in a variety of fields, including corporate relations development, international academic relations, and business development, before specializing in branding and communication.
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- Director and Deputy Dean ESSEC Africa
Holder of the Miage Master from Paris Dauphone University, a DEA from UPMC and an MBA from New York University (NYU), Hugues Levecq began his career as assistant professor, first in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, then at Baruch College. He joined the ESSEC Business School in 2008, as director of studies, and was appointed Director of the Global BBA, a position he will continue to assume alongside his duties as Director of the ESSEC Africa Campus. Hugues Levecq is also chairman of the Executive Committee of the Sesame Contest.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Jihane Talbi holds a master's degree in Human Resources Management from the ENCG of Settat. She has ten years of experience in the field of French education. She started her professional career at the Descartes high school in Rabat before continuing it within the IEG group. She specializes in the management of exams and the different courses offered in the French educational system. Jihane Talbi joined ESSEC to participate in the development of the programs.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice - President
Holder of a Bachelor's degree in English studies (Mohamed V University - Souissi) and an MBA in Human resources management (American University of Management - Rabat). Kenza has an experience of 4 years in project coordination, office management and event management.
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- International Partnerships Officer
Khelil Mehenni, a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, began his career in economic diplomacy and public affairs, where he worked on complex projects involving Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. He is in charge of developing partnerships with African universities and institutions at the ESSEC Africa campus.
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- Head of Career Services, Alumni & Corporate Relations
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- Deputy Director General and Pedagogical Director
Malika Chaouky is a doctorate candidate in information and communication sciences (Toulouse I) and has worked as a teacher, educational director, human resources director, and consultant. As Deputy Director General, she joined ESSEC Africa.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Director of Executive Education and Institutional & Corporate Relations
Graduated from Paris-Dauphine University, Meryem Chami was able to develop a global vision of the functioning of the company and its organization during her professional experience. With a rich and varied background in auditing and banking finance, then in institutional and event communication, she took over the management of the construction and launch project of the Groupe Scolaire Jacques Chirac in Rabat. Meryem joins ESSEC Africa later on as the Executive Director of Education and Institutional Relations and Corporate Partnerships.
Mouhcine HICHY graduated from the University of Grenoble 2 in organizational management and in social and human sciences. He is a specialist in business development and in consulting for companies in the field of training engineering, organizational support and strategic partnerships, and has also led a career as a business developer in various sectors of activity, including real estate, human and territorial development, commercial communication and the world of education, to which he pays particular attention; He joined ESSEC Africa to develop the executive education programs, namely the Executive Certificates and the Inter-company training dedicated to Managers.
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- Director of Communications
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- Group Human Capital Director
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- Administrative and Accounting Executive
A graduate of the HEM (Institut des Hautes Etudes de Management) in Casablanca, Nizar Errabi is specialized in "corporate and business management and finance." He worked as an auditor-accountant in a firm of auditors and accountants before joining the ESSEC Africa team.
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- Master in Finance ( MIF )
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Deputy Dean, ESSEC Asia - Pacific
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- Deputy Director of Studies
A graduate in Economic History from the London School of Economics, Robin has five years of teaching experience at various schools and universities in England and Morocco.
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- Business Development Manager
A graduate of ENCG and EMLYON's Grande Ecole program, specialized in business development in Africa and Morocco after working in the education sector and private higher education. Salaheddine Chafouk is in charge of business development for ESSEC Africa's executive education programs.
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- Chief of Pedagogical Entrepreneurial Projects
Graduate of Laureate Universities in Mechanical Energy Engineering and UC Berkeley's Social Entrepreneurship program. Salaheddine Moutacharif has 5 years of experience in the field of social innovation design and youth entrepreneurship, working with national and international NGOs on design thinking approaches and open innovation hacks. He is in charge of the entrepreneurial pole and the implementation of ANTROPIA ESSEC programs.
With a degree in biology and a BAC+2 in business management and accounting, Sara El Ktaibi has more than 4 years of experience in different sectors. During these 4 years, Sara has held several positions as an accountant, customer service representative and receptionist.
An ESCA School of Management in Marketing and Communication graduate, Sarah has over 5 years of experience in various business sectors (higher education, B to B and B to C commerce, and telecommunications). She joined ESSEC to develop executive certificates with the Executive Education department.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Dean
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
Dean & president
Professor, information systems, decision sciences and statistics department
Chair of the AACSB European Advisory Council
Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Ph.D. degree in computational statistics and post-doctoral fellow at the university of Naples "Federico II" in Italy, is Professor of statistics, and dean and president of ESSEC Business School, France. He is the former president of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), of the European board of directors of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), and elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) council. He is associate editor of the international journals computational statistics and data analysis (Elsevier), computational statistics (Springer), and advances in data analysis and classification (Springer).
His research interests (more than 70 published papers and books) have mainly focused on methodological developments in the field of multivariate statistical analysis with specific reference to factorial methods, procrustes rotations, analysis of paired tables, structural equation modelling, PLS (Partial Least Squares) regression and predictive modelling, multiple table analysis. He has taken a special care of the application relevance of his methodological contributions with specific reference to the domains of business and industry, sensory data, social surveys, customer satisfaction surveys with respect to both commodities and public services, total quality measurement and a focus on Big Data and business analytics with predictive purposes.
Among other awards, in 2005 he was awarded with the Pierre-Vernimmen-BNP Paribas "Teaching Awards 2005" (visiting professors category) at HEC School of Management in Paris, France. Two of his papers were recognized as the Top-Cited 2005-2010 Article in the Journal "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis" by Elsevier. He acted as the editor-in-chief of the "Handbook on Partial Least Squares: Concepts, Methods and Applications" released by Springer, Europe in 2010.
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- Recruitment and Marketing Manager
A graduate of ESCA Management School in Marketing and Communication, Younes Chiguer has a professional experience of over 10 years in different sectors in project management, marketing consulting and development.