Hakima El Haite
Moroccan climate scientist, entrepreneur and politician (born 1963) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hakima El Haite (born 13 May 1963) is a Moroccan climate scientist, entrepreneur and politician.
Hakima El Haite | |
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حكيمة الحيطي | |
Born | (1963-05-13) 13 May 1963 (age 61) |
Nationality | Moroccan |
Alma mater | Moulay Ismail University |
Occupation(s) | Climate scientist, politician |
Political party | Popular Movement |
In 1994 she founded EauGlobe, the first environmental engineering firm in the MENA region. She served as Minister Delegate in Charge of the Environment for the Kingdom of Morocco from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, she was elected Vice President of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). She was appointed Special Envoy for Climate Change of the Kingdom of Morocco from 2015 to 2017 and the High Level Climate Champion of the United Nations International Climate Conference (COP22) from 2016 – 2017.
She is the current president of the Liberal International since December 2018, the first non-European in this post.[1]