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Board of Trustees

High Patronage

HM MOHAMED VI

HM King of Morocco

High Patronage

HM FELIPE VI

HM King of Spain

Honorary presidency

MR JUAN MANUEL MORENO BONILLA

President of the Junta de Andalucía

Co-chair

M. ANDRÉ AZOULAY

Adviser to HM Mohamed VI

Co-chair

MRS PATRICIA DEL POZO

Councillor for Culture and Sport

MR J.MANUEL ALBARES BUENO

Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Government of Spain

M. MOHAMED MEHDI BENSAID

Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication of the Kingdom of Morocco

MR DIEGO MARTÍNEZ BELIO

Secretary of State for Cooperation of Foreign and Global Affairs of the Government of Spain

M. CHAKIB BENMOUSSA

Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports of the Kingdom of Morocco

MR JOSÉ LUIS SANZ

Mayor of Seville

MM. SAÏD AMZAZI

Former Minister of National Education of the Kingdom of Morocco

MR ANTONIO SANZ CABELLO

Regional Minister for the Presidency, the Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification

M. SAMI GOUDAR

President of the Marrakech Region

MR TOMÁS BURGOS

First Vice-President

Deputy Minister for the Presidency, Home Affairs, Social Dialogue and Simplification
Administrative

Biography

Deputy Minister of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification of the Andalusian Regional Government.

Born in Valladolid in 1962, he held the post of Secretary General of the Presidency during the last legislature.

He studied Medicine and Surgery at the University of Valladolid, which he completed with a Diploma in Health Institutions Management and Health Management at IESE (University of Navarra) and in Health Management at ESADE (Escuela Superior de Administración de Empresas).

He was a member of the regional parliament for Valladolid from 1987 to 1991 in the Castilla y León parliament and was also a member of the national parliament for that constituency in the Congress of Deputies from the 5th to the 12th legislature.

From January 2012 to June 2018 he was Secretary of State for Social Security at the Ministry of Employment and Social Security.

Among other distinctions, he holds the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit, awarded in September 2018.

MME. AZIZA BENNANI

Second Vice-President

Former Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco and Morocco's Permanent Ambassador to UNESCO

Biography

Born in Rabat in 1943, she is the former permanent ambassador of Morocco to UNESCO, where she was the first
female ambassador of Morocco.

She has been director of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Mohammed V University (1974-1988).

She was Secretary of State to the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in charge of Culture in the government from 1997 to 1981.

In 1988 she became dean of the Faculty of Arts at Hassan II Mohammedia University.

In 2007, she was elected President of the 16th General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

MR. ENRIQUE OJEDA VILA

Spanish Ambassador to Morocco

MME. KARIMA BENYAICH

Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Spain

MR JOSÉ ENRIQUE MILLO ROCHER

Secretary

Secretary General
of External Action
of the Junta de Andalucía

Biography

Secretary General for External Action, European Union and Cooperation of the Regional Government of Andalusia.

He holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), specialising in Business Economics, and has also studied Politics and Government at UPF-UB-ESADE.

His professional career includes activity in the private and public sector, where he has been delegate of the Spanish Government in Catalonia between November 2016 and June 2018 and territorial delegate of the Ministry of Labour of the Generalitat, in Girona, between 1991 and 1995. He has also been a member of the Catalan Parliament, where he has held various positions, and until his arrival in the Andalusian Government in 2019 he worked as an economist, advisor and consultant.

Until now, he was Secretary General for External Action.

M. FOUAD YAZOURH

Ambassador Director-General for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad of the Kingdom of Morocco

Biography

Fouad Yazourh is a career diplomat with more than 30 years of experience.

He is currently Director General for Bilateral Relations and Regional Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, a position he has held since February 2018.

From 2003 to 2006, he was Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in Madrid. In 2006, he was appointed Director of Communication at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation until 2009, when he became Director of American Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

In 2011, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Morocco to the Republic of Argentina. Among the distinctions he has received, the Order of Civil Merit awarded by His Majesty King Juan Carlos I in 2006 and the Grand Cross of the Liberator San Martín of Argentina in 2018 stand out.

MR JOSÉ IGNACIO GARCÍA PÉREZ

Rector of the International University of Andalusia

M. REDOUANE ADGHOGHI

Director of European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad of the Kingdom of Morocco


MR JESÚS TORONJO

Director General of Migration Policies of the Andalusian Regional Government

MME. AMINA BOUAYACH

President of the National Human Rights Council of the Kingdom of Morocco

MR JORGE VÁZQUEZ CALDERÓN

General Manager of Andalucía Global

Biography

General Manager of Andalucía Global since 19 March 2024, until then he held the position of delegate.
territorial department of Tourism, Culture and Sport of the Junta de Andalucía in the province of Cádiz.

Born in this city in 1986, he is a technical architect by profession and is currently finishing his degree in
Industrial Organisation and Building Engineer. He has held various positions since he was appointed coordinator of the Institutional Relations Area of the President of the Junta de Andalucía in 2019.

It should be noted that he had already worked in the General Secretariat for External Action, European Union and Cooperation, the department in which the Directorate General for Global Andalusia is framed, since in 2021 he was appointed Area Director of this Secretariat.

MME. OUMAMA AOUAD LAHRECH

Former Moroccan Ambassador to Peru and Panama

MRS TSVIA WALDEN

Peres Centre for Peace

M. TARIK OTTMANI

President of the Essaouira-Mogador Association

MR JOSÉ MARÍA BELLIDO ROCHE

Mayor of Cordoba

M. SIDI SIDI ABBAH

Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco in Seville

MS. MARIFRAN CARAZO

Mayoress of Granada

M. MOUNIR EL BOUYOUSSFI

Director of the Agency for the Development of Northern Morocco

MR FRANCISCO DE LA TORRE PRADOS

Mayor of Malaga

M. MOHAMMED MBARKI

President of the Oriental Agency of the Kingdom of Morocco

MR PEDRO MERCADO PACHECO

Rector of the University of Granada

M. RACHID BENMOKHTAR BENABDALLAH

Former Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco

Biography

Born in 1942 in Marrakech, he is a Moroccan aeronautical engineer, professor and politician.
A graduate of the Institut Supérieur d'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Toulouse) and the Institut International de Développement Entrepreneurial (Lausanne), he began his career at IBM France in 1967.

In 1973, together with other engineers, he founded the first Moroccan IT consulting company. He was appointed Minister of Education on 27 February 1995 during the government of Abdellatif Filali.

He then became president of Al Akhawayn University. In 2006, King Mohammed VI appointed him president of the National Observatory for Human Development and in October 2013 he was appointed Minister of
National Education and Vocational Training in the government of Abdel-Ilah Benkiran.

MR RICARDO DÍEZ-HOCHLEITNER RODRÍGUEZ

Former Spanish Ambassador to Morocco

MR SOUFIANE HAMAINI

Entrepreneur

List of Standing Committee

No Scientific Committee (Art. 33) or Honorary Committee (Art. 34) has been set up.

Andalusia

Presidency
Deputy Minister for the Presidency Tomás Burgos

Jorge Vázquez (Andalucía Global)
Enric Millo (Secretary General for External Action)
Vacancy

Morocco

Aziza Bennani
Rachid Benmokthar
Fouad Yazourgh