Karim El Aynaoui

Karim El Aynaoui

Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South, and Executive Vice-President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences, Morocco

Karim El Aynaoui is President of the Policy Center for the New South and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He also serves as advisor to the CEO and Chairman of the OCP Group. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco, as Director of Economics and International Relations. Prior to this, he served as an economist at the World Bank. He is a board member of the OCP Foundation, a global member of the Trilateral Commission, and a member of the IFRI Strategic Advisory, the Malabo Montpellier Panel and the Scientific Council of the Moroccan Capital Market Authority. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bordeaux.