Mr. Ahmed Akhchichine
Ex-Minister of National Education, Higher Education, Staff Training and Scientific Research (2007-2011) . He graduated of the Institute of Journalism of Rabat (ISJ) in 1976, and of the French Press Institute (IFP) in 1979. He obtained a Ph.D. in information and communication in 1982. Since 1982, he has been a teacher-researcher and then communications consultant to several international organizations. He served as an international resident expert in the region of West Africa with several UN agencies. He was the Director General of “Léger&Léger", Canadian market research firm, in Morocco from (1997 to 2001), before being appointed, in 2003, as the Director General of the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA). He is the Vice-President of the Moroccan Association for Communication Research (AMRC). He is a founding member of the National Board of the Moroccan Human Rights Organization, member of the National Board of National Observatory for the Rights of the Child and a member of the National Council of Higher Education.