Driss Benhima

Driss Benhima () is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco.

Career

Benhima joined Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP), Moroccan state-owned phosphate world leader, as a junior field engineer in Khouribga.After the first 6 years he spent there, he became Mining Facilities Manager.He was appointed in 1990 CEO of Casablanca-based Société Marocaine d'Oxygène et d'Acétylène, Moroccan subsidiary of Air Liquide group, world leader in industrial gases. On 19 March 1994, he was appointed CEO ofOffice National de l'Electricité (ONE), Morocco's national power authority.He has notably tackled the issue of insufficient access to electricity in rural communities.The global rural electrification program's objective was to generalize access before 2010.His successor Ahmed Nakkouch pushed further the initiative: the program is due to reach its target in 2007. During his CEO mandate, he has been a member of the transition government led by Dr. Abdellatif Filali (between August 1997 and March 1998) in preparation of the Alternance, the Socialist Union of Popular Forces and socialist Abderrahmane Youssoufi coming to power.Benhima was then Minister of Transport, Energy, Tourism, Mining and Merchant Navy.From July 2001 to 26 March 2004, Mr Benhima assumed the office of Governor of the Wilaya of Great Casablanca.He was appointed...
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