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Ali Zerouali has been Masen’s Cooperation and International Business Development Director since September 2015. (Masen stands for Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy and is in charge of developing Renewable Energy projects and particularly Renewable Energy power plants in Morocco.) Ali Zerouali is responsible for designing and implementing an international projection strategy for Masen, with a focus on three priority areas: collaborating with Europe, as part of South-North cooperation for trading electricity from renewable sources between Morocco and the European electricity market ; collaborating with Africa, as part of South-South cooperation ; and for the MENA region and the rest of the world, sharing expertise and Masen’s technical assistance, developing greenfield and brownfield projects, and developing an industrial cooperation. Ali Zerouali also supports the needs of internal entities, particularly by raising international funds. In his early roles at BNP Paribas, Accenture and UTC, Ali Zerouali has gained extensive experience of managing internationally oriented corporate restructuring and business development projects. Upon returning to Morocco, Ali Zerouali founded Next Management, a company that specializes in restructuring and transformation projects, and then took over the general management of MCS, a subsidiary of UTC.
Ali Zerouali graduated in engineering with a degree in organizational management from Ecole des Mines de Paris & HEC Paris. An advocate of African optimism, convinced that energy is fundamental to sustainable development and growth, Ali Zerouali strives to promote a green revolution on a regional and continental scale in his work at Masen.
