Omar Alaoui

Managing Partner of ESL for the Middle East and North Africa region, Omar Alaoui has a degree in international relations from Queen Mary, University of London.

He has served as Chief of Staff to the President of the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (Mr Salaheddine Mezouar). Omar Alaoui has also served as Special Advisor to the Presidency of COP 22, to the Moroccan-European Union Joint Parliamentary Committee, a joint body of the European Parliament and the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco, and to the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN).

He has served on the Africa COVID 19 Response Fund public-private task force under the aegis of the African Union. He is also an alumnus of the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), the US State Department and the UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED). He is currently head of the MENA division of ESL and Managing Partner of the ESL Morocco and ESL Dubai offices.