| Latifa Akherbach | |
| Office: | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start: | 19 September 2007 |
| Term End: | 3 January 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Taieb Fassi Fihri (as Delegate-Minister for Foreign Affairs) |
| Successor: | Youssef Amrani (as Delegate-Minister) |
| Party: | Independent |
| Birth Place: | Tetouan, Morocco |
| Occupation: | Politician, journalist |
Latifa Akherbach (َ, ar|لطيفة أخرباش - born 1960 in Tetouan) is a Moroccan politician and journalist. Between 2007 and 2012, she was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi.[1] [2] [3]
Latifa Akherbach started her career in 1981 as a journalist in the daily "Al Maghrib" and "La Vie Eco" magazine. Sometime in the late 1990s she taught at the "Higher Institute of Journalism of Rabat" (fr|Institut Supérieur de Journalisme de Rabat) and in 2003, she was appointed by King Mohammed VI as the head the "Higher Institute of Information and Communication" (fr|l'Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication ISIC), then in 2007 as co-CEO of the SNRT (French: société nationale de radio-diffusion), heading the Moroccan state radio.[3]
Akherbach co-authored two books in French about women rights; "Women and Media" (Femmes et médias) and "Women and Politics" (Femmes et politique).[2]