Nezha Chekrouni | |
Office: | Ambassador of Morocco to Canada |
Term Start: | 21 January 2009 |
Predecessor: | Mohamed Tangi |
Office1: | Delegate-Minister for the Moroccans Living Abroad |
Term Start1: | 7 November 2002 |
Term End1: | 8 October 2007 |
Predecessor1: | Lahcen Gaboune |
Successor1: | Mohammed Ameur |
Office2: | Delegate-Minister for Women Conditions, Family and Children Protection |
Term Start2: | 6 September 2000 |
Term End2: | 7 November 2002 |
Predecessor2: | none – position created |
Successor2: | Yasmina Baddou (as Secretary of State for Family) |
Office3: | Secretary of State for the Handicapped |
Term Start3: | 14 March 1998 |
Term End3: | 6 September 2000 |
Predecessor3: | none |
Successor3: | none – position created |
Party: | USFP |
Birth Date: | 1955 |
Birth Place: | Meknes, Morocco |
Occupation: | Politician |
Nouzha Chekrouni (Arabic: نزهة الشقروني ; born 1955, Meknes) is a Senior Fellow in Advanced Leadership at Harvard University who holds a Doctorate degree in linguistics from Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She was a politician of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party of Morocco and a Delegate-Minister for the Moroccans Living Abroad in the cabinet of Driss Jettou (2002 - 2007), Delegate-Minister for Women Conditions, Family and Children Protection and Secretary of State for the Handicapped in the cabinet of Abderrahman el-Yousfi (1998 - 2002). Since January 2009 she is Ambassador of Morocco to Canada.[1] [2] [3] [4] Dr. Chekrouni was professor of linguistics in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the university of Meknes.[1]