I completed my specialization degree in psychiatry at the Rabat Faculty of Medicine in 1992.  I was granted fellowships in Psychiatry and addiction medicine in France.  I then opted for a sub-specialization in substance use and applied-epidemiology back in 1993.  I was selected as a NIDA research fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and studied there in 1994 and 1995.  I became an Associate Professor in Psychiatry in 1997.  I contributed to the creation of the first center for drug abuse treatment in 1999.  As a full professor of Psychiatry, I took over as the Director of the University Psychiatric Hospital in Salé in 2005.  I hold the position of the Moroccan Representative at the MedNET Network of the Pompidou Group (since 2006).  I was appointed the Permanent Correspondent for Morocco at the Pompidou Group (the Council of Europe).  I co-founded the Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENHARA).  In 2011, I was nominated as the Director of the newly created National Observatory on Drugs and Addictions.  I served as expert and consultant for many organizations such as WHO, UNODC, African Union, and Council of Europe. In 2015, I was elected by the ECOSC as a member of the UN International Narcotics Control Board in Vienna for which I was re-elected for a second five-year mandate in 2020.  I chaired and participated in many committees and commissions, nationally and internationally in the filed of substance use.  I also served as the Minister of Health advisor for mental health and drug use issues in the early 2000.  I teach at the University of Rabat Faculty of Medicine.  I’m the founder of the University Diploma on Addictology at the University of Rabat. I give lectures and contribute to teaching activities in many European and African countries in the area of substance use.
