Nezha Chekrouni

Nezha Chekrouni
Ambassador of Morocco to Canada
Assumed office
21 January 2009
Preceded byMohamed Tangi
Delegate-Minister for the Moroccans Living Abroad
In office
7 November 2002 – 8 October 2007
Preceded byLahcen Gaboune
Succeeded byMohammed Ameur
Delegate-Minister for Women Conditions, Family and Children Protection
In office
6 September 2000 – 7 November 2002
Preceded bynone – position created
Succeeded byYasmina Baddou
(as Secretary of State for Family)
Secretary of State for the Handicapped
In office
14 March 1998 – 6 September 2000
Preceded bynone
Succeeded bynone – position created
Personal details
Born1955 (age 70–71)
PartyUSFP
OccupationPolitician
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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. Dr. Chekrouni was professor of linguistics in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the university of Meknes.