Rabat - Ismail Douiri, co-CEO of Attijariwafa bank, Morocco's largest Bank, has been awarded the 2015 Alumni Achievement Award during the seventeenth annual Harvard Business School Africa Business Conference that took place from February 27th-March 1st, 2015 in Boston Massachusetts.
Douiri, an MBA holder from Harvard Business School, is the first Morocco to ever claim such prestigious Prize. The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes remarkable achievements of HBS Alumni who contribute to Africa's development.
This year's edition of the HBS' Africa Business Conference was held under the theme "A More Inclusive Africa: the pursuit of progress for all." It gathered an audience of almost 1,500 attendees with the aim of connecting leaders who are impacting the African continent in different ways.
Douiri joined Attijariwafa bank in 2004 as VP of Strategy and was promoted in 2005 to Deputy General Manager. He is a director of most subsidiaries of Attijariwafa bank in North, West and Central Africa.
In 2008, he was appointed by the Board of Directors as co-CEO. He started his professional career with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland, and then joined Casablanca Finance Group, a boutique investment bank based in Morocco.
After completing his MBA, he worked for Morgan Stanley in London, for McKinsey & Co. in the North Africa Initiative, and founded a mobile internet start-up in Morocco. In 2010, he was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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