Hakima El Haite

Hakima El Haite
Hakima El Haite
حكيمة الحيطي
	Hakima El Haite in May 2016
Born	13 May 1963 (age 61); Fez, Morocco
Nationality	Moroccan
Alma mater	Moulay Ismail University
Occupation(s)	Climate scientist, politician
Political party	Popular Movement

Hakima El Haite (born 13 May 1963) is a Moroccan climate scientist, entrepreneur and politician.

In 1994 she founded EauGlobe, the first environmental engineering firm in the MENA region. She served as Minister Delegate in Charge of the Environment for the Kingdom of Morocco from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, she was elected Vice President of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). She was appointed Special Envoy for Climate Change of the Kingdom of Morocco from 2015 to 2017 and the High Level Climate Champion of the United Nations International Climate Conference (COP22) from 2016 – 2017.

She is the current president of the Liberal International since December 2018, the first non-European in this post.^[1]

^ "Global Liberal family elects Hakima El Haite – LI's first president from Africa". Liberal International. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[1] "Global Liberal family elects Hakima El Haite – LI's first president from Africa". Liberal International. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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