Karim Mansouri

Karim Mansouri is OCP North America Director for Canada, Corporate Affairs & partnerships. Within his mission, he is notably supporting Canadian agriculture development and food security. He joined OCP Group in January 2012 where he worked on North America and EU topics in the Office of the Chairman & CEO of OCP Group, in Morocco. He then led the Africa team in the Office of the Chairman & CEO.

Prior to joining OCP in 2012, Mr. El Mansouri was a career foreign service professional having served in the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs both in Morocco and abroad. At the MFA, Mr. El Mansouri was Senior Political Adviser to the Delegate Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012), and member of the General Directorate working on strategic and national security issues. As a diplomat, Mr. El Mansouri was chief of the political section at the Moroccan Embassy in Paris, France (2010), and Political Advisor at the Moroccan Embassy in Washington, D.C. (2006-2010).

Mr. El Mansouri is a graduate of the Royal Moroccan Academy of Diplomacy. He has a BA in Political science from Montreal University and MA in Law and International Relations from Laval University. He has also completed an MBA, Executive Leadership Program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.