Yassine Mansouri | |
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ياسين المنصوري | |
Director-General of the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation | |
Assumed office February 16, 2005 | |
Appointed by | Mohammed VI of Morocco |
Preceded by | Ahmed Harchi |
Director-General of Home Affairs | |
In office March 31, 2003 – February 16, 2005 | |
Appointed by | Mohammed VI of Morocco |
Director of Maghreb Arabe Presse | |
In office November 19, 1999 – March 31, 2003 | |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Bejaâd, Morocco | April 2, 1962
Education | Royal College |
Alma mater | Mohammed V University |
Mohamed Yassine Mansouri ( Arabic: محمد ياسين المنصوري; born April 2, 1962) is a Moroccan dignitary who has served as the director of Morocco's external intelligence agency, the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation (DGED) under King Mohammed VI since February 16, 2005. [2] [3] [4]
He previously served as the director of the Moroccan state-owned press agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse in November 1999, then as Director-General of Home Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior. [2] [5] [6]
Mansouri was born in Bejaâd, near Khouribga, on April 2, 1962. He is the son of Hajj Abderrahmane Mansouri, a religious professor and scholar from Bzou who was a student of Mokhtar Soussi, Mohamed Serghini, and Moulay Ahmed Alami before moving to Bejaâd after his retirement. [7] [2] [8]
Yassine Mansouri remains attached to Bejaâd and his ancestral town of Bzou, associated with the Berber Antifa tribe, visiting the cities yearly and overseeing several charitable initiatives in the region. [2] [9]
He was a classmate of Mohammed VI at the Royal College in Rabat. [2] [10] He received a law degree and two graduate degrees in public law in 1983 from Mohammed V University. [11]
Yassine Mansouri began his career in the mid-1980s at the Ministry of Information and later the Ministry of the Interior during an internship at Driss Basri's cabinet. [2] [11] [12]
In 1999, following violent pro-independence riots in Laâyoune, King Mohammed VI ordered a report on the causes behind the riots from Mansouri and Hamidou Laânigri. [2] The report allegedly pointed out repression led by interior minister Driss Basri, who was dismissed from his functions by the King a month later after 20 years of service. [2] [13] In the aftermath of this cabinet shuffle, Mansouri was named director of Maghreb Arabe Presse and Laânigri was named head of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance. [2]
Mansouri is married and has 4 children. [2] He is described as a "tireless worker" who is "extremely reserved and discreet, even shy" and as a pious man who often did Umrah and who is "attached to his origins". [2]
Yassine Mansouri | |
---|---|
ياسين المنصوري | |
Director-General of the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation | |
Assumed office February 16, 2005 | |
Appointed by | Mohammed VI of Morocco |
Preceded by | Ahmed Harchi |
Director-General of Home Affairs | |
In office March 31, 2003 – February 16, 2005 | |
Appointed by | Mohammed VI of Morocco |
Director of Maghreb Arabe Presse | |
In office November 19, 1999 – March 31, 2003 | |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Bejaâd, Morocco | April 2, 1962
Education | Royal College |
Alma mater | Mohammed V University |
Mohamed Yassine Mansouri ( Arabic: محمد ياسين المنصوري; born April 2, 1962) is a Moroccan dignitary who has served as the director of Morocco's external intelligence agency, the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation (DGED) under King Mohammed VI since February 16, 2005. [2] [3] [4]
He previously served as the director of the Moroccan state-owned press agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse in November 1999, then as Director-General of Home Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior. [2] [5] [6]
Mansouri was born in Bejaâd, near Khouribga, on April 2, 1962. He is the son of Hajj Abderrahmane Mansouri, a religious professor and scholar from Bzou who was a student of Mokhtar Soussi, Mohamed Serghini, and Moulay Ahmed Alami before moving to Bejaâd after his retirement. [7] [2] [8]
Yassine Mansouri remains attached to Bejaâd and his ancestral town of Bzou, associated with the Berber Antifa tribe, visiting the cities yearly and overseeing several charitable initiatives in the region. [2] [9]
He was a classmate of Mohammed VI at the Royal College in Rabat. [2] [10] He received a law degree and two graduate degrees in public law in 1983 from Mohammed V University. [11]
Yassine Mansouri began his career in the mid-1980s at the Ministry of Information and later the Ministry of the Interior during an internship at Driss Basri's cabinet. [2] [11] [12]
In 1999, following violent pro-independence riots in Laâyoune, King Mohammed VI ordered a report on the causes behind the riots from Mansouri and Hamidou Laânigri. [2] The report allegedly pointed out repression led by interior minister Driss Basri, who was dismissed from his functions by the King a month later after 20 years of service. [2] [13] In the aftermath of this cabinet shuffle, Mansouri was named director of Maghreb Arabe Presse and Laânigri was named head of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance. [2]
Mansouri is married and has 4 children. [2] He is described as a "tireless worker" who is "extremely reserved and discreet, even shy" and as a pious man who often did Umrah and who is "attached to his origins". [2]