Amar Drissi

Executive Vice President, OCP Group. As Vice President of Citibank, he participated in merger-acquisition and financial engineering activities in several countries. Appointed board member and CEO of Charbonnages du Maroc, he restructured the Jerada mine, then as CEO of subsidiaries and member of ONA Group’s Management Committee, turned around several major subsidiaries, including Lesieur and Centrale Laitière. He subsequently became Executive Vice President of FINCON in Geneva and Strategic Communications Group in Dubai. He holds an MBA in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University, a PhD in Management from the École polytechnique and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Paris X. He co-edited the book Dubai, the New Arab Dream with Thierry de Montbrial, published in 2006 as part of Ifri’s Travaux et Recherches series.