Omar Balafrej
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Unified Socialist Party (Since 2015)
Omar Balafrej | |
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عمر بلافريج | |
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| Born | 26 October 1973 Rabat, Morocco |
| Party | Socialist Union of Popular Forces (until 2010) Unified Socialist Party (Since 2015) |
Omar Balafrej (Arabic: عمر بلافريج; born 26 October 1973) is a Moroccan politician, He served as a member of the Moroccan parliament from 2016 to 2021, representing his hometown Rabat, and was one of the two members of Unified Socialist Party at the time. Since 2014, he is also a board member of the African Innovation Foundation, providing strategic advice and technical support to strengthen the innovation landscape in Africa.[1]
Before being elected to the parliament, Balafrej was the CEO of MITC, a Moroccan public private partnership that manages Casablanca Technopark, and the president of the Abderrahim Bouabid Foundation (ABF) from 2009 to 2012.[2]
He announced in October 2020 that he will no longer be active in politics, choosing to focus on his entrepreneurial work and help young people in developing their projects.[3]
Omar Balafrej was born in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, in 1973. His father was a doctor, and his granduncle was Ahmed Balafrej. He has also familial relations with Mohamed El Yazghi and Abderrahim Bouabid, which made him interested in politics since his childhood.
After finalizing his high school studies at Lycée Descartes, he went to France, where he integrated the École centrale de Lyon, after two years of preparatory classes in Paris.