Rkia Derham
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Rkia Derham | |
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| Secretary of State for Foreign Trade | |
| In office 2017–2019 | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) |
Rkia Derham (born 1978) is a Moroccan politician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade between April 2017 and October 2019.
Derham was born in 1978 in Las Palmas, Spain, although her birth was not registered until 1979 in Laayoune, Western Sahara.[1] She is a member of a Sahrawi family. Her father, Mohammed Fadhul al-Durham, fought in the Moroccan Army of Liberation against the Spanish, and her uncle Si Ahmed al-Durham was one of the first to participate in elections in the southern provinces after independence.[1]
Derham attended high school in Rabat and graduated from the International Institute of Graduate Studies in Morocco.[1][2] She has studied for a master's degree in Business Management in Great Britain.[2][3]
