Yassine Mansouri
Moroccan dignitary
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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]
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 | April 2, 1962[1] |
| Education | Royal College |
| Alma mater | Mohammed V University |
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]
Early life and education
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]
Career
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]
Personal life
Decorations
Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania (2023)[14]
