Nadia Mannaoui has a master’s degree in financial engineering, a ‘BAC+4’ degree in finances, and extensive experience in economic development, youth employment promotion and economic empowerment of women. She has 25 years of work experience, 11 of which in international cooperation projects in Morocco with the Belgian, British, German, Spanish, Italian and American cooperation agencies as well as with organizations of the United Nations. She has managed projects focused primarily on youth, women, and economic development, with a special emphasis on convergence and regionalization of public policies regarding employment and economic development. She undertook several international cooperation missions in Northern and Western Africa and in the Middle East.
With regards to children’s rights, Nadia has worked as a subsistence resources specialist in the project “Parcours Prometteurs” in the Marrakech Safi region, in collaboration with the Ministry of Work, Education and National Assistance, and financed by the international Department for Work: the project consisted of a formal educational part, an informal part for adolescents from 15 to 17 years old, and a part about strengthening the inspection of dangerous workplaces as well as children’s rights.