Kenza Margaoui is one of the 50 inspiring women who are moving the lines, selected in the special issue of our Challenge magazine “Les chances du Maroc”, published on March 8 in tribute to Moroccan women.
Kenza Margaoui is the General Counsel of the OCP Group, which she joined as Senior Counsel in 2012, before taking up the position of Corporate and Financing Vice-President from 2015. She is admitted to the bars of Paris and New York, where she began her career in international arbitration in the Singapore office of the Shearman & Sterling law firm, before joining the M&A/PrivateEquity department of the Paris offices of Simmons & Simmons and then Reed Smith.
She holds a DEA in English and North American business law and a Magistère in business law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as an LLM from the University of Texas at Austin.
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She served as President of the Association of Business Lawyers of Morocco in Paris in 2011-2012 after having been in charge of the joint AJAM-Clifford Chance program for the granting of merit scholarships to law students in France. .
Upon her arrival in Morocco, she contributed to the creation of the Cercle Marocain des Directions Juridiques, which aims to develop a networking network and which organizes training and leads a mentoring program in partnership with Moroccan universities. She is also part of the Women in Law Circle as part of the Lean In MoroccanChapter association, whose objective is to create a benevolent circle of networking and experience sharing.
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Kenza Mergaoui believes that “We are fortunate to live today in a context in which a lot of initiatives have emerged and are emerging, although the road is still long. More and more studies at the global level conducted by experts and international organizations clearly establish a strong correlation between better representation of women in governance bodies and positive economic and business effects. It is established that diversity leads to increased innovation and creativity and contributes to better attractiveness and retention of talent”. As for his commitment within the OCP group, it has meaning and inductions. “We believe that diversity in general and gender diversity in particular, is a pillar of our strategy and contributes daily to meeting the challenges we face. OCP is one of the first Moroccan and African companies to be part of this approach in a sustainable way and has no doubt that many other companies will follow”.
The woman within her institution is at the heart of a thoughtful and effective strategy. She knows all the importance of this and she knows how exemplary it is when it comes to a giant of reference. His wish is to see other companies take inspiration from it, to establish themselves as a simple modality and not remain a model to follow.
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