Mohamed AIT KADI

President of the General Council of Agricultural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery, Rural Development and Forestry, Morocco

Pr. Mohamed AIT KADI is presently President of the General Council of Agricultural Development. This Council is a high-level policy Think Tank of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Forestry in Morocco. He was also Secretary General of the Ministry and Director General of the Irrigation Department. He chairs the Scientific Committee of the Adaptation of African Agriculture Initiative (AAA). He is a resident member of Academy Hassan II of Science and Technology. He is also member of the Academy of Agriculture of France as well as member of Oslo’s International Academy of Water and member of the International Advisory Council of the World Bioeconomy Summit. He has been a member of several boards including the Board of the Central Bank of Morocco, the CGIAR Consortium Board, the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Board of Trustees and the Board of Advisors of the World Agricultural Forum. AIT KADI was chair of the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership. He was Governor and founding member of the World Water Council and President of the organizing committee of the first World Water Forum held in Marrakech in 1997. He is honorary vice-president of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). He has served in many high-level international assignments. He has completed his academic education and earned his engineering and doctorate degrees of “Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II”, Rabat, Morocco, “Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et Forêts”, Paris, France, Utah State University, USA. He is author of numerous publications in the fields of irrigation, water management, agriculture and rural development.