Younes Benjelloun

03 February 2010

A key figure in Morocco’s economic elite

Younes Benjelloun

Company: Casablanca Financial Group (CFG)
Position: President and executive administrator

Biography: Younes Benjelloun is president of CFG, a Moroccan investment bank modelled on banks in the US and Britain.

He was previously head of CFG’s capital markets division. He also sits on the advisory board of the Education for Employment Foundation that seeks to reduce youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa.

CFG is part of the Benjelloun family business empire, which includes telecoms and insurance companies.

CFG has units specialising in mergers and acquisitions, stockbroking, fund-raising through fixed interest products, corporate finance, project finance, private banking and investment management. The group also meets the needs of smaller or privately owned firms, notably through investment in growing small and medium-sized enterprises through taking temporary minority shareholdings.

Contact: (+212) 522 25 22 25
Company website: www.cfgmorocco.com/

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