14 Facts About Mounir Majidi

Mounir Majidi has been the personal secretary of King Mohammed VI since 2000 and president of the royal holding, SIGER, since 2002.

Mounir Majidi is the president of Maroc Culture, the organization behind the Mawazine festival, of the Fath Union Sport Rabat, of the Mohammed VI soccer academy, and of the Cheikh Zaid hospital's foundation.

The son of a civil servant, Mounir Majidi was born and grew up in a low-income area of Rabat.

Mounir Majidi earned high marks in school, and was chosen to be homeschooled in the company of Mohammed VI's late cousin Naoufel Osman, the son of Ahmed Osman and Princess Lalla Nuzha.

Mounir Majidi was a classmate of Mohammed VI's late cousin "Nawfal Osman", the son of Ahmed Osman and Princess Lalla Nuzha.

Mounir Majidi studied computer science in Strasbourg, France where he worked at Sagem and settled for some years before going to New York City where he completed an MBA at the Pace University.

In 1985, Mounir Majidi moved to Strasbourg, France, to study computer science at the Louis Pasteur University.

Mounir Majidi is involved in a number of businesses, most of them are related to his management of the King's shares at ONA and FC Com the advertising company.

Mounir Majidi was president of Rabat-based football club FUS Rabat, and the president and founder of Mohammed VI football Academy.

Mounir Majidi returned to Morocco and worked at the Banque Commerciale du Maroc, ONA and at the Caisse de depot et de gestion.

Mounir Majidi is in charge of reorganizing the management of the King's palace and the royal stewardship.

Mounir Majidi designed and deployed a new economic model for the hospital, which led to the recovery of a financial stability and autonomy.

In December 2007, Mounir Majidi is nominated as president of the Fath Union Sport of Rabat and launched a modernization program destined to become a national model for other sports teams: renovation of the infrastructures, definition of a sports politic, and valorization of the FUS brand.

In June 2012 Mounir Majidi was accused of multimillion-dollar corruption by French newspaper Le Monde and by Moroccan independent newspapers.