Abdelkader Aamara

Abdelkader Aamara is a Moroccan politician of the Justice and Development Party and is its Chief Treasurer. On 3 January 2012 he was nominated as the Minister for Industry, Trade and New Technologies in the cabinet of Abdelilah Benkirane. Between 2013 and 2016 he was the Minister for Energy, Mines, Water and Environment and since 5 April 2017 he has been the minister for Equipment, Transport and Water Logistics in the cabinet of El Othmani. From 2 - 20 August 2018 he also took an interim position as the Minister for Economy and Finance following the firing of Mohamed Boussaid. Since 2002 he has served as MP for Salé and is a professor at the Hassan II Institute of Agronomy in Rabat, from which he graduated in 1986.