Young Professionals Network

Prior to this role, he served as the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. In this capacity, he developed policy for senior officials, created and implemented democracy, human rights policies and programs. He also worked in the Secretary Kerry’s Office of Global Partnerships, where he led the engagement with private sector and civil society to develop innovative public-private partnership to promote economic growth in Middle East and North Africa.

His previous professional experiences include UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the International Labour Organization (ILO). He also collaborates with numerous startup support programs as a jury member, mentor, and trainer, and lectures on entrepreneurship at ESSEC Business School.

After 4 years of experience in strategy consulting and digital transformation, she learnt coding in such an intensive way that it was an empowering experience which taught her how to translate any idea into a not-so-capital intensive business and prepared her to be an entrepreneur with a developer mindset.  She set up Le Wagon, the #1 coding bootcamp worldwide, in Casablanca, the first African location of the network. Prior to founding Le Wagon Morocco and the social initiative Douar Tech, Hanae worked as influence consultant at Altermind and digital strategy consultant at Eleven in Paris, participating in setting up one of the first Parisian startup studios. She’s also taken part in the board of Led By HER, a social incubator that helps women entrepreneurs that have suffered violence. Hanae holds a Bachelor in Sciences and Social Sciences from Sciences Po Paris with a year-program at Wharton School of Business, a Bachelor in Science and Technology from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, a Bachelor of Law from Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), a Master in Management from HEC Paris and a Master in Public Administration from Sciences Po Paris. 

She worked internationally in the UAE and Turkey, starting therapeutic programs, before moving to Morocco to address mental health issues. Her work centers around the psychological immunization of youth and building psychological resilience. Her work on various youth issues is on track to impact 7 Million young people in the next 3 years. She is a Stanford AMENDS Fellow and has presented her work in UK Parliament, MISK Global Forum, TEDxYouth, BBC radio, Women in Leadership Magazine, Morocco World News and Hespress.