Badr Ikken

Président exécutif de Gi3 / Managing partner de Gi2 / Président du Conseil d'Affaires Maroc-Allemagne - CGEM / Membre du Comité Directeur de la Chambre de Commerce Allemande AHK Maroc

Morocco

About

I received an engineer degree in mechanical engineering and industrial production & solar systems from the Berlin Institute of Technology. I wrote a thesis on production technologies of hard materials.   During 8 years, I worked in the Department for Machining Technology of the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF) in Berlin, first as a research associate, then as a project manager. In the Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (Fraunhofer IPK), I served as project manager for several industrial projects involving companies such as Siemens Power Generation, INA Schaeffler, Saint-Gobain Diamantwerkzeuge, SGL Carbon,.. Between 2008 and 2010, I served as CTO of the multinational company Lunos-Raumluftsysteme. During this period, I developed and launched two new production lines in Germany. I also expanded the production in China.   In September 2010, I joined the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) as Director of Integrated Development, in charge of Industrial Integration and R&D. I co-founded the Moroccan-based National Institute IRESEN (Institute of Research in Solar Energy and New Energies) and I am the Director General since July 2011. I established 2016 the largest Solar Research platform in Africa, the Green Energy Park and I am currently building a network of applied research centers (Green Energy Park, Green & Smart Building Park, Green H2A,..), inspired from the model of the Fraunhofer society.   I am Vice-President of the Green Economy commission of the Moroccan Confederation of Enterprises (CGEM) and represent Morocco in different international commissions.

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