Chairman and CEO of “ Al Sharif Phosphate Group ”, Kingdom of Morocco.

He was appointed General Manager of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates, currently known as the Cherifien des Phosphates Group, in 2006, then Chairman and General Manager of the Group in 2008.

He has 30 years of practical experience, having served as President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, President of the International Fertilizer Association, and was the first African official to assume the presidency of this association. Prior to that, he held the position of Director General of the National Regulatory Agency and Secretary General of the Executive Secretariat of the Middle East and North Africa Economic Summit.

He was an expert at the World Bank in Washington between 2002 and 2006, a consultant at the Draper Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York between 1990 and 1992, and an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1986 and 1989. Before that, he worked at the Royal Court at the behest of King Hassan II.

Turab began his career in 1983 as a transportation systems analyst at Bechtel Civil and Minerals Corporation in the United States.

The French magazine "Jeune Afrique" chose him among the 50 most influential figures in the African continent in 2018, and in 2019, "Morocco Hebdo" magazine chose him as the Person of the Year.

He holds a PhD in Operational Research, a Master’s in Engineering from MIT, and an Engineering Degree from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.