Najat Mokhtar

Najat Mokhtar was appointed Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications on 1 January 2019. Prior to her appointment, she was Director of the Division for Asia and the Pacific in the Department of Technical Cooperation.

From 2012 to 2014, Ms. Mokhtar was the Section Head of the Nutrition and Health-related Environmental Studies, Human Health Division. From 2010 to 2012, she was the Director of Science and Technology at the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology in Morocco, where she coordinated the national strategy on Education and Research. She worked as University Professor and Research Director at the University Ibn Tofail in Morocco for more than 20 years. Ms. Mokhtar was a Technical Officer at the Agency from 2001 to 2007.

Ms. Mokhtar holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Endocrinology from Laval University in Canada and has a doctorate in food sciences from the University of Dijon in France. She has done her postdoctoral training as a Fulbright fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the United States of America.