Leïla Mezian Benjelloun is a Moroccan physician and businesswoman and the wife of billionaire

Othman Benjelloun Othman Benjelloun (Tamazight: ⵄⴻⵜⵎⴰⵏ ⴱⴰⵏⵊⴰⵍⵍⵓⵏ; ar, عثمان بن جلون; born 1931) is a Moroccan banker billionaire businessman. He is known for co-founding of BMCE Bank and Bank of Africa, and serves as its ...

Early life

She is the daughter of Moroccan general Mohamed Meziane. She was born in Valencia and grew up in Spain. She is a graduate of the University of Madrid's medical school.

Career

She is president of the BMCE Bank Foundation for Education and Environment. In October 2017, she laid the foundation stone of a museum being built at the junction of Moulay Youssef Boulevard and Roudani Boulevard in

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

. The building is 26 meters high and was budgeted to cost 79 million MAD. The building was completed in 2018. She is president of the Alaouite Organization for the Protection of the Blind and the Moroccan Red Cross, vice president of the Association of Medical Doctors in Morocco, and president of the Benjelloun-Mezian Foundation. On 2 November 2022, Leila won the Mediterranean Awards Awarded by the Foundation for the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean.

Personal life

She has been married to

since 1960, and they have two children; Dounia, a film producer, and Kamal, an anthropologist and environmentalist.

References

Living people Moroccan businesspeople Moroccan women in business 21st-century Moroccan physicians People from Valencia Year of birth missing (living people) {{Morocco-bio-stub