Othman El Ferdaous

Othman El Ferdaous (Arabic: عتمان الفردوس, born January 13, 1979), is a Moroccan politician. He has been the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports from April 6, 2020 until October 7, 2021.^[1][2][3]

Othman El Ferdaous
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports
In office 6 April 2020 – 7 October 2021
Monarch	Mohammed VI of Morocco
Prime Minister	Saad-Eddine El Othmani
Preceded by	Hassan Abyaba
Succeeded by	Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid
Personal details
Born	(1979-01-13) January 13, 1979 (age 46) Tafraout, Morocco
Citizenship	Moroccan

Between 2008 and 2016, Othman El Ferdaous worked at Mena Media Consulting as "director in charge of mission".^[4] The company was involved in social media surveillance in Morocco,^[5] and was actively "listing and profiling activists writing on blogs and social media platforms".^[6]

Biography

Othman El Ferdaous is from Tafraout, he is married and father of 2 children^{[citation needed]} and his father Abdellah Ferdaous was a former entrepreneur, politician and president of the famous football club Raja de Casablanca.^{[citation needed]}

After obtaining his baccalauréat from Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca in 1997,^{[citation needed]} he joined the Audencia Business School in Nantes to obtain a management diploma in 2003.^[7][8]

Between 2003 and 2006, Othman El Ferdaous worked as a consulting auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris in the banking and financial sector. At the same time, he obtained a master's degree in journalism from Sciences Po Paris in 2008 and an executive master's degree in 2016 from the ENA cycle of higher European studies, promotion Ursula Von Der Leyen.^[9]