Meet Khadija El Kamouny - Our Ambassador in Morocco
Khadija El Kamouny (born March 1, 1989) is a Moroccan engineer and PhD at the MAScIR Foundation, reporting to the University Mohammed 6 Polytechnic UM6P. In December 2019, she was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI as one of the 35 members of the Special Commission of the Development Model. Her research and innovation activities have received several national and international awards.
Khadija El Kamouny grew up in the rural commune of Kridid in the province of Sidi Bennour. She joined the elementary school after the age of 9 years, which forced her to succeed in this step of studies in three years instead of six. She opted for electrical science and technology as a secondary school program and obtained her baccalaureate in electrical engineering. She then attends two years of preparatory classes. In 2013, she received her engineering degree in electrical engineering. She then prepared for a doctorate in engineering sciences at the Mohammadia School of Engineering (EMI). In 2018, she decided to start a master’s degree in data science at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Khadija El Kamouny is an engineer and project manager at the MAScIR Foundation reporting to UM6P. Where she leads a team of engineers and researchers working on projects around green development activities such as clean mobility, energy and air quality.
She has been one of the inventors of dozens of patents, designs and brands registered on the national and international scale and has participated in about twenty scientific events about energy in Morocco and elsewhere.
She was a member of the organizing committee of the 7th International Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (IRSEC) 2019.
As a speaker, Khadija represented Morocco at the International Conference on Energy in 2020 held in Cape Town.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Khadija El Kamouny has developed several solutions to facilitate the management of the crisis, she created E-Tanaqol, a mobile application to facilitate the circulation of legal documents. She also invented, with the support of her team, the device and brand called MateCanary, a system for monitoring air quality and measuring CO2 in a closed room, the device allows to trigger an alarm if the air quality becomes poor which prevents the propagation of COVID-19 in closed environments. The present monitor is internationally commercialized. These inventions have given the creation, in 2021, of two start-ups, one in Morocco and the other in London.
Her research and innovation activities have received several national and international honors. She has won the first prize at the International Conference on Renewable Energy, CIER14, in Monastir, Tunisia.
She also directed the project “Developing a Solar Kit to Electrify Isolated Sites” for people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was a finalist in the IPA’s “Innovation Prize for Africa” competition.
In 2016, she received an achievement award from the Zakoura Foundation. In the same year, she won the Nestlé Success prize, the Geneva WIPO scholars award at COP22, the Personality of the Year award given by APEJ and the gold medal, at iCAN2016, an international invention and innovation competition held in Toronto, Canada.
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