Mr. Mostafa Terrab holds a M.S. (1982) and a Ph.D. in Operations Research (1990) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. He also received an engineering diploma from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France (1979).

Mr. Terrab held positions with Bechtel Civil and Minerals Inc. (1983/85) in San Fransisco, California, as an analyst in transportation systems, responsible for planning studies concerning the project to build the Damman international airport (Saudi Arabia) and a member of the team in charge of economic studies connected with the fixed link project across the Strait of Gibraltar. From September 1986 to August 1989, he was an assistant professor in MIT and, from September 1989 to July 1993, a consultant with the Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1988, he received the Frederick C. Hennie III Award for his outstanding contribution to the teaching programme of the MIT Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. From 1990 to 1992, he was an assistant professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in the Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

In 1992, Mr. Terrab was appointed Chargé de Mission in the Royal Cabinet. In 1995, he took up the position of Secretary General of the Executive Secretariat of the Middle East/North Africa Economic Summit. From April 1996 to July 1999, he was a member of the ’Think Tank’ set up by the late king H.M. Hassan II, and, on February 9, 1998, he was appointed Director General of the National Telecommunication Regulatory Agency (ANRT), before leading the World Bank’s Information for Development (infoDev) program and taking up the position of Lead Regulatory Specialist from April 2002 to February 2006.

Mr. Mostafa Terrab was born on October 19, 1955, in Fes. He is married and has three children.