I bring universities and the world’s students together.

I work in international education. I bring students from across Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey to universities in Istanbul, and I build the partnerships, with schools, agencies, and institutions, that keep them coming. Half of the work is relationships and half is on the ground: the fairs, the school and high-school visits, the consultancy desk, the meeting that only happens in person. I do this now for Medipol University, and before it for Fenerbahçe, opening new countries and the networks that carry them.

I am Moroccan, I live in Istanbul, and I work in five languages, three of them native. Those languages are why a conversation with a family in Casablanca, an agency in Tunis, or a school in Nairobi goes differently when I am in the room. In this field trust is most of the work, and whether the person across the table believes you understand where they sit. That is the part I am best at. I trained first in purchasing, through internships with Renault and OCP, which taught me to study a place before I trust a word of it. Outside the work, I write poetry. It is probably why I would rather listen first.