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Lamia Boutaleb is the CEO of Capital Trust, an investment banking group in Morocco with capital markets, advisory and asset management activities. 

Before the establishment of Capital Trust, Lamia had spent two years as a Special Advisor to the CEO of Office Chérifien des Phosphates.

Lamia Boutaleb started her career with the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) where she had spent 5 years before joining Mercer Management Consulting in London as a consultant. Subsequently, in the year 2000, she joined the WafaBank Group, where she was charged of managing Wafa Bourse, the group’s Brokerage firm. In 2002, she was also appointed managing director of Wafa Trust, the investment and corporate finance subsidiary of the group.
In 2006, Lamia BOUTALEB was appointed as Managing director of Attijari Invest, the Private Equity subsidiary of the group Attijariwafa Bank.  Under her management, Attijari Invest has established and structured several investment funds specializing in infrastructure, agribusiness and tourism for a total investment envelope of $ 400 million.

Mrs.Boutaleb  is a graduate from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Lausanne and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Wharton Executive Board  for Europe, Middle East and Africa.