Pr. Zidane Lamdaghri is currently a Professor of Management Sciences at the Higher School of Technology of Kenitra – UIT. Between 2024 and 2025, he was the managing director of the <Code212> coding center and Responsible of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ibn Tofail University of Kenitra. On the academic level, he teaches courses related to organizational governance, strategy, international trade, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Furthermore, he participated in several international research and capacity building projects; namely SKIM (Strengthening Knowledge Management for Greater Development Effectiveness in the Near East, North Africa, Central Asia and Europe), coordinated by ICARDA and funded by IFAD, also DIREMED project (intercultural dialogue) and AGRIENGAGE (entrepreneurship and community engagement), as well as Munie project (the entrepreneurial University), coordinated by University of Koblenz and funded by DAAD. He is also a member of the core team that launched together with UM6P the Agri-Food Tech incubator as well as the Agrichallenge annual Hackathon within the AGRIENGAGE project. He was the IAV mandate for the IP management in coordination with the OMPIC (Moroccan IP office) and he was in charge of the coordination of the Executive MBA training together with ESCA Business School (2020-2022).
Pr. Lamdaghri holds a Ph.D in economics and management at the National School of Commerce and Management of Kenitra. He also holds a master degree in Management Sciences in the institute of business administration IAE Toulon (France), and a master double-degree in Innovation and Youth Entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector in the CIHEAM of Bari and University of Bari (Italy).
Pr. Lamdaghri previously worked as a cooperation and partnership responsible at the institute of agronomy and veterninary science in Rabat, where he was responsible of negotiating agreements with the national and international partners. He also was responsible of the research and mobility programs especially Erasmus+.
Moreover, Pr. Lamdaghri worked as responsible of production planning in the automotive sector at STELLANTIS (ex-PSA), and he worked as a project officer in the banking sector in BMCE Capital.
