Prof. Khalid Temsamani

Dr. Khalid R. Temsamani is Professor of Analytical chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of Tétouan, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Morocco since 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) in 1988. In June 2005, he was appointed by the Moroccan Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research as National Coordinator in Materials Science and Representative of Morocco to the US National Science Foundation. Khalid Temsamani founded and is the President of the Moroccan Biosafety Association (www.mobsa.org) since October 2009. In October 2010, Temsamani was appointed by the Moroccan Ministry of Environment as Director of the Regional Observatory for Environment and Sustainable Development. He is Senior Expert on Climate and Water at the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona and the GWP Med in Athens. He hold an IFBA Professional Certification in Biorisk management and Biosecurity. He is the Co-Chair of the Biorisk Management MENA Network.