Nasser Bourita is a Moroccan diplomat serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation since 5 April 2017. He was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in 2011 and then Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in 2016. He has evolved in many key positions within the ministry, from the head of United Nations Main Organs Unit, to head of United Nations Division (2003-2006) and then director of United Nations an International Organizations (2006-2009). Mr. Bourita is an alumnus of the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Humanities of Rabat, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law in 1991.  In 1993, he earned a Certificate of Higher Studies in International Relations, followed by a master’s degree in International Public Law in 1995.