Mrs. Benzakour is currently Scientific and Innovation Director at Reminex Research & Valorization Center (CRV), a subsidiary of MANAGEM Group. Mrs. Benzakour is leading since 2000, the research, development and innovation activities at Reminex for Managem operations and other reputed clients in Morocco and West Africa. Mrs. Benzakour holds a state engineering degree since 1992, from the National School of Mineral Industry in Rabat. With more than 32 years of experience at Managem in Research, Development and innovation in the mining sector. In addition to the R&D&I activities, Mrs. Benzakour held several responsibilities in operations such as the hydrometallurgical activities of Cobalt cathode production and its by-products in from 2007 to 2011 and the direction of the Sustainable Development activities of the Base Metals and Cobalt branch until 2017.