As part of the continuing excellent relationships between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG), Morocco, and the Caisse de Dépôts et de Développement (CDD), Islamic Republic of Mauritania , have started and developed, since 2011, regular contacts and technical exchanges in Nouakchott and in Rabat.

Rabat, September 15th 2017 – The CDG organized from September 12th to 15th a seminary to present and promote its economic model before financial and economic actors of the African Continent. This initiative is a first ever one and aims at showing off the special economic model of a « deposit fund » as a tool of raising, managing and transforming savings for the Kingdom Development.

Mr. Abdellatif Zaghnoun – the CDG Director General, has chaired today in Rabat, at the CDG head office, the installation ceremony of Ms. Latifa ECHIHABI, CDG new Secretary General.

Appointed on June 29th 2017 as CDG Secretary General, Ms. ECHIHABI is an EMI graduate. She occupied several executive positions within the Ministry of Industry, Investment, Commerce and Digital Economy, and has managed MAROC PME (ex- ANPME) for more than 16 years, before becoming the Secretary General of the aforementioned Ministry, since October 2013.

CDG Group is setting up a new 2022 Strategic Plan based on the development of its methods of intervention.

The Group will now intervene more often as ‘expert’, ‘co-financer’ and ‘investor’ rather than as ‘operator’, hitherto used by the Group where CDG Group controls all the links in the value chain of a project (design, land acquisition, layout, development, marketing, management, etc.).