Rachid Hakkou

Biography

Professor Rachid Hakkou holds a post-graduate diploma (DESS) in Subsoil Resource Development from the Nancy School of Geology in France. In 1993, he obtained a doctorate in Geosciences and Raw Materials from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine. In 2001, he obtained his PhD in Waste Management and Treatment from Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Marrakech. He is a Professor of Higher Education at this institution, where he is responsible for the "Mining Environment" module in the Earth Sciences Department and the "Industrial Chemistry" module in the Chemical Sciences Department. Since 2006, he has been Associate Professor at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Tamiscamingue (Canada).
His research focuses on the reclamation of mine wastes and methods for rehabilitating mine sites. Prof. Hakkou is a member of the editorial board and Africa's representative on the international journal "Mine Water and the Environment" (Springer).
From 2009 to 2018, he is responsible for the UCA project: International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) Research Chair in "Management and stabilization of industrial and mining waste".
He has also given numerous lectures and seminars on these subjects, and published over 130 articles (h-index=29) in international journals. He has also chaired 3 international congresses on mine waste management and post-mining.
In 2016, he received the Hassan II Prize for the Environment 2015 edition, in the field of scientific and technical research for the project "Mine waste management for sustainable mining development in Morocco" and in 2020: Winner of the David Hopper Award for Leadership in Research for Development (IDRC, Canada).