Aziz Akhannouch
Aziz Akhannouch is a Chleuh-Berber Moroccan businessman and current Minister of Agriculture since 2007.
Aziz Akhannouch is the majority owner of Akwa Group, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate founded by his father and a partner, Ahmed Wakrim, in 1932.
It has interests in petroleum, gas and chemicals through publicly-traded Afriquia Gaz and Maghreb Oxygene.
Akhannouch is Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the president of a royalist political party.
