Rabat – Yasmine Benamour, previously president of LCI Education Africa, announced on Monday joining Moroccan pharmaceutical group Pharma 5 as a General Secretary.
“From one apron to another, from one family business to another, from one beautiful story to another, from education to health,” said Benamour on Linkedin, expressing her happiness and excitement to begin a new journey with Pharma 5.
Pharma 5 was founded in 1985 by Doctor Abdallah Lahlou-Filali, whom Benamour described as a “visionary and good-hearted man.”
The company is currently run by his two daughters Mia and Yasmine Lahlou-Filali, “two incredible women with whom I grew up and who have made this institution a flagship of the Moroccan and African pharmaceutical industry,” Benamour stressed.
She highlighted Pharma 5 as an “African leader” in developing and manufacturing generic drugs, as well as a “pioneer in the pharmacy sector.” The company distributes products from renowned brands, including Mustela, Nuxe, Resultime, and Forte Pharma, she noted.
Excited to join “an institution with very strong values,” Benamour shared figures that reflect Pharma 5’s success. With more than $150 million (MAD 1.5 billion) in sales, the company produces more than one billion units of medicine per year, she said.
In addition, the company has 15 “state-of-the-art” production units and is the first 4.0 pharmaceutical facility in the continent, Pharma 5’s new General Secretary said.
For her, the company represents a “real pride for Morocco,” as much as her joining the company represents a “real pride for women power.”
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Benamour holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from Paris Dauphine University. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked as a research assistant at the Center of Geopolitics, Energy, and Raw Materials in France.
She then worked at BMCE Bank between 2001 and 2008 as head of the Strategic Marketing Department and later as a Senior Adviser to the General Manager. In addition, she held the position of General Manager at Moroccan private institution of higher education HEM from 2008 and 2023.
She is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and the Moroccan Club of Women Directors (CFA Maroc).
