Hakima Fassi Fihri is the director of International Relations and Partnerships at Université Internationale de Rabat and the director of the President's Office. She is also a member of the University's Managing Board. Hakima has 15 years of experience in the practice of Business Law and Corporate Law, as she worked previously in international law firms based in Morocco and in France. She currently teaches a course on Family Law at Université Internationale de Rabat's School of Law, while her research interests extend to topics including inter-religious marriages, gender equality, women's rights, feminism, inheritance rules, and other topics relating to women's conditions in Morocco, and the Arab/ Islamic world. She is a law school graduate from Rabat University School of Law, and holds a Master's Degree in European Law from the University Pierre Mendès- France Grenoble II.