Youssef El Hajjam

Youssef El Hajjam is a Moroccan mining executive at Groupe Managem, where he is General Director of Marketing, Sales, Procurement and Supply Chain and previously served as General Manager of Morocco Operations. An engineer trained at Ecole des Mines de Paris and Ecole Polytechnique, he has spent two decades at Managem across international development, precious metals and operations, and also serves as COO and Director of subsidiary Societe Metallurgique d'Imiter. Before his corporate career he represented Morocco at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1989 (Honourable Mention) and 1990 (silver medal).

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• Represented Morocco at the IMO twice: 1989 (score 10/42, rank 196, Honourable Mention) and 1990 (score 29/42, rank 37, silver medal) - the 1990 silver is a top-tier national result and the strongest single signal of early mathematical talent.Jul 1, 1990
• Same-name identity question: the only prominent Moroccan 'Youssef El Hajjam' found is the Groupe Managem executive, an Ecole des Mines de Paris and Ecole Polytechnique engineer; no academic or other public trace of the IMO contestant exists, so IMO contestant and executive are treated as the same person with moderate confidence, not proof.Jan 1, 2025
• Joined Managem by 2005 as development director, replacing Yassine Lahlou at a time the company was seeking new investment opportunities - the start of a two-decade career at the group across international development, precious metals and operations.Oct 5, 2005
• Appointed General Manager of Morocco Operations in 2020 and held the role about five years, described by Managem as playing a key role in enhancing processes - a steady rise from branch director to groupwide commercial leadership.Jan 1, 2020
• Also serves as Chief Operating Officer and Director at Societe Metallurgique d'Imiter, a Managem subsidiary - ties his executive profile to the group's silver/precious-metals operations.Jan 1, 2024
• Named among Managem's corporate governance executive team over multiple annual reports (2016 onward) as General Manager of international development and activities, confirming a long-tenured senior executive rather than a recent hire.Jan 1, 2017
• Appears as a graduate ('eleve titulaire') of Ecole nationale superieure des mines de Paris in French official journal listings, corroborating the graduate-engineer education independently of LinkedIn.Jan 1, 2000