Board of Advisors
Younes EL BAKIRDI
Younes El Bakirdi is WL Advisory’s senior advisor on business environment reform and public-private dialogue — bringing 15 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of economic policy, institutional reform, and private sector development in Morocco.
His career spans both the national and territorial dimensions of investment climate reform. At the national level, he has collaborated directly with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the National Business Environment Committee on the design and evaluation of reforms targeting administrative simplification, procedural streamlining, and the regulatory frameworks that govern business creation and investment. At the territorial level, he has worked alongside Morocco’s Regional Investment Centres to strengthen their capacity to attract, guide, and support investors — a dimension that connects directly to WL Advisory’s work on governance and institutional architecture.
As Managing Partner of ELN Consulting, she has since translated that institutional knowledge into private advisory practice — leading organisational diagnostic missions, designing performance monitoring systems with KPIs and management dashboards, formalising internal procedures, and supporting senior leadership teams through phases of restructuring and digital transformation. Her audit and risk assessment work spans both operational and financial dimensions, with particular attention to regulatory compliance and process security.
At WL Advisory, she works within the Investment Climate & Governance Advisory practice — helping governments and public institutions strengthen the internal governance frameworks, audit systems, and performance management tools that give investors and development partners confidence in the institutional environment they are entering.
His international partnerships — with GIZ, USAID, and the ILO — give him a comparative perspective on reform design and implementation that few Moroccan consultants possess. He understands not only what reforms are needed, but how to design processes that build consensus between public institutions and the private sector, and how to translate international best practice into the Moroccan institutional reality.
Alongside his advisory work, he conducts academic research on SME governance, economic development policy, and management methodology — contributing to a body of published work that informs and sharpens his practical advisory engagements at WL Advisory.
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