Nezha Larhrissi is the President and Co-Founder of eSTEM Morocco, a nationally recognised non-profit organisation dedicated to closing digital and gender gaps in education under the vision ‘A Youth Today, a Leader Tomorrow’. To date, her programmes have reached more than 13 400 girls and young people directly and over 38 000 indirectly, with a strategic objective to scale to 50 000 learners nationally.
Her flagship EdTech initiative, Titrit, is a digital mentoring and learning platform designed for girls, youth and mentors, combining STEM education, self-leadership tools and project-based learning. She also serves as a member of the World Bank Civil Society Advisory Group for Morocco. She often volunteers her time as mentor in community networks such as We4She, Mentor’Elles and Women in Tech.
Over a 27-year international career, she visited more than 40 countries and held senior leadership positions in multinational corporations and government, including Senior Advisor to the Moroccan Minister of the Environment within the COP21 and COP22 Paris Climate Agreement teams, Maghreb General Director at Signify, Director of Africa Public and Government Affairs at Philips Lighting, and Director of Strategic Marketing for the Middle East and Africa at Nokia Siemens Networks.
She holds an Engineering Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (INPT) and is a Certified Trainer in Generative and Agentic AI. Nezha is a 2013 TechWomen US Exchange alumna and a 2022 HP Digital Equity Accelerator alumna. She contributed to ‘Advanced Cellular Network Planning and Optimization: 2G/2.5G/3G…Evolution to 4G’, a technology book published by John Wiley & Sons UK. She is also a certified Life coach with multiple certificates from positive psychology schools.
Through the HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship, Nezha hopes to deepen her understanding of evidence-based EdTech policy and translate global research into practical national implementation frameworks. She looks forward to engaging with Cambridge experts and a peer network of senior education leaders to strengthen her approach to governance, scaling and digital equity while contributing to long-term education transformation across the MENA region.
Nezha, a mother of two, is passionate about rally racing and mountain hiking.