Mr. Mounir Bensalah was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI as Secretary-General of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH). He is an engineer. He studied at the Mohammadia School of Engineering (EMI) in Rabat in 2002. At the age of 40, he has accumulated more than 17 years of professional experience in managing and structuring projects and operational units with various Moroccan and multinational companies.

Mr. Bensalah was an active member of numerous working groups, and has been engaged in advocating for human rights and freedoms, both within Morocco and on regional and international levels. In 2005, he co-chaired the EMI's Congress of the Association of Engineers.

From 2006 to 2018, he held several positions within the Moroccan Organization of Human Rights (OMDH). Mr. Bensalah was one of the leaders of the 20 February movement. In 2013, he founded the Anfass Democratic Movement Association, which he chaired until 2018.

He was a member of the Regional Human Rights Commission of Casablanca-Settat from 2011 to 2018. He has authored numerous articles and studies, including Réseaux sociaux et révolutions arabes (Social networks and Arab revolutions) in 2012 and “Railway Information Modeling RIM - The Track to Rail Modernization” in 2019.

Mr. Bensalah is married and has a daughter.