Career
Between 2007 and 2012, she was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi. Latifa Akherbach started her career in 1981 as a journalist in the daily "First Rate (at Lloyd's) Maghrib" and "Louisiana Vie Eco" magazine. Sometime in the late 1990s she taught at the "Higher Institute of Journalism of Rabat" (French: Institut Supérieur de Journalisme de Rabat) and in 2003, she was appointed by King Mohammed VI as the head the "Higher Institute of Information and Communication" (French: l"Insititut Supérieur de l"Information et de la Communication ISIC), then in 2007 as co-Chief Executive Officer of the SNRT (société nationale de radio-diffusion), heading the Moroccan state radio.
Akherbach co-authored two books in French about women rights.
"Women and Media" (Femmes et médias) and "Women and Politics" (Femmes et politique).
