Mostafa Terrab and Two Decades at the Helm of OCP
Mostafa Terrab was appointed Director General of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates in February 2006. In June 2008 he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OCP Group, the Casablanca-based phosphate and fertiliser company.
| Role | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
|---|---|
| Company | OCP Group |
| Headquarters | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Industry | Mining and Materials |
| In role since | 2006 |
| Education | Engineering degree, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1979); MS (1982) and PhD in Operations Research (1990), Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Company website | ocpgroup.ma |
From MIT and the Royal Cabinet to the World Bank and OCP
Terrab trained as an engineer in Paris and then completed graduate studies at MIT. His career moved between engineering, teaching, public service and international development before he joined OCP.
- 1983 to 1985: Transportation systems analyst, Bechtel Civil and Minerals, San Francisco
- 1988 to 1990: Fellow, Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1990 to 1992: Assistant professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
- 1992 to 1998: Advisor in the Royal Cabinet in Rabat and Secretary General of the Middle East/North Africa Economic Summit
- 1998: Director General of Morocco’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANRT)
- 2002: Lead Regulatory Specialist at the World Bank, also heading its infoDev program
- 2006: Director General of OCP
- 2008 to present: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, OCP Group
OCP Group’s Phosphate and Fertiliser Business
OCP mines phosphate rock and turns it into phosphoric acid and fertilisers, with industrial sites in Morocco and sales across Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. When Terrab arrived in 2006, the state-owned company mainly sold raw rock. He shifted it toward producing finished fertilisers in Morocco, and annual fertiliser output rose from 2 to 3 million tonnes to about 12 million tonnes within a few years.
For 2025, OCP Group reported revenue of 113.94 billion dirhams, up 17.5 percent on 2024, with EBITDA of 43.19 billion dirhams. The company employs about 17,600 people.
Africa Focus and Green Investment at OCP
Under Terrab, OCP has worked to supply fertilisers suited to local soils and crops in around 40 African countries. In 2024 it signed a partnership with ENGIE covering renewable power, energy storage, green hydrogen, green ammonia and desalination.
OCP Group Sources Behind This Mostafa Terrab Profile
- Mostafa Terrab, International Fertilizer Association
- Mostafa Terrab biography, World Policy Conference
- OCP Group Sees Revenue Rise to 113.94bn MAD in 2025, 7News Morocco
- Mostafa Terrab et l’histoire de la transformation de l’OCP, Hespress
- Mostafa Terrab, Gulf Business
- OCP Group company directory, Fertilizer Daily
