Course Title
“A New Energy Future for Morocco: Tradition, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship"
Faculty
Professor Dirk J. Vandewalle and April M. Salas, Executive Director, Revers Center for Energy
Dates
March 10 - 20, 2020
Destination Cities
Rabat, Marrakech, Tangier, Ouarzazate, Fes (subject to change)
Course Themes
Exposure to a society with deep social and cultural traditions, including:
- The distinctive business culture and environment rooted in deep social and cultural norms
- The role the private sector and the government have played since independence
- The role has Foreign Direct Investment played
“Tradition with a future – preserving the past, and creating the future”
- See a traditional society undergoing rapid economic and socio-cultural transformation
- Emergence of a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem
- How a traditional patronage system dominated by the monarchy impacts this, and what new institutions have emerged/are required to support this transformation
Challenges a society faces in transitioning toward a clean energy economy
- The role energy plays in an economy/society like Morocco, including conventional sources of energy
- The Energy Development Plan, and the role for renewables and efficiency
- How the transformation towards cleaner energy might apply to other places in Africa or globally