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In June 2019, Terrab became President of the IFA (International Fertilizer Association), a global organization bringing together 480 members of the fertilizer industry in 68 countries. He is the first African executive to chair this Association, and is also a member of the Executive Board.

In late 2019, Terrab was appointed to a 35-member committee for Moroccan Development, made up of a diverse cross-section of the most respected people in Morocco. The committee will deliver a report to His Majesty King Mohammed VI on the impacts of the reform programs initiated in the Kingdom, across education, society, environment, infrastructure and the economy. The report will also deliver recommendations on best practice and future initiatives.

Terrab was appointed Chief Executive Officer of OCP in 2006, and then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the OCP Group when it became a Public Limited Company in June 2008. He is also Chairman of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

From 1998, he led the National Agency for Telecommunications Regulation (ANRT), before joining The World Bank as Lead Regulatory Specialist, where he directed the “Information for Development” (InfoDev) program for the support of entrepreneurs with strong growth in emerging economies.

In 1998, he received the Frederick C. Hennie III prize for his contribution to the MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science teaching programme. In 2012, Morocco World News named him Person of the Year for his contributions to the "most vital" sector of the Moroccan economy. He was named one of the 100 most influential Africans by New African Magazine in 2013 and one of the 50 most influential Africans worldwide by Jeune Afrique Magazine in 2014.

Returning to Morocco in 1992, Terrab was appointed Chargé de Mission to the Royal Cabinet of the late His Majesty King Hassan II before joining in 1995, as Secretary General, the Executive Secretariat of the Economic Summit for the Middle East and North Africa.

While studying for his PhD, Terrab held the position of Assistant Professor and Researcher. He was a Professor in the departments of decision sciences and engineering systems, and civil and environmental engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York from 1990 to 1992.

Mostafa Terrab graduated in engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France in 1979, and went on to complete a Masters in Engineering in 1982 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after which he pursued a PhD in and Operations Research at the same institution. His Doctorate was awarded in 1990.

Mostafa Terrab (Arabic: مصطفى الطراب ‎; Born 1955 in Fez) has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Moroccan state-owned phosphate-mining company OCP since 2006. Since 2019 Terrab has also been President of the International Fertilizer Organisation. He was an adviser to the late His Majesty King Hassan II and member of the G-14 think-tank, which counted figures such as Taieb Fassi-Fihri and Driss Jettou.