Wydiane Djaidi is a Moroccan lawyer, born and raised in Casablanca. She is specialized in international public law and international business law and has several years of experience working for the United Nations (UN). She is admitted to the Casablanca Bar Association and holds a Master of Laws in International Business Law at the University of Brussels (ULB) and a Master of Laws in International Public Law and Transnational Crimes at the University for Peace (university mandated by the United Nations).
Wydiane has worked for the United Nations for several years in Turin (Italy) and in the UN headquarters in Vienna (Austria), where she worked on international law and transnational criminal matters. While working at the UN headquarters in Vienna, her work mainly focused on working with governments and other relevant stakeholders for the implementation of the UN Convention against transnational organized crimes (Palermo Convention). Wydiane also supported the elaboration of several UN reports that are currently publicly available, including the UN toolkit to support member states in the elaboration of high impact strategies against organized crime.
Wydiane recently moved back to the Kingdom of Morocco and is currently practicing as a lawyer as part of Dilar Lakhelifi Law firm, a law firm with over 30 years of presence in Casablanca. Her work in the firm focuses, among others, on business law and international law matters.
Wydiane is fluent in Arabic, French and English and has also a basic knowledge of Italian and Spanish.