Wissal Khadrouf was born in Casablanca, Morocco. In 2009, she has a master’s degree in computer sciences from INPT, an engineering school in Morocco. She has over 8 years of experience in the IT field and works now as a program manager at Microsoft in the Airband Initiative.

Besides, Wissal is a very active citizen as she loves to volunteer to make a positive impact in her community. She has joined JCI CasaImpact (Junior Chamber International CasaImpact) in 2014 and ever since has occupied various positions and led many social projects. Today she is the Communication Vice President and a mentor to new members. She is a certified JCI trainer and has organized and facilitated many trainings tackling active citizenship, interpersonal skills as well as successful project management.
Prior to that, she was a training director in the same NGO. She also was a facilitator in Injaz Al-maghrib, another NGO aiming to inspire and prepare a generation of youth to become business leaders and promising entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
She works hard in the youth capacity building and empowerment field because she strongly believes in the power of one person and especially the power of youth, if one has enough motivation and finds the right mentoring, he can change the world.

Wissal is a fan of meditation as a peaceful practice. In 2017, Wissal dove into learning how to practice it. She went to two meditation retreats in Georgia and Thailand and learned meditation from Buddhist monks. She joined an international program for self-development through meditation and mindfulness by World Peace Initiative Foundation called Peace Revolution. She is now a Peace agent and Country coordinator and runs Casablanca Peace Club, which is is a local community of like-minded people who want to develop and empower themselves through meditation and inner peace.