Nour Maxwell

Faculty, Leadership Studies

Nour Maxwell, M.A., is a policy and sustainability strategy expert with over 18 years of experience. Nour has spent over a decade in public service, acting as a senior diplomat, Counselor of Foreign Affairs for the Government of Morocco’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she first specialized in international human rights protection. She represented the Kingdom of Morocco at the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and Conference on International Private Law in The Hague. Nour also served as the Deputy Director for Sustainability and Head of Public Affairs/Public Relations for OCP S.A, the world’s leading phosphate producer. More recently, Nour served as a communications and engagement coordinator for the County of Sonoma in 2019. From 2020 to 2021, she was the regional program manager for the California Complete Count Committee. Nour is a Fulbright scholar with a B.A. in international relations/law from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique in Rabat, Morocco. She has a M.A. in international policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, and completed her executive education at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is fluent in Arabic and French.