Leïla Mezian Benjelloun

Leïla Mezian Benjelloun (1938 – 13 July 2024) was a Moroccan physician and businesswoman. She was best known as the wife of billionaire Othman Benjelloun.

Early life
Mezian was the daughter of Moroccan marshal Mohamed Meziane. She was born in Valencia and grew up in Spain. She was a graduate of the University of Madrid's medical school and earned a degree in Ophthalmology from the University of Barcelona's medical school.

Career
Benjelloun was president of the BMCE Bank Foundation for Education and Environment.

In October 2017, she laid the foundation stone of a museum being built at the junction of Moulay Youssef Boulevard and Roudani Boulevard in Casablanca. The building is 26 meters high and was budgeted to cost 79 million MAD. The building was completed in 2018.

She was president of the Alaouite Organization for the Protection of the Blind and the Moroccan Red Cross, vice president of the Association of Medical Doctors in Morocco, and president of the Benjelloun-Mezian Foundation.

On 2 November 2022, Leila won the Mediterranean Awards awarded by the Foundation for the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean.

Personal life and death
In 1960, she married Othman Benjelloun. Together they had two children; Dounia, a film producer, and Kamal, an anthropologist and environmentalist. Leila Mezian Benjelloun died on 13 July 2024.