Smail Alhilali is currently the chief of the Circular Economy and Chemicals Management Division within the directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria. He is leading the implementation of UNIDO’s programmes on circular economy, resource efficiency and chemicals management contributing to achieve inclusive and sustainable industrial development.

He has served in different leading positions in UNIDO as the chief of the Responsible Materials and Chemicals Management Division (from 2022 to 2023), the chief of the Industrial Pollution Mitigation Division (from 2020 to 2022) and the chief of the Emerging Compliance Regimes division (from 2018 to 2020).

From 2007 to 2018, he has been responsible of the implementation of resource efficient and cleaner production related projects in developing countries and emerging economies. Moreover, he has been the technical lead for the development of UNIDO global Eco-industrial Park Programme and the international framework for eco-industrial parks jointly established by World Bank Group, GiZ and UNIDO.

Before joining UNIDO, he was the director of Morocco National Cleaner Production Centre (CMPP, 2003-2007) and served in different positions within the National Centre for Nuclear Energy, Sciences and Technologies in Morocco (CNESTEN, 1994-2003).

Smail Alhilali holds a master degree on mechanical engineering (Morocco, Rabat, EMI, 1993) and a master degree on nuclear safety engineering (France, Saclay, INSTN, 1994).