Ghizlane Benjelloun is an associate professor of child psychiatry and head of department at the Ibn Rochd University Hospital Centre in Casablanca, Morocco. She is a founding member and president of the Moroccan Society of Child Psychiatry and Associated Professions (SMPPA) and organizer of a university degree on baby psychology and psychopathology.

She is also a teacher at the Faculty of Medicine and provides specialized consultation in the accompaniment of children and adolescents who are victims of psychological and sexual physical violence. Her department actively collaborates with child protection units. For example, it participates in programmes with judges and judicial bodies to improve listening to child victims of abuse. She has facilitated several conferences and seminars on violence, including training for psychologists and social workers who assist children of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

Ghizlane Benjelloun is currently vice-president of the Observatoire National des Droits de l’Enfant in Morocco and sits on the board of AEPEA (Association Européenne de Psychopathologie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent) and the UNION des Femmes du Maroc. She is also a member of the founding committee of the Lalla Meryem Chair.

As an author, she has published Être parent : de la grossesse à 3 ans (Being a parent: from pregnancy to age 3), published by La Croisée des Chemins.

In 2024, she was named Personality of the Year in Morocco by the United Nations.