Mohammed VI (born 21 August 1963) is the King of Morocco, having ascended the throne in 1999 following the death of his father, King Hassan II, as a monarch of the Alaouite (Alawi) dynasty. Early in his reign, he advanced a reformist image, most notably through changes that expanded women’s rights via the 2004 Mudawana (family code) reforms, and later through the 2011 constitutional reforms adopted amid the Arab Spring-era pressures, which formally widened the government’s powers while keeping the monarchy as the decisive center of authority. Parallel to governance reforms, his reign has been defined by large-scale, state-led modernization and a strategic foreign policy pivot. Morocco invested heavily in transformative infrastructure—such as the Tanger-Med port complex (operational since 2007) and Al Boraq, Africa’s first high-speed rail line inaugurated in 2018—projects that recast Morocco as a logistics, industrial, and tourism hub. Internationally, Mohammed VI drove a proactive African diplomacy that culminated in Morocco rejoining the African Union in 2017 after more than three decades outside the bloc.