Fathallah Oualalou

Fathallah Oualalou
Fathallah Oualalou in 2010.
Minister of Economy and Finance
In office
March 1998  October 2007
MonarchsHassan II
Mohammed VI
Prime MinisterAbderrahmane Youssoufi
Driss Jettou
Abbas El Fassi
Preceded byDriss Jettou
Succeeded bySalaheddine Mezouar

Fathallah Oualalou (Arabic: فتح الله والعلو) (born 1942 in Rabat) is a Moroccan politician. He was the mayor of Rabat from 2009 to 2015. He was the Minister of Economy and Finance of Morocco between March 1998 and October 2007. He is a member of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party (USFP).

Oualalou graduated in economics from the Mohammed V University in Rabat, going on to obtain a "Diplôme d'études supérieures" (DES) in economics in Paris in 1966. In addition to his work as an assistant at the Mohammed V University, in the 1960s he became president of the Union nationale des étudiants du Maroc and head of the Confederation of Maghreb Students.