Professor Mohammed Belhocine was elected as Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of the African Union in October 2021 and began his tenure in January 2022. Before this, he held various positions at the Faculty of Medicine and the Ministry of Health in Algeria before joining the international civil service in 1997.
He was the Director of the Division of Non-Communicable Diseases at the WHO Regional Office for Africa (in Harare) and the WHO Representative in Nigeria and Tanzania. He was a UN System Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Tunisia from 2009 to 2013 before he returned to duty at the WHO from June 2015 to February 2016.