Driss Achbal is laureate of the UNESCO Chair at Mohamed 5 University in Rabat, Morocco. He is specialist in natural resource management, environmental protection and sustainable development and doctoral researcher at USMS University in Beni Mellal. He works for the intergration of UNESCO Geoparks concept as President of the M'Goun Geopark Association since 2019. Since then, great efforts have been made to ensure the emergence of the M'Goun Geopark as an essential vector of territorial development. He is president of the African UNESCO Global Geoparks Network of between 2020 and 2023 and active member of the Executive Board of the Global Geoparks Network since 2020.

He was the 1st person in charge of organizing the 10th UNESCO International Geoparks Conference in Marrakech 2023.

He is member of the Moroccan National Commission for Education, Science and Culture.