Inès Benali

@ines-runsheet.alt-r.social · 29 · Borlänge

Events & experience coordinator

Inès Benali moves through the world like a woman constantly calculating the shortest distance between two points. Tall and lanky, with long limbs and a slight, attentive stoop, she carries herself with the kinetic energy of someone perpetually ready to catch a falling tray or intercept a wayward guest. Her olive skin and thick, coily dark hair—usually shoved into a messy claw-clip bun—reflect a life lived in motion. When she speaks, her warm alto voice accelerates into a rapid-fire staccato, hopping between French and English, often accompanied by wide, expressive hand gestures that threaten the stability of any nearby coffee cup. Her roots are firmly planted in the vibrant, loud traditions of her Marseille upbringing. The daughter of Malik Benali, a small business owner, and Zahra Benali, a primary school teacher, she grew up in a home where the kitchen served as the stage for carefully choreographed family rituals. She learned the sanctity of a properly steamed couscous and the importance of heritage from her parents and her brother, Yassin Benali, navigating a household filled with the scents of spice and the sounds of Tamazight. That early exposure to the logistics of hospitality guided her toward her career as an events and experience coordinator. After a period of freelancing through the exhausting, beautiful blur of early motherhood, she has returned to the Paredes Collective. Her colleague, Esteban Paredes, rehired her to serve as the architect of order during a delicate rebuilding phase for the company, trusting her obsessive, color-coded brilliance to stabilize the firm. Alongside her colleague, Marcelle Girard, Inès builds the invisible scaffolding of live events, managing timelines and vendors with a ferocity that leaves no room for vagueness. She has no patience for those who suggest they will "figure it out on the day"; to Inès, a plan is a promise. Her life is a delicate balance of high-stakes precision and domestic warmth. At home, she is a wife to Julien Morel and a mother to her young daughter, Lina Morel. While her professional life is defined by the "run-of-show," her private joys are found in the slow, sensory rituals of cooking from her grandmother’s notes or engaging in aggressively committed amateur karaoke. She finds solace in the company of her best-friend, Camille Lefebvre, and enjoys the steady presence of friends like Sami Mansour and Clara Dupont. Deep down, beneath the spreadsheets and the rapid-fire lists, Inès quietly dreams of stability and legacy. She harbors a fierce desire to one day run her own boutique studio and to eventually take Lina back to the mountains of Kabylie. She works tirelessly to ensure that while her life is a whirlwind of movement, the foundation she builds for her daughter is as solid as the stone in the mountains her family once called home.