Malika Haimeur (born 7 September 1956) is a French engineer and chemist and winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for Women & Business in 2009.

Malika Haimeur was born in Le Rove, in the Bouches du Rhône region of France.

She continued her studies at the Institute of Petrochemistry and Industrial Organic Synthesis, now the École Centrale de Marseille, where she received her engineering degree in 1984.

In 1984, she began her career working in a chemical process development laboratory of the Rhône-Poulenc group in Décines.

Haimeur was responsible for nearly a thousand people, and managed, among other things, purchasing, shipping and security of the site for the manufacturing the active ingredients for drugs such as Clopidogrel, which is sold as Plavix.