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MED2017 LIST of PARTICIPANTS.Indd Under the Patronage ROME 30.11 > 02.12.2017 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS as of 27.11.2017 Ehab ABDULGADER Hasna AL-HAJRI Director and COO, PetroGas, Libya Head of the Delegation of the Sultanate, Oman Jamal ABDULLAH Emiliano ALESSANDRI Senior Researcher, TRT WORLD, Turkey Senior External Co-operation Officer, OSCE, Austria Ahmed ABOUL GHEIT Angelino ALFANO Secretary General, Arab League Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy Adnane ADDIOUI Emad AL-GARASH President, Moroccan Center for Innovation Executive Director, Yemen Organization and Social Entrepreneurship, Morocco for Defending Rights & Democratic Freedoms, Yemen Shri M. J. AKBAR Minister of State for External Affairs, India Nouf ALHIMIARY Feminist Artist and Web Designer, Saudi Arabia M Levent AKICI International Coordinator, World Ethnosport Confederation Ibrahim AL-JAAFARI Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq Ziad A. AKL Director of the Program for the Mediterranean Ahmed ALJARMAN and North Africa Studies, Arab and Regional Affairs Unit, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, UAE Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Egypt Adel AL-JUBEIR Shatha AL ABOSI Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia MP, Adviser for the Speaker of Iraqi Council, Iraq Houda ALLAL Abdul Rahman AL AGELI Director General, Mediterranean Observatory for Energy Fellow, Atlantic Council; War Studies Department, (OME) King’s College, United Kingdom Joao Paulo ALMEIDA Waleed AL BAHAR Director General, National Olympic Committee of Portugal Regional Manager for the South East Asia and the Pacific, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Saad Ahmed AL-MOHANNADI President, Ashghal, Qatar Ghosson AL KHALED Deputy CEO, Acico Industries Company, Kuwait Adel Ali ALSHDDY Knowledge Exchange Program Member, Hend AL KHALIFA Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia President, International Federation for Bahraini Business & Professional Women Tariq AL-OLAIMY Co Founder, 3BL Associates, Bahrain Maher Hasan AL MAHROUQ Director General, Jordan Chamber of Industry, Jordan Yousef bin Ahmad AL-OTHAIMEEN Secretary General, Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation Talal AL RAHBI (OIC) Deputy Secretary General, Oman Supreme Council of Planning Ahmed AL-JARMAN Minister of State for International Cooperation, Dlawer ALA’ALDEEN United Arab Emirates President, Middle Eastern Research Institute (MERI), Iraq Mohammed AL-THANI Ranj ALAALDIN Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha, Qatar Vincenzo AMENDOLA Saeda AL-ATRASH Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director, Mehwar Center, Palestine and International Cooperation, Italy CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS as of 27.11.2017 Shahira AMIN Diana BATTAGGIA Indipendent Journalist, Al Monitor Egypt Pulse, Egypt Director, Rome Office, UNIDO Haizam AMIRAH FERNÁNDEZ Elisabetta BELLONI Senior Analyst, Mediterranean and Arab World, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Elcano Royal Institute, Spain and International Cooperation, Italy Yousef AMRANI Lina BEN MHENNI Advisor of the King, Morocco Activist, Blogger and Assistant Lecturer, Tunis University, Tunisia Alain AOUN Vice Chair, Defence and Interior Committee, Imen BEN MOHAMED Lebanese Parliament, Lebanon Member of Parliament, Tunisia Michel AOUN Saida BENHABYLES President, Lebanon President, Algerian Red Crescent Giancarlo ARAGONA Mehdi BENOMAR Senior Advisor, Italian Institute for International Specialist, OCP Policy Center, Morocco Political Studies (ISPI), Italy Miriem BENSALAH CHAQROUN M. Kacem AROUS President, CGEM Deputy Director General, Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas (STEG), Tunisia Franceline BERETTI Journalist and Editor, Italy Abas ASLANI General Director, Tasnim News Iran Benedetta BERTI Senior Policy Advisor, Policy Planning Unit, Amjad ATALLAH Office of the Secretary General, NATO Former Executive Vice President for Content, Al Jazeera America, USA Ornella BERTOROTTA Member, Committee for Foreign Affairs and Emigration, Canan ATILGAN Senate of the Republic, Italy Director, Regional Program South Mediterranean, Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung, Tunisia Andrea BETTINI Journalist, Rai, Italy Fabrice BALANCHE Researcher, Hoover Institution - Stanford University, Alberto S. BICHI USA Executive Director, European Platform for Sport Innovation, Belgium Antonella BALDINO CBO, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Italy Andrea BIGNAMI Head, Economic Service Department, Sky Tg24, Italy Makram BARAKAT General Manager, Makram Barakat Est, Lebanon Faith BIROL Executive Director, International Energy Agency, Lea BAROUDI France Co-Founder and Director, March, Lebanon Anila BITRI LANI Daniela BASILE Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to Italy Export Support, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Italy Wajih BIZRI Gebral BASSIL President, International Chamber of Commerce, Lebanon Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lebanon Morten BØÅS Abdelhak BASSOU Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center, Morocco Affairs - NUPI, Norway CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS as of 27.11.2017 Nicoletta BOMBARDIERE Virginie COLLOMBIER Diplomatic Advisor to the Minister of Defence, Research Coordinator, Middle East Directions Program, Italy European University Institute (EUI) Gianni BONINI Beatrice COVASSI CIHEAM Bari, Italy Head of Representation of the European Commission in Italy Delphine BORIONE Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France Sara CRISTALDI to the FAO, the WFP and the IFAD, France Senior Advisor, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy Marina BROGI Co-Chair Italy, WomenCorporateDirectors Maria CUFFARO Journalist, Rai, Italy Alexandra BUGAILISKIS Ambassador of Canada to the Italian Republic Noel CURRAN Director General, EBU, Ireland Christine BUHAGIAR Director for Europe, AFP, France Emanuela D’ALESSANDRO Diplomatic Advisor to the Italian President of the Republic Alistair BURT Minister of State for the Middle East, Foreign Munqith DAGHER and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom Chairman, Al Mustakilla Research Group, Jordan Andrea CABRINI Galip DALAY Director, Class CNBC, Italy Research Director, Al Sharq Forum, Turkey Francesca CADEDDU Matt DANN Researcher, Foundation for Religious Studies, Italy Secretary General, Bruegel, Belgium Jocelyne CESARI BOTMAN Marta DASSU’ Professor, University of Birmingham President, WE - Women Empower the World; and Georgetown University, United Kingdom Senior Director of European Affairs, The Aspen Institute, Italy Khalid CHAOUKI Member of Parliament, Italy Massimo DE ANDREIS Director General, SRM (Intesa San Paolo Group), Italy Siqing CHEN Chairman, Bank of China Vichi DE MARCHI Director, WE - Women Empower the World, Italy Samia CHERIF General Manager, Huffington Post Maghreb Nicola DE SANTIS Head Middle East, NATO Raffaele CHIULLI President of ARISF, Association of International Maria DEMERTZIS Sports Federations recognized by the IOC, Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium Member of Save the Dream High-Level Panel Claudio DESCALZI May CHIDIAC CEO, Eni, Italy Journalist and Founder, May Chidiac Foundation, Lebanon Alexandra MAGNÓLIA Reserach Fellow, Portuguese Institute of International Emmanuel COHEN-HADRIA Relations (IPRI), Portugal Head of Euro-Mediterranean Policies Department, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed); Thanos DOKOS Coordinator, the EuroMeSCo Secretariat, Spain Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy ( ELIAMEP), Greece CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS as of 27.11.2017 Ahmed DRISS Alix ETOURNAUD President, Center of Mediterranean and International Founder and Deputy Editor Huffpost Maghreb; Studies (CEMI), Tunisia Co-founder of La Tribune Afrique, Tunisia Antony DWORKIN Matthieu ETOURNEAU Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations Managing Director, French Business Center of Tehran (MEDEF), Iran Alexander DYNKIN President, Primakov National Research Institute Alaa EZZ of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Secretary General, Confederation of Egyptian European Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Business Associations (CEEBA), Egypt Issandr EL AMRANI Georges FAHMI North Africa Project Director, International Crisis Group, Research Fellow, Middle East Directions Programme, Belgium European University Institute (EUI) Karim EL AYNAOUI Intissar FAKIR Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco Editor in Chief, Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA Issam EL BASHIR Chairman Islamic Fiqh Association; Dina FAKOUSSA Former Minister for Religious Affairs, Sudan Head, Middle East and North Africa Program, German Council on Foreign Relations - DGAP, Germany M. Ahmed EL BOUARI Central Director of Irrigation, Ministry of Agriculture, Thembisa FAKUDE Fisheries, Rural Development and Forest and Water Researcher; Head of the English Unit, Al Jazeera Center Resources, Morocco for Studies - AJCS, Qatar Anas EL GOMATI Maria FANTAPPIE Director, Sadeq Institute, Libya Analyst, International Crisis Group Mario EL KHOURY Estela FARIAS Head of Section, Financing Unit, Central Bank of Lebanon Professor, INEFC Tarek EL MOLLA Roxane FARMANFARMAIAN Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Cirmena, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Egypt Wissam H. FATTOUH, Mona EL-AGIZY Secretary General, Union of Arab Banks, Lebanon Expert, Arab Water Council, Egypt Peter FEDOROV Hala ELHEFNAWY Deputy Director General, Director of Foreign Affairs, Head of Societal Transformations Unit, Future for Advanced All-Russia State Television, Russia Research and Studies
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