8.30 | 8.45 am OPENING Elisabetta BELLONI, Secretary General, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Giampiero MASSOLO, President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies, Italy 8.45 | 9.00 am INTRODUCTORY SPEECH Joumana HADDAD, Journalist and Writer, Lebanon 9.00 | 10.15 am FIRST SESSION: WATER Angelo RICCABONI, Chair SDSN Mediterranean, Chair PRIMA Fundación, Spain Mona EL-AGIZY, Expert, Arab Water Council, Egypt M. Ahmed EL BOUARi, Central Director of Irrigation, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Forest and Water Resources, Morocco Luca Alfredo LANZALONE, President, ACEA, Italy Abdelhamid EL-ZOHEIRY, President, EMUNI, Slovenia Wissam H.FATTOUH, Secretary General, Union of Arab Banks, Lebanon Chair: Nicola LAMADDALENA, Head of Land and Water Department, CIHEAM Bari, Italy 10.15 | 11.30 amSECOND SESSION: SEA AND MARINE RESOURCES Isabella PRATESI, Director, WWF, Italy Maria Cristina RUSSO, Director of International Cooperation, DG RTD, European Commission Mouin HAMZE, Secretary General, Conseil National de la RechercheScientifique, Lebanon Giuseppe PROVENZANO, Expert, Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, Spain Tarek TAWFIQ, Director, Central Laboratory for Environmental Quality Monitoring, National Water Research Center, Egypt Malek MTIMET, Manager, VMT and Aqua Fish Companies, Tunisia Nino MEROLA, Coordinator NEMO Initiative and Representative in Albania, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation Chair: Arni MATHIESEN, Assistant Director, General Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO 11.30 | 11.45 am Q&A SESSION Questions from the audience 11.45 | 12.00 am CONCLUSIONS Luca MAESTRIPIERI, Deputy Director General, General Directorate for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy This by-invitation-only Forum will be held at the same venue of MED2017: Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi, Via Frescobaldi 5, Rome. Working languages: Italian, English, French .