Under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic ROME 01 > 03 DECEMBER 2016 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS Salah Eddin ABDALLA Ibrahim Abdul-Kareem Hamza Al-Eshaiker AL-JAAFARI Director, Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (AJCS), Qatar Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq Nourhan ABDEL AZIZ Khalid bin Ibrahim AL-JINDAN Research Fellow, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Vice Minister for Political and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia Selim ABDEL BAKI President, Syndicate of Accounting Experts, Lebanon Yoram ALLON Content Curator, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Touhami ABDOULI United States of America Director General, Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Safat, Kuwait Fathi AL-MAJBURI Jamal ABDULLAH Deputy Prime Minister, Libya Academic Visitor, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Faris AL-MAZROUEI Assistant Foreign Minister for Security and Military Affairs, Falah Abdulhasan ABDULSADA United Arab Emirates Head, Political Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraq Khaled AL-ROWAIHI Executive Director, Bahrain Center for Strategic Studies Ahmed ABOUL-GHEIT and International Energy (DERASAT), Bahrain Secretary-General, Arab League, Egypt Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim AL-THANI Hassan ABOUYOUB Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar Ambassador H.M. the King Mohammed VI to Italy, Morocco Vincenzo AMENDOLA Abdalla ABSI Undersecretary of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs CEO, Zoomaal (Crowdfunding Platform for Arab Innovators), and International Cooperation, Italy Lebanon Shahira AMIN Adnane ADDIOUI Award Winning Indipendent Journalist, Egypt President, Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Morocco Haizam AMIRAH-FERNÁNDEZ Senior Analyst, Mediterranean & Arab World, Rami ADWAN Real Instituto Elcano, Spain Head of Cabinet of the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lebanon Fuad AMLEH Assistant to Minister for Planning, Ministry of Energy Samir AITA and Mineral Resources, Ramallah - Palestine President, Circle of Arab Economists, France Youssef AMRANI Petrit AHMETI Senior Officer The Royal Cabinet, Morocco Vice President, MEDREG Oksana ANTONENKO Dlawer ALA’ ALDEEN Senior Political Counsellor, EBRD, United Kingdom President, Middle East Research Institute (MERI), Iraq Alain AOUN Sayyid Badr bin Hamad AL-BUSAIDI Acting Vice-Chair Defense & Interior Committee, Parliament, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oman Lebanon Azzam bin Mohammed ALDAKHIL Albert AOUN Managing Director, Saudi Research and Marketing Group, Chairman, International Fairs and Promotion (IFP), Lebanon Saudi Arabia Canan ATILGAN Abdulkarim AL-DEKHAYEL Director, Regional Program South Mediterranean, Professor and Director General, Prince Saud Al Faisal Institute Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany for Diplomatic Studies, Saudi Arabia Ibrahim AWAD Emiliano ALESSANDRI Director, Center of Migration and Refugee Studies, Senior External Co-operation Officer, OSCE The American University in Cairo, Egypt Fouad AL-GHANIM José Alberto AZEREDO LOPES Chairman, Fouad Al Ghanim and Sons Group, Kuwait Minister of National Defense, Portugal Abdul Aziz AL-GHURAIR Alberto BABAN Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mashreq Bank, Vice President, Confindustria, Italy United Arab Emirates Rosa BALFOUR Mohammed AL-HADID Acting Director, Europe Program, German Marshall Fund, President, Jordan National Red Crescent Society, Jordan United States of America Jawad AL-HERBAWI Marco BARONI Secretary General, HCC, Palestine Senior Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency (IEA) CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS Katinka BARYSCH Miguel Arias CANETE Director, Political Relations, Allianz Group, Germany Commissioner, Commission for Climate Action and Energy, UpM, European Union Yavuz BAYDAR Columnist P24, Platform for Independent Media, Turkey Francesco CAPPE’ Chair Steering Committee, Robert Kennedy Foundation Ameur BCHIR CEO, Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas (STEG), Teresa CAVERO Tunisia Consultant, Oxfam International & Ucodep Campaign Office, Spain Elisabetta BELLONI Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Hela CHEIKHROUHOU Cooperation, Italy Minister of Energy, Mining and Renewable Energy, Tunisia Enrique Mora BENAVENTE Emmanuel COHEN-HADRIA Secretary General, Aspen Institute, Spain Head, Euro-Mediterranean Policies Department, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), Spain Hafida BENCHEHID Senator, Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament, Algeria Alfredo CONTE Head of Division of the Strategic Planning, Mariem BEN HASSINE European External Action Service, Belgium Deputy Head, Middle East and North Africa Section, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, NATO Jonathan COOK Senior Policy Planner, Policy Unity, Boutheina BEN YAGHLANE Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), United Kingdom General Director, Caisse des Dépots Group, Tunisia Annamaria CORAZZA BILDT Myriam BEN YOUSSEF Member, European Parliament Head, Europe Arab Business Leaders (ABL), Tunisia Beatrice COVASSI Benedetta BERTI Head, European Commission Representation, Italy Senior Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Israel Hongjian CUI Director, Department of European Studies, Mike BEZOS China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), China President, Bezos Foundation; Promoter of the Stevens Initiative, United States of America Munqith DAGHER Founder and CEO, Independent Institute for Administration Carl BILDT and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS), Iraq Chair, Global Commission on Internet Governance, Sweden Ahmed Mahmoud DAHAN Former Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Vincenzo BOCCIA Director of the Mauritanian Institute for Strategic Studies, President, Confidustria, Italy Mauritania Emma BONINO Marta DASSÙ Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Senior Director, European Affairs, The Aspen Institute; Italy Editor in Chief, Aspenia, Italy Ouided BOUCHAMAOUI Massimo DE ANDREIS Chairwoman, Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Director General, Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno (SRM), Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA); Nobel Peace Prize 2015, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy Tunisia José M. DE AREILZA CARVAJAL Hamid BOUKRIF Secretary General, Aspen Institute, Spain Director for Perspective, Planning and Political Programme, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria Raphael DEBBANE Chairman and CEO, Debbané Frères, Lebanon Jihen BOUTIBA MRAD Secretary General, BUSINESSMED, Tunisia Koert DEBEUF Visiting Rearch Fellow, Oxford University, United Kingdom Joerg BREMER Italian Correspondent, FAZ, Germany Maria DEMERTZIS Research Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium Herve BRUSINI Directeur de la Strategie Numérique, France Tv, France Staffan DE MISTURA Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations Andrea CABRINI Managing Editor, CNBC, Italy Ben DE PEAR Channel 4 News, United Kingdom Cansu CAMLIBEL Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Hurriyet, Turkey Claudio DESCALZI CEO, Eni Spa, Italy CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS Mamadou DIALLO BHATIA Mircea Dan GEOANA Minister of Defense, Mauritania Co-Chair, Aspen Institute, Romania Antoine DIB Ellie GERANMAYEH President, Financial Institution Association (AFIL), Lebanon Policy Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Program, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), United Kingdom Thanos DOKOS Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Elliot GERSON Policy, Greece Executive Vice President, Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute, Ahmed DRISS United States of America President, Centre for Mediterranean and International Studies (CEMI), Tunisia Gennaro GERVASIO Lecturer, Department of Political Sciences, Alexander DYNKIN British University of Cairo, Egypt Director, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy Hilmi GHANDOUR of Sciences (IMEMO), Russia CEO, Kettaneh Construction International, Lebanon Issandr EL AMRANI Ibrahim Ahmed GHANDOUR Project Director, North Africa Crisis Group, Belgium Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sudan Mouhamadou EL HADY BA Hafez GHANEM Scientific Committee Innovations Politiques & Démocratiques Vice President MENA, World Bank, United States of America (IPODE), Senegal Rashid GHANNOUCHI Anas EL GOMATI President, Ennahda Party, Tunisia Director General, Sadeq Institute, Libya Mohamed Jalel GHEDIRA Adel ELLITHY Member, Tunisian Parliament Committee for the Administration Executive Assistant to MD Saudi Research & Marketing Group, of the Armed Forces, Tunisia Saudi Arabia Gioia GHEZZI Talal EL-MAKDESSI President, Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy Journalist, Tele Liban, Lebanon Slim GHORBEL Thomas EYMOND-LARITAZ Executive Board Member, Tunisian Union of Industry, APCO Worldwide, United Kingdom Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), Tunisia Dina FAKOUSSA Mario GIRO Head of Program, Middle East and North Africa Program, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Germany and International Cooperation, Italy Samar FATANY Ferdinando GIUGLIANO Writer and Columnist, Saudi Gazette, Saudia Arabia Economics Commentator, La Repubblica, Italy Francis FUKUYAMA Thomas GOMART Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies-Stanford Director, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), France University, United States America Xiaosheng GONG Tine GADE Ambassador, Special Envoy to the Middle East, China Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway Nedžad GRABUS Head of the