AS OF NOVEMBER day PLENARY POLICY FORUM working language working language 01 english / arabic / italian english THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22 AFTERNOON 14.15 WELCOMING REMARKS fernandes Giampiero MASSOLO, President, ISPI room KEYNOTE SPEECHES Enzo MOAVERO MILANESI, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Barham SALIH, President, Iraq With the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio MATTARELLA 15.30 PLENARY “SHARED SECURITY” THE QUEST FOR REGIONAL HEGEMONY: PREVENTING ESCALATION Chair: Giampiero MASSOLO, President, ISPI Ahmed ABOUL GHEIT, Secretary General, Arab League Sayyid Badr bin Hamad AL BUSAIDI, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oman Ayman AL SAFADI, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Jordan Kim R. HOLMES, Executive Vice President, The Heritage Foundation 17.00 PLENARY “SHARED SECURITY” DAESH/ISIS: THE DAY AFTER. COUNTERING A NEW WAVE OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM Chair: Marcello FOA, President, RAI Mohamed Ali ALHAKIM, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq Jens STOLTENBERG, Secretary General, NATO Elisabetta TRENTA, Minister of Defense, Italy 18.30 SPECIAL DIALOGUE Mohammad Javad ZARIF, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran in conversation with Thomas GOMART, Director, IFRI and Monica MAGGIONI, RAI 19.00 SPECIAL DIALOGUE Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim AL-THANI, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar in conversation with Declan WALSH, New York Times and Matthew KARNITSCHNIG, Politico Europe SOCIAL EVENT by invitation only day 02 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 MORNING 08.30 BREAKFAST POLICY FORUM sforza room YEMEN’S SPIRAL IRAN AFTER INTO CONFLICT US SANCTIONS: AND FRAGMENTATION: WHAT’S NEXT? WHAT WILL IT TAKE in collaboration with IFRI TO REVERSE IT? Chair: Dorothée SCHMID, Research Director, IFRI coordinated by ISPI Keynote speech Chair: Joost HILTERMANN, Program Director Seyed Kazem SAJJADPOUR, Iranian Deputy for the Middle East and North Africa, Minister for Foreign Affairs; President, IPIS International Crisis Group Alistair BURT, Minister of State for the Middle Farea AL MUSLIMI, Chairman East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and Co-Founder, Sanaa Center Minister of State, Department for International for Strategic Studies, and Associate Fellow, Development, UK Chatham House Suzanne DIMAGGIO, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Adam BARON, Visiting Fellow, ECFR Endowment for International Peace Antonia CALVO-PUERTA, Head, Ali FATHOLLAH-NEJAD, Visiting Fellow, Delegation to Yemen, EU Brookings Doha Center Geert CAPPELAERE, Regional Director, Elham HASSANZADEH, Founder and UNICEF Managing Director, Energy Pioneers, UK SEIZING THE FUTURE: EMPLOYING YOUTH IN THE MENA REGION in collaboration with Bruegel, DGAP and OCP Policy Center Chair: Adel HAMAIZIA, Committee Vice-Chairman, Oxford Gulf & Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum, UK Maria DEMERTZIS, Deputy Director, Bruegel Adel Abdel GHAFAR, Fellow, Brookings Doha Center Frank HAGEMANN, Deputy Regional Director for Arab States, ILO Nasser KAMEL, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean day 02 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 MORNING 10.00 POLICY FORUM sforza room BEYOND BRIDGING EUROPE AND AFRICA: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: THE TUNISIAN NEXUS PROSPECTS FOR GAZA coordinated by ISPI in collaboration with ECFR Chair: Canan ATILGAN, Director, KAS Regional Chair: Hugh LOVATT, Policy Fellow and Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean, Israel/Palestine Project Coordinator, ECFR Tunisia Sara ROY, Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Rafik ABDESSALEM, Director, CSDS Studies, Harvard University Miriam ALLAM, Head, MENA-OECD Matthias SCHMALE, Director, United Nations Governance Programme Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Christian DANIELSSON, Director General Omar SHABAN, Chairman, PalThink for Enlargement, EU for Strategic Studies, Palestine Antonio CAMMISECRA, CEO, Enel Green Power, Susanna TERSTAL, European Union Special Italy Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Youssef CHERIF, Head, Columbia Global Centers, Tunisia Hedi LARBI, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL CULTURE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: SECURITY FOR CRITICAL DIALOGUE BY DOING INFRASTRUCTURE coordinated by ISPI IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Chair: MARTA SERAFINI, Corriere della Sera coordinated by ISPI Focus on Syria and Iraq Chair: Kristina KAUSCH, Senior Resident Fellow, Bakhtiar AMIN, Former Minister of Human Rights GMF and President, Foundation for the Future, Iraq Karam S. NACHAR, Executive Director, Al Jumhuriya Ehab ABDULGADER, Business Coordinator, Collective, Syria Petrogas, Libya Ahmed SAADAWI, Author of Giorgio MOSCA, Director, Security & Information “Frankenstein in Baghdad”, Iraq Systems, Strategy & Technologies, Leonardo Security and Information Systems Division, Italy Civil Society at work Mayssa ZERZRI, Cyber Security Expert, Shaddad ATTILI, Advisor Ranking Minister, Tunis Higher School of Informatics, Tunisia Palestine Liberation Organization’s Negotiations Affairs Department Oded ERAN, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel Forsan HUSSEIN, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Zaitoun Ventures, Israel and Palestine 11.15 sforza COFFEE BREAK gallery day 02 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 MORNING 11.30 SPECIAL DIALOGUE fernandes Yuli-Yoel EDELSTEIN, Speaker, Knesset, Israel room in conversation with Ian LESSER, Vice President, Foreign Policy; Executive Director, Transatlantic Center,GMF 12.00 SPECIAL DIALOGUE Taro KONO, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan in conversation with Karim EL AYNAOUI, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center and Matthew KARNITSCHNIG, Politico Europe 12.30 SPECIAL DIALOGUE Riyad MALKI, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Palestine in conversation with Joost HILTERMANN, Program Director for the Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group and Ugo TRAMBALLI, Senior Advisor, ISPI 13.00 BUFFET LUNCH day 02 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 AFTERNOON 14.30 PLENARY “SHARED PROSPERITY” fernandes FUELING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY room Claudio DESCALZI, CEO, ENI, Italy Tarek EL MOLLA, Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Egypt in dialogue with Andrea CABRINI, Class CNBC David HOBBS, Head of Research, KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia 15.00 SPECIAL DIALOGUE Sergey LAVROV, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia in conversation with Paolo VALENTINO, Corriere della Sera 15.45 COFFEE BREAK sforza gallery 16.15 PLENARY “SHARED PROSPERITY” fernandes THE IMPERATIVE OF GROWTH: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY room Chair: Giampiero MASSOLO, President, ISPI Alessandro PROFUMO, CEO, Leonardo, Italy John ALLEN, Former Commander, US Central Command; President, Brookings Institution Marwan HAYEK, Chairman and CEO, Alfa Mobile, Lebanon Andreas SCHWER, CEO, Saudi Arabian Military Industries 17.30 PLENARY “SHARED PROSPERITY” PLENARY “SHARED SECURITY” THE IMPERATIVE OF GROWTH: ENHANCING LIBYA’S ECONOMY: THE ROLE OF INVESTMENTS THE COMPLEMENTARY PATH Chair: Karim EL AYNAOUI, Managing Director, TO STABILIZATION OCP Policy Center in partnership with Chatham House and BCG , Kamel GHRIBI, Founder, GK Investment Holding, Chair: Arturo VARVELLI Co-Head, MENA Centre, ISPI Tunisia Tim EATON, Research Fellow, Middle East Raya Haffar EL HASSAN, Chairwoman, and North Africa Programme, Chatham House Tripoli Special Economic Zone and Former Saddek ELKABER, Governor, Central Bank of Libya Minister of Finance, Lebanon Giuseppe FALCO, Senior Partner and Managing Pierre HEILBRONN, Vice-President, Director, BCG Italy Policy and Partnerships, European Bank Taher E.A. JEHAIMI, Minister of Planning, Libya for Reconstruction and Development Michael SCHAEFFER, Representative in Libya, Marie Françoise MARIE-NELLY, Country Director Middle East and North Africa, World Bank for the Maghreb and Malta, Middle East and Tarik M. YOUSEF, Director, Brookings Doha North Africa, World Bank 18.30 PLENARY “MIGRATION” TOWARDS A GLOBAL COMPACT: WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE REGION? Chair: Paolo MAGRI, Executive Vice President and Director, ISPI Carmelo ABELA, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malta Mounia BOUCETTA, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Morocco Antonio VITORINO, Director General, International Organization for Migration day 03 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24 MORNING 08.45 PLENARY “SHARED SECURITY” sforza TWO YEARS IN: TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST POLICY room Chair: Dlawer ALALDEEN, President, MERI Keynote speech David HALE, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State, USA John ALLEN, Former Commander, US Central Command; President, Brookings Institution Kim R. HOLMES, Executive Vice President, Heritage Foundation, USA 10.30 sforza COFFEE BREAK gallery 11.00 PLENARY “SHARED SECURITY” PLENARY “CULTURE fernandes/ SYRIA: WHAT LIES AHEAD? AND CIVIL SOCIETY” sforza Chair: Maha YAHYA, Director, A NEW ISLAMIC IDENTITY: rooms Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon POLITICS, SCIENCE AND CULTURE Keynote speech IN A PLURAL WORLD Staffan DE MISTURA, Special Envoy Chair: Alberto MELLONI, Foundation to Syria, United Nations for Religious Studies Julien BARNES-DACEY, Director, Keynote speech MENA Programme, ECFR Rached GHANNOUCHI, Leader, Hani KHABBAZ, Director General, Ennahda Movement, Tunisia Management Unit, Syria Recovery Trust Fund Andrey KORTUNOV, Director General, RIAC Mohammed BAGHERI, Former Director Ian LESSER, Vice President, The German Marshall and Associate Professor, Institute for the History Fund of the United States of Science, University of Tehran Sedat ÖNAL, Deputy Minister, Yahya PALLAVICINI, President, CO.RE.IS., Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey the Islamic Religious Community of Italy Olivier ROY, Professor, EUI 12.15 CLOSING REMARKS fernandes Gianni DE GENNARO, President, Leonardo room Claudio DESCALZI, CEO, ENI Giampiero MASSOLO, President, ISPI CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEECH Giuseppe CONTE, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy With the presence of the President Emeritus of the Italian Republic and Honorary President of ISPI Giorgio NAPOLITANO follow us on @ispionline / @ItalyMFA @ispionline / @ItalyMFA.it @ispigram / @italymfa.