09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi (Sforza A)
First Day - MED Fora
5
Dec
2019
09:00 am Aldrovandi Hotel
Policy Planners Strategy Retreat – What If? in Search of Regional Security Leadership in the Mediterranean
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi (Fernandes)
First UFM Annual Conference on Water Investment and Financing
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi (Farnese)
Euro – Med Think tank Forum
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi (Sforza D)
Migration – Paving Legal Pathways for Migration
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi (Press Room)
Youth Forum – Youth Forum Contest: Ideas and Projects at Work
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi (Farnese)
Women’s Forum – Power And Skills: Women Making The Difference In The Mediterranean Region
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi (Sforza D)
Infrastructure – Stay Connected: Infrastructure as a Tool for Economic Integration in the Mediterranean
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi (Medici)
Illicit Trafficking – Along Remote Routes: Countering Illicit Traffics in the Broader Mediterranean Region
Second Day
6
Dec
2019
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Opening Session and Welcoming Remarks
Giampiero Massolo, Luigi Di Maio
10:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
From Competition to Collaboration in the Mena Region? Recomposing the Geopolitical Puzzle
Bethany Bell, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, John R. Allen, Gebran Bassil, Mohcine Jazouli
11:30 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Turkey)
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Ian Lesser, Monica Maggioni
12:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Saudi Arabia)
Adel bin Ahmed Al Jubeir, Matthew Karnitschnig, Marc Perelman
12:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Egypt)
Sameh Shoukry, Amy Kellogg, Marc Perelman
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Out Of Dependency? Coping with Economic Diversification in Rentier States
Adel Hamaizia, Alia Moubayed, Karen Young, Ibrahim S. Alsuwail, Robert Springborg
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Syria: Finding the Way Out
Geir O. Pedersen, Paolo Magri, Galip Dalay, Andrey Kortunov, Dima Moussa, Dorothée Schmid, Randa Slim
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
The Rise And Future of Militias in the MENA Region
Ranj Alaaldin, Bettina Cadenbach, Florence Gaub, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Cynthia Salloum
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Israel)
Israel Katz, James McGann, Stefano Polli
15:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Palestine)
Riyad Al Malki, Gregg Carlstrom, Ugo Tramballi
15:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
In conversation with Susanna Terstal, Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, European Union
Gregg Carlstrom, Susanna Terstal
16:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Russia)
Sergey Lavrov, Riccardo Chartroux, Franco Venturini
16:45 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
A Call for Action: Driving Investments and Innovation in the MENA Region
Bronwyn Nielsen, Mansoor Al Mahmoud, Pierre Heilbronn, Romano Prodi, Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, Rachid Mohamed Rachid
16:45 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
The Geopolitical Side of Climate Change: Resource Scarcity and Conflicts
Andrea Cabrini, Carmelo Abela, Karim El Aynaoui, Patrizia Grieco, Nasser Kamel, Francesco La Camera
16:45 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
The Mena Region: What’s Next After the Pax Americana?
Karim Mezran, Mark N. Katz, Roderich Kiesewetter, Philip T. Reeker, Maxim A. Suchkov
16:45 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
In Conversation with (Lebanon)
Marc Perelman, Jan Kubis, Fouad Makhzoumi
17:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Managing Migration
Ali Aslan, Kamel Akrout, Miro Cerar, Marta Foresti, Joseph Muscat
18:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
In conversation with…(Terrorism after ISIS? Avoiding the Revival)
Gilles Kepel, Marta Serafini
18:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Qatar)
Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Bronwyn Nielsen, Nicolas Pelham
19:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Speech by (Chad)
Idriss Déby Itno, Karim El Aynaoui
19:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Narrating the MENA Region: People beyond States
Maria Cuffaro, Nabil Al Sharif, Ramin Bahrami, Amara Lakhous
Third Day
7
Dec
2019
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Managing Conflicts and Stabilization in a broader Mediterranean
Staffan De Mistura, Stefano Del Col, Khaled Khiari, Miguel Angel Moratinos, Elisabeth Spehar
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Reshaping Policy: The US Engagement in the MENA Region
Amy Kellogg, Peter Berkowitz, Thomas Hill, Vali Nasr, Maha Yahya
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Exiting War Economies: Economic Stabilization and Reconstruction in MENA Countries
Luigi Narbone, Abla Abdel Latif, Tim Eaton, Sarhang Hamasaeed, Steven Heydemann, Kenji Wakamiya
09:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
The Youth Factor: Challenges and Opportunities for New Generations in the MENA Region
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Miriam Allam, May Chidiac, Omar Saif Ghobash, Adnane Addioui, Lydia Bassaly, Ahmad Bassam Hilmi
10:30 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (India)
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Claire Casey, Ugo Tramballi
10:30 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Algeria)
Sabri Boukadoum, Andrea Rizzi, Luca Salerno
11:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Energy Security in the 21st Century
Andrea Cabrini, Hossa Al Mutairi, Tarek El Molla, Kostas Fragogiannis, Toula Onoufriou, Sun Xiansheng
11:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Along the New Silk Road: China and Middle East Relations
Adel Hamaizia, Hamad Al Bazai, Guy Burton, Ming Liu, Wu Hongbo
11:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
A New Arab Awakening? Patterns of Mobilization in the MENA Region
Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Emmanuel Dupuy, Zaid Eyadat, Dalia Ghanem, Kristina Kausch
11:00 am Rome - Parco dei Principi
Saving the Peace: State and Nation Building in Iraq
Dlawer Ala'aldeen, Farhad Alaaldin, Maria Fantappiè, Michael Köhler
12:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Libya)
Ghassan Salamè, Mohamed Taher Syala, David Hearst
13:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
The Libyan Crisis. What lies ahead?
Giampiero Massolo, Ghassan Salamè, Claudia Gazzini, Wolfram Lacher, Arturo Varvelli, Henry Wooster
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Raising the Game: Iran and Regional Security
Ellie Geranmayeh, Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Vali Nasr, Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour, Ali Vaez, Sanam Vakil
14:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Tunisia)
Sabri Bachtobji, Franco di Mare
15:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (Energy)
Claudio Descalzi, Ali Aslan
15:30 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Dialogue (European Union)
Paolo Gentiloni, Matthew Karnitschnig
16:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Closing Dialogue (Yemen)
Tawakkol Karman, Ali Aslan, Bethany Bell
17:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Closing Remarks
Claudio Descalzi, Giampiero Massolo
17:00 pm Rome - Parco dei Principi
Closing Keynote Speeches
Luigi Di Maio, Giuseppe Conte