#Med2018

Speakers & Chairs

Rafik Abdessalem

Director, CSDS, Tunisia

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Secretary General, Arab League

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Secretary General, Arab League

Riyad Al Malki

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates | Palestine

Ayman Al Safadi

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Jordan

Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq

Ranj Alaaldin

Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Qatar

Miriam Allam

Head, Governance Programme MENA-OECD, OECD

John R. Allen

President, The Brookings Institution, USA

Julien Barnes-Dacey

Director, MENA Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Belgium

Andrea Cabrini

Managing Editor, Class CNBC, Italy

Giuseppe Conte

President of the Council of Ministers, Italy

Gianni De Gennaro

President, Leonardo, Italy

Staffan De Mistura

Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara | United Nations

Maria Demertzis

Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium

Claudio Descalzi

CEO, ENI, Italy

Karim El Aynaoui

President, Policy Center for the New South, Morocco

Tarek El Molla

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Egypt

Kamel Ghribi

Founder, GK Investment Holding, Switzerland

David Hearst

Editor in Chief, Middle East Eye

Joost Hiltermann

Program Director, Middle East & North Africa, International Crisis Group, Belgium

Nasser Kamel

Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean

Kristina Kausch

Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), USA

Andrey Kortunov

Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Russia

Sergey Lavrov

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia

Monica Maggioni

CEO, RAICOM, Italy

Giampiero Massolo

President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy

Alberto Melloni

Director, John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire)

Joseph Muscat

Prime Minister, Malta

Ahmed Saadawi

Writer, Iraq

Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour

Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Iran

Dorothée Schmid

Head, Middle East and Turkey Program, IFRI, France

Susanna Terstal

Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, European Union

Ugo Tramballi

Senior Advisor, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy

Arturo Varvelli

Co-Head, Mena Centre, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy

Maha Yahya

Director Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon