Abla Abdel Latif
Executive Director and Director of Research, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt
Carmelo Abela
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, Malta
Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Secretary General, Arab League
Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Secretary General, Arab League
Adnane Addioui
President, Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE), Morocco
Katja Adler
Europe Editor, BBC
Kamel Akrout
Former First National Security Adviser to the President, Tunisia
Kamel Akrout
Former First National Security Adviser to the President, Tunisia
Mohammad Naji Al Assam
Leader, Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), Sudan
Hamad Al Bazai
Deputy Minister of Finance, Saudi Arabia
Adel bin Ahmed Al Jubeir
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia
Mansoor Al Mahmoud
CEO, Qatar Investment Authority
Riyad Al Malki
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates | Palestine
Ayman Al Safadi
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Jordan
Nabil Al Sharif
Executive Director, Anna Lindh Foundation
Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
Shirwan Al Waili
Advisor to the President and Former Minister of National Security, Iraq
Youssef Bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen
Secretary General, Organization for the Islamic Cooperation
Ranj Alaaldin
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Qatar
Farhad Alaaldin
Head of the Iraqi Advisory Council and Former Advisor to the Iraqi President
Miriam Allam
Head, Governance Programme MENA-OECD, OECD
John R. Allen
President, The Brookings Institution, USA
Hossa Al Mutairi
Sustainable Energy, Food and Water System Task Force Chair, and Research Fellow, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)
Ibrahim S. Alsuwail
Deputy Governor of Investor Services, General Investment Authority (SAGIA), Saudi Arabia
Haizam Amirah-Fernandez
Senior Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute, Spain
Dimitris Avramopoulos
Former European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, EU
Sabri Bachtobji
Minister of Foreign Affairs ad interim, Tunisia (Until 2020)
Emad Badi
Non-resident Scholar, Middle East Institute (MEI)
Emaddedin Badi
Advisor for Libya, DCAF
Ramin Bahrami
Pianist, Iran
Julien Barnes-Dacey
Director, MENA Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Belgium
Lydia Bassaly
Head of Recruitment and Translation Services, NaTakallam, Lebanon
Gebran Bassil
Careteker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon (Until 2020)
Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
Research Fellow, RUSI;
Visiting Fellow, King's College London
Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
Head and Senior Research Fellow, MENA Programme; Associate Fellow | Royal United Services Institute; ISPI
Bethany Bell
Foreign Correspondent, BBC News
Peter Berkowitz
Director, State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, USA
Joseph Borrell
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Sabri Boukadoum
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria (Until 2021)
Nasser Bourita
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco
Guy Burton
Visiting Fellow, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics (LSE)
Andrea Cabrini
Managing Editor, Class CNBC, Italy
Bettina Cadenbach
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO
Gregg Carlstrom
Middle East Correspondent, The Economist
Claire Casey
Global Managing Director, Public Policy, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Miro Cerar
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia (Until 2020)
Riccardo Chartroux
Correspondent and presenter, Rai Tg3, Italy
May Chidiac
Caretaker Minister of State for Administrative Development, Lebanon
Giuseppe Conte
President of the Council of Ministers, Italy
Maria Cuffaro
Correspondent and Presenter, Tg3 Rai, Italy
Staffan De Mistura
Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara | United Nations
Idriss Déby Itno
President of the Republic, Chad (Until 2021)
Stefano Del Col
Head of Mission and Force Commander, UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
Maria Demertzis
Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium
Claudio Descalzi
CEO, ENI, Italy
Luigi Di Maio
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Franco di Mare
Deputy Director, RAI1, Italy
Emmanuel Dupuy
President, Institute for European Social Protection (IPSE), France
Tim Eaton
Research Fellow, MENA Programme, Chatham House, UK
Karim El Aynaoui
President, Policy Center for the New South, Morocco
Tarek El Molla
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Egypt
Marta Foresti
Director of the Human Mobility Initiative, ODI
Kostas Fragogiannis
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece
Florence Gaub
Deputy Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
Paolo Gentiloni
Commissioner for Economy, European Commission
Dalia Ghanem
Resident Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon
Rached Ghannouchi
President, People’s Assembly, Tunisia
Omar Saif Ghobash
Assistant Minister for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, UAE
Thomas Gomart
Director, Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), France
Patrizia Grieco
President, ENEL, Italy
Adel Hamaizia
Committee Vice-Chairman, Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum and Associate Fellow, Chatham House
Sarhang Hamasaeed
Director, Middle East Programs, United States Institute of Peace (USIP), USA
David Hearst
Editor in Chief, Middle East Eye
Pierre Heilbronn
Vice President, Policy and Partnerships, EBRD
Steven Heydemann
Professor of Middle East Studies, Janet W. Ketcham 1953, Smith College, USA
Thomas Hill
Senior Program Officer, North Africa, United States Institute of Peace (USIP), USA
Ahmad Bassam Hilmi
Foundier, DoctorX, Jordan
Emile Hokayem
Senior Fellow for Middle East Security, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Fouad Hussain
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Iraq
Rachid Mohamed Rachid Hussein
Chairman, Board of Valentino Company
Eleonora Insalaco
Head of Intercultural Research and Programming, Anna Lindt Foundation
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Minister of External Affairs, India
Mohcine Jazouli
Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Morocco
Mohcine Jazouli
Minister Delegate to the Minsiter of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Morocco
Nasser Kamel
Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean
Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Yemen
Mark N. Katz
Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University, USA
Israel Katz
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Kristina Kausch
Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), USA
Amy Kellogg
Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Fox News, USA
Gilles Kepel
Professor, Paris Science et Lettre (PSL) - École normale Supérieure and Università della Svizzera Italiana, France
Roderich Kiesewetter
Member of the German Bundestag and representative of Foreign Affairs of the CDU/CSU-Group, Germany
Michael Köhler
Deputy Director-General, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, European Commission
Andrey Kortunov
Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Russia
Jan Kubis
Special Coordinator for Lebanon, United Nations
Francesco La Camera
Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Wolfram Lacher
Senior Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany
Nadira Laggoune
Director, Public National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algeria
Amara Lakhous
Author, “Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio”, Algeria
Sergey Lavrov
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia
Ian Lesser
Vice President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Belgium
Ian Lesser
Vice President | The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
Ming Liu
Senior Fellow on International Studies, Institute of International Relations, Shanghai
Monica Maggioni
CEO, RAICOM, Italy
Paolo Magri
Executive Vice President and Director, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy
Fouad Makhzoumi
Senator, Chairman of the National Dialogue Party; Founder, Makhzoumi Foundation, Lebanon
Jared Malsin
Middle East Correspondent, Wall Street Journal, Egypt
Giampiero Massolo
President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy
Jamila Matar
Director, Energy Department, the League of Arab States
Khawla Mattar
Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations
James McGann
Senior lecturer of International Studies at the Lauder Institute, Director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
Karim Mezran
Director, North Africa Initiative; Resident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East programs, Atlantic Council, USA
Zafer Milhem
President, Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA), Palestine
Miguel Angel Moratinos
High Representative for Alliance of Civilizations, UN
Alia Moubayed
Managing Director, EMEA Economics & Strategy, Jefferies International, UK
Dima Moussa
Vice President, Syrian National Coalition, Syria
Joseph Muscat
Prime Minister, Malta
Luigi Narbone
Director, Middle East Directions Programme, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute (EUI), Italy
Vali Nasr
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), USA
Bronwyn Nielsen
CEO, Nielsen Media and Associates
Toula Onoufriou
President, Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company, Cyprus
Geir O. Pedersen
Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations
Nicolas Pelham
Middle East Correspondent, The Economist, UK
Marc Perelman
News Presenter and Interviewer, France24, France
Stefano Polli
Deputy Director, ANSA, Italy
Romano Prodi
Former President, EU Commission; Former UN Special Envoy for Africa
Rachid Mohamed Rachid
Chairman, Valentino Spa
Rachid Mohamed Rachid
Chairman, Board of Valentino Company
Bouchra Rahmouni
Director of Partnerships, Research and Events, Policy Center for the New South, Morocco
Philip T. Reeker
Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, USA
Teresa Ribeiro
Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Portugal
Andrea Rizzi
Foreign News Editor, El País, Spain
Federica Saini Fasanotti
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, USA
Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour
Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Iran
Ghassan Salamè
Special Envoy for Libya, United Nations
Luca Salerno
Journalist, Tg2, Italy
Cynthia Salloum
Faculty Advisor and Researcher, NATO Defense College, Italy
Augusto Santos Silva
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal
Dorothée Schmid
Senior Research Fellow, Head of Turkey and Middle East Program, IFRI, France
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli
Italy Correspondent, Politico
Mohamed Taher Syala
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Libya
Elisabeth Spehar
Special Representative and Head of the Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, United Nations
Robert Springborg
Professor Emeritus Naval Post Graduate School, USA
Maxim A. Suchkov
Senior Fellow, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Russia
Mohamed Taher Syala
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Libya (until 2021)
Susanna Terstal
Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, European Union
Ugo Tramballi
Senior Advisor, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy
Sanam Vakil
Deputy Head and Senior Research Fellow, MENA Programme, Chatham House, UK
Arturo Varvelli
Co-Head, Mena Centre, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy
Franco Venturini
Columnist and special envoy, Corriere della Sera, Italy
Kenji Wakamiya
State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan (until 2019)
Wang Yi
Minister of Foreign Affairs and State Councilor, China
William F. Wechsler
Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and Middle East Programs | Atlantic Council
Henry Wooster
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Maghreb and Egypt, US Department of State, USA
Wu Hongbo
Special Representative of the Chinese Government on European Affairs, China
Sun Xiansheng
Secretary General, International Energy Forum (IEF)
Maha Yahya
Director Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon
Karen Young
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), USA
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran