Speakers & Chairs

Deputy Secretary General for Water, Environment and Blue Economy | Union for the Mediterranean

Executive Director and Director of Research | Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES)

Secretary General, Arab League

Author; CEO | Rhodes Scholar and Fiker Institute

Senior Analyst, Social Media and Conflict | International Crisis Group

High Representative | Coalition for the Sahel

Researcher | Wana Institute

Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)

Deputy Foreign Minister; President | Islamic Republic of Iran and IPIS

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates | Palestine

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar

President | Emirates Policy Center

Director of Foreign Relations | Al Khoei Institute

CEO | Kuwait Petroleum Corporation

Undersecretary General for Corporate Communication | Muslim World League

Founding President | MERI

Fellow; Director | Middle East Council on Global Affairs; Crisis Response Council

Journalist | Bloomberg

Chief Executive Officer | The Carter Center

Senior Analyst | Elcano Royal Institute

International TV presenter and Journalist

Head of the Department of Middle East and North Africa | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Former Minister of Water | Palestine

Director Adriatic Sea Department | European Investment Bank 

Director | Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut

Co-Founder and General Coordinator | MARCH

Head and Senior Research Fellow, MENA Programme; Associate Fellow | Royal United Services Institute; ISPI

Marie Curie Fellow | German Institute for Global and Area Studies

Alternate Executive Director | The World Bank

Assistant Professor | University of Sfax

Minister of Energetic Transition and Sustainable Development | Morocco

Communication Consultant |

Senior Economist | Policy Center for the New South

Research Fellow | European Council on Foreign Relations

Minister of Oil & Environment; Special Envoy for Climate Affairs | Bahrain

Prince | Jordan

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants | Lebanon

Member of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet - 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Director, North Africa | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Managing Editor | Class CNBC

Minister for Gozo | Malta

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Turkey

Head of Mission | European Union Border Assistance Mission in Libya

Professor | Sabanci University; Mediterranean Women Mediators Network

Journalist | RAI

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation | Italy

Director | Euro-Mediterranean Policies Department, IEMed

Secretary of State | Holy See

President, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee | Senate of the Italian Republic

Minister of Defence | Italy

Journalist | RAI

Executive Director | Globe Ethics Foundation, Geneva

Development Specialist | Enel Group

Senior Fellow | Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Vice Admiral Commander in Chief Fleet | Italy

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

EU Special Envoy to Sahel | European Union

Director General | Geneva Call

Economist and Former Chairman | Libyan Investment Authority

CEO | ENI

President | Union of Italian Jewish Communities

President | ENEA, Italy

Director of Research for the Finance for Development Lab | Paris School of Economics

Minister of State for Europe | UK

Executive President; Executive Vice-President | Policy Center for the New South; Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

President | Mauritania

Director | Sadeq Institute

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Libya

Associate Fellow | Chatham House

Director | Jordanian Center for Strategic Studies

Jakurski Family associate professor | Harvard Business School

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Slovenia

Senior Fellow and Director | North Africa and Sahel program, Middle East Institute

Special Adviser for the MENA region | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Author | Jordan

Director | Climate and Environment Program, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

General Manager | Save the Children Italy

Deputy Director Internationalization and Trade Policy | Confindustria

Secretary General's Special Representative for Women Peace and Security | NATO 

President | European Institute of the Mediterranean

Head of International Relations | Comunità di Sant'Egidio

Chief Economist | Middle East and North Africa, World Bank

Senior Analyst for Libya | International Crisis Group

Commissioner for Economy | European Commission

Deputy Director and Senior Policy Fellow | MENA Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Special Rapporteur of freedom of religion or belief | United Nations

Senior Analyst, Middle East and North Africa | European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Journalist | RAI

Co-founder; President and Founder | Diplomeds; Mitvim

President, Cassa depositi e Prestiti | Italy

CEO | U.S. Institute of Peace

Chairman | Fincantieri

Minister of Foreign and European Affairs | Croatia

Director, Energy Security and Climate Initiative | The Brookings Institution

Director General | The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Climate Action | United Nations Development Programme

Managing Director, Directorate of Global Partnerships and External Relations; Director General’s Special Representative for Africa | UNIDO

CEO | Philip Morris Italy

Executive Director | Stimson Europe

Senior Associate Fellow | Royal United Services Institute

Associate Professor in Comparative Politics | Department of Government, LSE

Student’s Voice | UNIMED Network

Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution | Arab American University, Palestine

Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies | Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Deputy Secretary General | OECD

Spokesperson, Presidency of the Republic of Turkey

Secretary General | Union for the Mediterranean (UFM)

Journalist | Politico

Deputy Executive Director and Senior Fellow | Arab Center Washington DC

Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme | Chatham House, UK

Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process | European Union

Director-General | International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Algeria

Managing Director for the Middle East and North Africa | European External Action Service

Acting Assistant Secretary | Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Vice President | The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

Journalist | Haaretz

Chevening Scholar 2021-2022 | Public Policy, Tunisia

Director, TG 1 | RAI

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

Special Envoy for Iran | USA

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance | F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation | Niger

President | Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

Senior Deputy Secretary General | Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean

President of the Republic | Italy

Secretary General | International Energy Forum (IEF)

Fellow | Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

Senior Policy Fellow | ECFR

Author | Morocco

President of the Council of Ministers | Italy

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Mauritania

Director, North Africa Initiative, Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Program | Atlantic Council

Professor; Founder | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Algorand

Journalist | Bloomberg

Secretary General | East Mediterranean Gas Forum

Geneva Representative and Policy Advisor | INTERSOS

President; Secretary General | Mediterranean Perspectives and Italian Network for the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue

Director | Center for Mediterranean Integration

Director | Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Head of Communications and Marketing | Martens Centre

Minister Foreign and Expatriates Affairs | Yemen

Managing Director | Al-Multaqqa Brokerage & Investment Co.

Director | Unicef Innocenti

Minister of Knowledge Economy and Startups | Algeria

Research Director; Former Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee | Ankara institute; Turkish parliament

Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations

Acting Executive Director | UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Senior Associate Research Fellow | ISPI

Minister of Environment and Energy Security | Italy

Director Public Affairs | ENI

Associate Vice-President, Strategy and Knowledge Department | IFAD

Prime Minister | Albania

President | International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Professor | European University Institute

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Jordan

Former Special Representative for Libya, United Nations; Professor of International Relations, Science Po

Counterterrorism Coordinator | European Union

Head, Iran Division | EEAS

Minister of Foreign Affairs | Egypt

State Minister of Foreign Affairs | Japan

Secretary General | AVSI Foundation

Minister of Energy and Environment | Greece

Journalist | Wall Street Journal

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation | Italy

Communication Specialist | Jordan

Non-Resident Fellow, Economics and Energy Programme | Middle East Institute

Deputy Chairman; President | Federation of Egyptian Industries, and The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies; American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt 

President; Head | Women International Security; Italy and Mediterranean Women Mediators Network

Chief Economist | Food and Agriculture Organization

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

President, Foreign Affairs Committee | Chamber of Deputies, Italy

Senior Adviser to the President and Project Director, Iran | International Crisis Group

Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow, MENA programme | Chatham House

Commissioner, Neighbourhood and Enlargement, European Commission

Vice President | European Investment Bank

Director, Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean | KAS

Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and Middle East Programs | Atlantic Council

Former Special Adviser on Libya | United Nations

Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for Lebanon | United Nations

Senior Advisor | USIP

Director | Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon

Cairo Bureau Chief | New York Times

Director of Planning Division | Israel Water Authority

Assistant Secretary General | League of Arab States