Events
The Employment and the Youth Dividends; Africa’s Approach to Internally Displaced Persons, Migration and Refugees ; Can you hear us now? Strategic Communications for Think Tanks
The Policy Center for the New South has been invited to attend and speak at the 2020 Africa Think Tank Summit taking place on February 26-28, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.
- - Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow, will speak in the first Plenary Panel entitled “The Risks and Rewards of New World Reorder for Africa”;
- - Khalid Chegraoui, Senior Fellow, will speak in the Breakout Session entitled “Balancing on the Head of a Pin: Managing the Employment and the Youth Dividends”;
- - Amal El Ouassif, Research Assistant in International Relations, will speak in the Breakout Session entitled “Updating Africa’s Approach to Internally Displaced Persons, Migration and Refugees”.
- - Lilia Rizk, Coordinator of the Emerging Leaders Program, will speak in the Breakout Session entitled “Can you hear us now? Strategic Communications for Think Tanks”.
The 2020 Africa Think Tank Summit is organized by the Think Tank and Civil Societies Program of the University of Pennsylvania. It aims at proposing strategies and actionable recommendations for think tanks to meaningfully contribute to tackling policy implementation challenges within the context of Africa’s vision, through sharing knowledge and country case studies on good practices in ensuring successful implementation of policies and strategies.
This event is taking place in Cape Town, South Africa.
Speakers
Abdelhak Bassou
Senior Fellow
Abdelhak Bassou is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. Bassou has had an extensive career in Moroccan National Security, where he served in various capacities including as head of the border division from 1978 to 1993. He was the former director of the Royal Institute of Police in 1998 and served as Head of Regional Security (Errachidia 1999-2003, Sidi Kacem 2003-2005) and as Central Director of General Intelligence from 2006 to 2009.
He holds a master's degree in political science and international studies from the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Rabat. His academic research delves into inte ...
Khalid Chegraoui
Senior Fellow
Khalid Chegraoui is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Vice Dean of Political Sciences and International Relations at the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI University.
He began his teaching and research career in 1992 as a Research Assistant Professor at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University in Fez after earning his first doctorate in African Studies from the Mohammed V University in Rabat focusing on West Sub-Saharan Africa. He also earned a Doctorate of State in African Studies from the same University in 2002, where he focused on Contemporary West Africa, in 2003 he became Professor of History and Political Anthropology at the Institute of African Studies, Mohammed V University, consultant on African and Middle Ea ...
Amal El Ouassif
International Relations Specialist
Amal El Ouassif is an International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South. Prior to this, she worked as a program coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and served as a consultant in development policies with the office of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Morocco. She is also a former bluebook trainee in the Directorate General of Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion in the European Commission in Brussels. Amal has a Master of Art in EU’s International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master in Development Studies from UPMF-Grenoble. Her area of interest include Africa- Europe cooperation and migration.
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