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Global Think Tank Summit 2018

From

07
9:00 am November 2018

To

09
5:00 pm November 2018

Brussels, Belgium

On 7-9 November 2018, Bruegel and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the University of Pennsylvania held the Global Think Tank Summit 2018 in Brussels. The event gathered a hundred executives from the most influential Think Tanks around the world and featured panels on topics of global importance.

On the 7th of November, part of the programme was open for the public. OCP Policy Center was represented throughout the conference and contributed on November 9, to the Closing Plenary Round Table Session, as highlighted below:

Agenda 

 

November 09, 2018

11:30 – 12:30

Closing Plenary Round Table Session
Think Tanks, Multilateral Institutions Are Dead? Or Learning to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Disruption, Change and Chaos

Speakers:
- Michael Cox, Director LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco
- Julia Karmo, Journalist and Founding Editor, Migration Matters, Germany
- Ann Mettler, Head, European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), European Commission, Belgium

Chair:
Mohammed Kazim, Founding Director, The Dialogue, India

 

Speakers
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster.   Karim El Aynaoui is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa.   Karim El Aynaoui has published books and journal articles on macroeconomic issues in developing countr ...
Alfredo Da Gama e Abreu Valladão
Senior Fellow
Alfredo G. A. Valladão is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South and Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) of Sciences Po Paris, who focuses on international affairs, geopolitics, global economics, Brazil and Latin America. Alongside these positions, he is President of the Advisory Board at EU-Brazil association in Brussels, Member International Advisory Board of CEBRI (Brazilian Center for International Relations – Rio de Janeiro), Member of the Comité des Rencontres Internationales de Genève (RIG), Director of the Latin America Research Chair at CESEM-HEM in Morocco and a columnist for Radio France Internationale (RFI). Former member of the Board of Trustees of UNITAR (2009-1015), and former Director of the Mercosur Chair of Sciences Po (199 ...