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MED – Mediterranean Dialogues

From

22
10:45 am November 2018

To

24
1:30 pm November 2018

Rome, Italy

 

November 22, 2018 – Euro-MED Think Tank Forum

10:45 – 12:15

Breakout Session II 
Economy First : Matching Growth and Social Cohesion

Speakers
- Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco
- Awad Ibrahim, Chairman, Libyan Organization of Policies & Strategies, LOOPS, Libya
- Luigi Narbone, Director, Middle East Directions Programme, Robert
- Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute – EUI, European Union

Chair:
-Monika Sie Dhian Ho, General Director, Netherlands Institute of International Relations – Clingendael, Netherlands 

November 23, 2018 – MED Conference

08:30 – 10:00

Seizing the Future: Employing Youth in the MENA Region 
In collaboration with Bruegel, DGAP and OCP Policy Center

Speakers:
- Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium
- Adel Abdel Ghafar, Fellow, Brookings Doha Center
- Frank Hagemann, Deputy Regional Director for Arab States, ILO
- Nasser Kamel, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean
- Michael Kohler, Director for the Neighborhood South, Directorate-General Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations, EU

Chair
Dina Fakoussa, Head, Middle East and North Africa Program, DGAP

11:30– 12:00

Special Dialogue

Speakers:
- Taro Kono, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco
- Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico Europe 

12:30– 13:30

Plenary “Shared Prosperity”
The Imperative of Growth: The Role of Investments

Speakers:
- Kamel Ghribi, Founder, GK Investment Holding Tunisia
- Bandar M. J. Al Hajjae, President, Islamic Development Bank
- Raya Haffar El Hassan, Chairwoman, Tripoli Special Economic Zone and Former Minister of Finance, Lebanon
- Pierre Heilbronn, Vice-President, Policy and Partnerships, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Marie Françoise Marie-Nelly, Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank

Chair
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center

 

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 countries. Hi ...
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 ...