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Moroccan and Regional Perspectives on Current Trends in Time of Multiple Crises

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Location: Policy Center for the New South

The Policy Center for the New South and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung are jointly organizing a roundtable under the theme “Moroccan and Regional Perspectives on Current Trends in Time of Multiple Crises” taking place on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023.

In an increasingly interconnected world, where global polarization and shifting power dynamics are shaping the international landscape, it is imperative to explore the challenges and opportunities for fostering Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation. This roundtable will be therefore centered around three key sessions: global polarization and the rule-based world order, regional alliances and rivalries, and perspectives of Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation.

This event will also be the opportunity to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

Agenda

14h00-14h15

Welcome Remarks

- Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President, Policy Center for the New South
- Gerhard Wahlers, Deputy Secretary General, KAS

 

 

 

14h15- 14h45

Roundtable

Moderator
- Nouzha Chekrouni, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
 

14:15 – 14:25 : Session I: Global Polarization and the rule-based world order

Speakers     
- Kidane Kiros, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
- Roderich Kiesewetter MdB, Member of the German Bundestag

14:25 – 14:35 : Session II: Regional Alliances and Rivalries

Speakers        
- Mounia Boucetta, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
- Beatrice Gorawantschy, Director KAS Office Israel

14:35 – 14:45 : Session III: Perspectives of Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation

Speakers       
- Mehdi Benomar, Head – International Relations Department, Policy Center for the New Sout
- Thomas Volk, Director KAS Office Regional Programme Political Dialogue and Regional Integration in the Southern Mediterranean

14:45 – 14:50

Closing Remarks

Steffen Krüger, Director, KAS Office Morocco

14:50-16:00

Discussions

16:00-16:15

Memorandum of Understanding Signing Ceremony
Hicham El Habti, President, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Norbert Lammert, President, Konrad-Adenauer Foundation Germany
Speakers
Mehdi Benomar
Head – Research in International Relations
Mehdi Benomar has cumulated 18 years of experience as analyst and occupied several positions in public organizations: in National Defense as head of division (2000-2008), in the cabinet of the ministry of Mines and Energy (2010-12) and in OCP Group (2012-2017). He also served as senior consultant in private firm Global Intelligence Partners (G.I.P.) (2008-2010) in Rabat. He specialized in strategic monitoring issues and contributed on different topics related to proliferation, energy and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nuclear Engineer, he graduated from the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives and has a master in sciences. ...
Mounia Boucetta
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Mounia Boucetta has over 20 years of experience in public administration, holding numerous managerial and leadership roles, and working particularly on the development of industrial and commercial policies. She was most recently Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Morocco from 2017 to 2019.   A graduate from the prestigious Mohammadia School of Engineers (Morocco), Mounia Boucetta joined the Ministry of Industry and Trade in 1991 where she held numerous positions before her appointment as its Secretary General in 2010. In this context, she contributed to numerous projects including, but not limited to, reorganizational projects, implementatio ...
Nouzha Chekrouni
Senior Fellow
Dr. Nouzha Chekrouni is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South. She has extensive experience in academia, diplomacy and political leadership.  She has served as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Canada (2009-2016), and Dean of the Council of Arab League Ambassadors to Canada (2015-2016). Dr. Chekrouni was Minister for the Moroccan Community Living Abroad (2002-2007), a Member of Parliament (2002-2007), and the Minister for Women and Social Issues (1998-2002). She holds a Bachelor Degree from the Philological Faculty at the University of Fez, a Post-Graduate Diploma and a PhD in Linguistics from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Dr. Chekrouni has also completed a Certificate in Ethics and International Relations at Harvard University. She is a 2016 Sen ...
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 develop ...
Beatrice Gorawantschy
Director KAS Office Israel
Beatrice Gorawantschy holds a PhD in Political Science from the Saar University in Germany. She has been with the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) since 1992 and served on postings for the Foundation in Ankara, Manila, Bangkok, Paris, New Delhi and Singapore and also headed the Department of Asia and the Pacific of KAS Headquarters in Berlin. With her research and work in the field of international relations in the past 30 years she has focused on politics in the Middle East, Asia and the Indo-Pacific and its relations to Europe. In 2017 the new KAS Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific, based in Canberra, was established under her directorship. She became the director of the KAS Israel office in Jerusalem in September 2021. ...
Roderich Kiesewetter
Member of the German Bundestag
Roderich Kiesewetter has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal election. In the Bundestag, Kiesewetter is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation. In his parliamentary group, he is spokesman for disarmament and the prevention of civil crises. Within the Committee on Foreign Affairs, he is the rapporteur of his group on the Balkans, the Mediterranean and the Maghreb countries; previously, he also covered energy policy. During the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2013 federal elections, Kiesewetter was part of the CDU/CSU delegation within the working group on foreign affairs, defense policy and development cooperation, led by Thomas de Maizi ...
Kidane Kiros
Senior Fellow
Dr. Kidane Kiros Bitsue is currently Professor-Researcher at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University’s Faculty of Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at Policy Centre for the New South. He holds a PhD degree in Development Studies. Prior to joining Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Dr Kidane served as the Director of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University (AAU) from March 2014 – June 2019. In his capacity as the Director of IPSS, he had directed the successful conduct of six (6) annual conferences of Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa that took place from 2014 – 2019. As a result of efforts done under his directorship in the areas of academic, research and outreach activities; IPSS had been rated among the t ...
Steffen Krüger
Resident Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Morocco
Steffen Krüger is the Resident Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Morocco since January 2019. Between 2015 and 2018, he held the position of Coordinator in the Africa Department at the KAS Foundation's headquarters in Berlin, where he coordinated activities in Africa with German policymakers. Between 2012 and 2015 he was the KAS Resident Representative in Kinshasa, DRC, where he worked mainly on security reforms, civil society strengthening and human rights. He was also Director of Grants Programs with Fintrac in the United States between 2011 and 2012, Senior Program Officer of the World Learning Program in Washington, D.C. between 2006 and 2011, and Deputy Resident Representative for the sub-regional program "Political Training in West Africa" between ...
Thomas Volk
Director of the Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS PolDiMed)
Thomas Volk based in Tunis. He has a background in social sciences and holds a PhD and holds a doctorate in Near and Middle East studies. In addition, he was the KAS representative for Senegal and Gambia based in Dakar during the period 2016-2020. ...
Gerhard Wahlers
Deputy Secretary General and Head of the International Division of the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung in Berlin
Dr. Gerhard WAHLERS, (born November 22, 1959 in Münster/Germany), has been Deputy Secretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung since 2007 and Head of the International Division since 2003. Dr. WAHLERS has a doctorate in philosophy and studied history, sociology, economics and political science. He is the author and editor of numerous contributions and publications on international politics as well as German and European foreign, security and development policy. Dr. Gerhard WAHLERS joined the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in 1990 as head of the division for international cooperation. Prior to that, WAHLERS headed the KAS offices in the USA (1997-2003) and Israel (1994-1997). Under his leadership, the Foundation's international work has grown to include over 100 offices wo ...