APSACO 2021 - ALLOCUTIONS D'OUVERTURE / DISCUSSION INTRODUCTIVE

June 21, 2021

ALLOCUTIONS D'OUVERTURE - Karim El Aynaoui, président exécutif, Policy Center for the New South - Rachid El Houdaigui, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South DISCUSSION INTRODUCTIVE Président : Mabingue Ngom, directeur régional du Fonds des Nations unies pour la population pour les pays d’Afrique occidentale et centrale, FNUAP Conférenciers : - Bineta Diop, envoyée spéciale pour les femmes, la paix et la sécurité, Commission de l'Union africaine - Letty Chiwara, Représentante de l’ONU Femmes en Ethiopie, de l’UA et de la Commission Economique pour l’Afrique, ONU Femmes

Speakers
Rachid El Houdaigui
Senior Fellow
Rachid El Houdaïgui is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He also serves as a professor of International Relations at Abdelmalek Essaadi University's Law Faculty in Tangier. His expertise encompasses international relations, geopolitics, defense and security, focusing on the Mediterranean region, North Africa, and the Arab world. He also serves as a professor at the Royal College of Advanced Military Studies in Kenitra and is a visiting professor at Cergy-Pontoise University (Paris), Cadiz University (Spain), and La Sagesse University (Beirut, Lebanon).   He is the founder of the Moroccan-Spanish review "Peace and International Security" and oversees the Observatory of Mediterranean Studies ...
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 ...
Mabingue Ngom
Regional Director, West & Central Africa, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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Bineta Diop
Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, African Union Commission
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Letty Chiwara
UN Women Representative to Ethiopia, the Africa Union and the and Economic Commission for Africa, UN Women
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