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December 12, 2019
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Speaker Lilia Rizk, Emerging Leaders Program Coordinator, Policy Center for the New South Welcoming Remarks Speaker Karim El Aynaoui, President, Policy Center for the New South Opening Conversation: Living in the Age of Uncertainty Moderator Richard Lui, Journalist and News Anchor, MSNBC Speaker Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President, Federal Republic of Nigeria Plenary I: The Prospects for Populism Moderator Richard Lui, Journalist and News Anchor, MSNBC Speakers María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain J. Peter Pham, United States Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa Paulo Portas, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal Ignacio Walker, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chile

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. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco (Bank Al-Maghrib) as Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. He also created and headed the Research Department and served as 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. He has co-authored works on growth and the labor market in M ...
Lilia Rizk
Chargée de Mission to the Executive President
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Ana Palacio
Spain
Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Kingdom of Spain
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J. Peter Pham
Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council of the United States
J. Peter Pham is the director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. He is also the incumbent vice president of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), and is editor-in-chief of ASMEA's Journal of the Middle East and Africa. Pham was previously senior vice president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and editor of its bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests. He was also a tenured associate professor of justice studies, political science, and Africana studies at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he was director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pham is the author of more than 300 essays, and reviews, and the author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books, most ...
Paulo Portas
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal
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