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(EN) Launch of the 5th Edition of The ATLANTIC CURRENTS

December 13, 2018
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Moderator Bouchra Rahmouni, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Speakers Hafsat Abiola, President and CEO, Women in Africa Initiative Youness Abouyoub, Director of the Governance and State-Building Division for the MENA Region, United Nations Rachid El Houdaigui, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Youssef Mahmoud, Senior Adviser Africa Middle East and peace operations programs, International Peace Institute (IPI) Soukeyna Ndiaye Ba, Former Minister of Decentralized Cooperation and Regional Planning, Senegal

Speakers
Youness Abouyoub
Director, Governance and State-Building Division for the MENA Region, United Nations; Former Senior Political Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Libya
Former head of the political office of the UN Under-Secretary General for Conflict Prevention and senior political advisor to the UN Secretary General Special Envoy to Burundi. He directed the political office of the UN Secretary General Special Envoy to Yemen and acted as his senior special advisor. He also was the senior political officer in charge of the regional affairs in the UN political mission to Libya (UNSMIL) and head of office of the special representative of the UN Secretary General in Libya. He also served as Senior Regional Expert in the UN Security Council Panel of Experts on Sudan (Darfur) and worked for the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (New York) and the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi. Mr. Youness Abouyoub holds a PhD in politi ...
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 St ...
Youssef Mahmoud
Senior Adviser Africa Middle East and peace operations programs, International Peace Institute (IPI)
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Soukeyna Ndiaye Ba
Former Minister of Decentralized Cooperation and Regional Planning, Senegal
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