Moderator: Alan Kasujja, Presenter, BBC News - Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center - Yang Guang, General Director, Institute for West-Asian and African Studies, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - Laoye Jaiyeola, CEO, Nigerian Economic Summit Group - Miguel Angel Moratinos, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain
Speakers
Uri Dadush
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Uri Dadush is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, where he served as Senior Fellow from its founding in 2014 until 2022. He is Research Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and a non-resident scholar at Bruegel. He is based in Washington, DC, and is Principal of Economic Policy International, LLC, providing consulting services to the World Bank and to other international organizations as well as corporations. Previously, he served as Director of the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, at the World Bank, was Director of the International Trade, Economic Policy, and Development Prospects Departments. In the private sector before that he was President of the Economist Int ...
Yang Guang
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Miguel Angel Moratinos
High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Mr. Moratinos has committed his professional and political career to international relationships and development cooperation, notably as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain from 2004 to 2010. Between 1987 and 2004, he served as Deputy Director General for Northern Africa (1987-1991), Director of the Institute of Cooperation with the Arab World (1991-1993), Director General of Foreign Policy for Africa and the Middle East (1993-1996), Ambassador of Spain to Israel (1996), and the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process (1996-2003). As the top diplomat in Spain, he represented his country presiding over the UN Security Council in 2004, holding the chairmanships-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the C ...
