Innovation et Nouvelles Technologies en Afrique du Nord dans le contexte de la COVID-19

November 25, 2020

Partenaires : Policy Center for the New South, Commission Economique pour l’Afrique des Nations Unies, Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Education, la Science et la Culture · Participants : - Golda El-Khoury, Représentante de l’UNESCO pour le Maghreb - Khaled Hussein, Directeur a.i., Bureau de la CEA pour l’Afrique du Nord - Larabi Jaïdi, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South - Saad Badaoui, Senior Data Scientist, Policy Center for the New South, - Jean-Paul Adam, Directeur chargé des technologies, du changement climatique et de la gestion des ressources naturelles, CEA - Kais Mejri, Directeur Général de l’innovation et du développement technologique, Ministère Tunisien de l’Industrie et des PME - Mohammed Essaidi, Directeur de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes (ENSIAS)

Speakers
Larabi Jaïdi
Senior Fellow
Larabi Jaïdi is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. His areas of expertise include international economy, economic policies, international economic relations, regional economies, social development, international relations, and Mediterranean studies. He also served on the Special Commission on the New Development Model of Morocco, a consultative body created in November 2019 to formulate the country's new developmental guidelines. Jaïdi is a former Professor at Mohamed V University in Rabat-Agdal and a founding member of both the Centre Marocain de Conjoncture and the Groupement d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Méditerranée.   Prof. Jaïdi previously served as Advisor to the Prime Minist ...
Jean-Paul Adam
Director for Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management, UNECA
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Kais Mejri
Directeur Général de l’innovation et du développement technologique, Ministère Tunisien de l’Industrie et des PME
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Khaled Hussein
Directeur a.i, Bureau de la CEA pour l’Afrique du Nord
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