MED Panels
Giampiero Massolo
President, Senior Advisor, Mundys, ISPI
Luigi Di Maio
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Welcome to the closing session of Rome MED 2021
MED – MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUES is the annual high-level initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ISPI (Italian Institute for International Political Studies) in Rome with the aim to rethink traditional approaches to the area complementing analyses of current challenges with new ideas and suggestions and to draft a new “positive agenda”, addressing shared challenges at both the regional and the international level.
Launched in 2015, MED has quickly become the global hub for high–level dialogues on the broader Mediterranean engaging prominent leaders of Mediterranean governments, business, civil society, media and academia.
Past editions have brought together more than 1,000 international leaders, including Heads of State and Ministers (among them, the King of Jordan, the Iraqi and Lebanese’s President, Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE, the US Secretary of State, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Envoy for Syria, as well as the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the first Vice-President of the Commission and many others)
For the 7th edition, the Rome MED Dialogues this year will take place in Rome in a hybrid format from the 2nd to the 4th of December. Through both in-person and online panels, dialogues, and forums, it will bring together high-level officials and leaders from the governmental, academic, media, and business sectors together to discuss and share analyses on themes ranging from the security shifts to the prosperity and future of the MENA region.