Yana Abu Taleb is the Jordan Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Yana leads EcoPeace activities concerning the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and our Good Water Neighbors and Water Energy Nexus projects. Yana supervises international project development, liaising with and lobbying government and private sector figures and organizations on regional policy issues related to environmental protection

Abla Abdel Latif is currently the Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council for Economic Development, and the Executive Director and Director of Research of The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES). She is also a Member of the Central Bank of Egypt’s Coordinating Council and has been a Board Member of the National Bank of

Hoda Abdel-Hamid is an award-winning roving correspondent for Al Jazeera English. She has reported for Al Jazeera from across the Middle East, Europe and North Africa. Hoda has also received several prestigious awards during her career as a broadcast journalist, including one at the Festival du film de Monaco and three Emmy Awards. 

Ehab Abdulgader has been Director and COO of PetroGas since January 2016, with the responsibility of measuring effectiveness and efficiency of business processes, both internally and externally, to develop and implement growth strategies to improve the success of PetroGas and its partners. His main tasks include identifying and raising capital to foster the growth of

Franco Accordino is Head of the “Investment in High-Capacity Networks” Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), where he leads initiatives supporting the deployment of very high-capacity broadband networks across the EU. He previously headed the “Knowledge Management and Innovative Systems” Unit, developing advanced digital solutions in areas

Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS University of London. He has degrees in Philosophy (ESL, Beirut), Social Sciences (UL, Beirut) and a PhD in Social History/International Relations (University of Paris-VIII). Before joining SOAS in 2007, he taught and/or researched various universities and research centers in Beirut, Berlin and Paris.

Varsen Aghabekian is a Palestinian politician and academic. On 31 March 2024, she was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates by the Palestinian Authority, becoming the first person of Armenian descent to hold a ministerial position in the government. On 23 June 2025, she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates