in loving memory of Tosca Barucco

PROGRAMME

15.00 – 15.10 | OPENING REMARKS 

• Marina Sereni, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy  

15.10 – 16.00 THE MEDITERRANEAN WOMEN MEDIATORS NETWORK: WHAT COMES NEXT? 

Kick-Off Speakers 

Irene Fellin, Head of the Secretariat, Mediterranean Women Mediators Network and President WIIS Italy

May Chidiac, former Minister of State for Administrative Development, Lebanon 

Fatima Gailani, Afghan Peace Negotiator, Afghanistan 

Chair: Loredana Teodorescu, Secretary General, WIIS Italy; Coordinator of the Secretariat, Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks

 Debate with participants  

16.00 – 17.30 | WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT IN THE MENA REGION: UNDERSTANDING THE LINK 

Confirmed Kick-Off Speakers 

Emma Bonino, Senator and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy  

Imen Ben Mohamed,Former Member of the Tunisian Parliament, Tunisia  

Ayşe Betül Çelik, Professor, Sabancı University, Turkey  

Muriel Pénicaud, Permanent Representative of France to the OECD and former Minister of Labour, France 

Chiara Corazza,Private Sector Representative for France within the G20 EMPOWER Alliance, France 

Emanuela Pozzan, Senior Specialist in the Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch, ILO    

Nava Swersky Sofer, Co-Chair, Directors Leading Change, Israel  

Doa Wadi, Executive Director, Business Women Forum, Palestine 

Debate with participants 

Chair: Marta Dassù, Senior Advisor European Affairs and Editor-in-chief of Aspenia, Aspen Institute Italia; President, Women Empower the World – WE, Italy