Rome MED 2021
SPEAKERS
Almotaz Abadi
Deputy Secretary General-Ambassador
Abla Abdel Latif
Executive Director and Director of Research
Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Secretary-General
Tareq Abu Hamed
Executive Director, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
Djime Adoum
High Representative
Rumaitha Al Busaidi
Middle East Climate Strategist, Oman
Nayef Falah Mubarak Al Hajraf
Secretary General
Shaikha Alanoud Al Thani
Deputy CEO, Qatar Financial Centre
Mahdi Rasheed Al-Hamdani
Minister of Water resources, Iraq
Reem Ebrahim Al-Hashimi
Minister of State for International Cooperation
Muawiya Khaled Muhammad Al-Radaydah
Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dlawer Ala’aldeen
Founding President
Ranj Alaaldin
Director, Research Fellow
José Manuel Albares
Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation
Haya Aljadoua
Advisor of the Secretary General, World Muslim League
John R. Allen
President, The Brookings Institution, USA
Ibrahim Saad Almojel
CEO, Saudi Industrial Development Fund
Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Negotiations, GCC
Haizam Amirah-Fernández
Senior Analyst
Niels Annen
Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany
Antonio Argenziano
President, Young European Federalists
Ali Aslan
International TV presenter and Journalist
Canan Atilgan
Head of the Department of Middle East and North Africa
Shaddad Attili
Former Minister of Water
Emaddedin Badi
Advisor for Libya, DCAF
Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo
Secretary General, OPEC
Alpha Barry
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, African Integration and Burkinabe abroad, Burkina Faso
Evarist Bartolo
Minister for European and Foreign Affairs, Malta
Kehkashan Basu
Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation
Traian Chebeleu
Deputy Secretary General, Permanent International Secretariat, PERMIS
Hafed Belhadj
Chief procurement officer, Philip Morris International
Leila Benali
Minister of Energetic Transition and Sustainable Development
Benedetta Berti
Head, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO
Fatih Birol
Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Josep Borrell
High Representative For Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Union
Abdallah Bou Habib
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants
Mary Burce Warlick
Deputy Executive Director, IEA
Andrea Cabrini
Managing Editor
Natalina Cea
Head of Mission
Andrea Cellino
Head, North Africa Desk at the Middle East and North Africa Division, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)
Riccardo Chartroux
Nikos Christodoulides
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus
Andrey Chuprygin
Senior Lecturer, HSE University, Russia
James Cleverly
Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa, UK
Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria
Director
Lorenzo Cremonesi
Corriere della Sera
Maria Cuffaro
Galip Dalay
Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow; Associate Fellow; Doctoral researcher
Fadi Daou
Executive Director
Staffan De Mistura
Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara
Stefano Del Col
Former Head of Mission and Force Commander
Emanuela Del Re
EU Special Envoy to Sahel
Claudio Descalzi
Chief Executive Officer
Luigi Di Maio
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Francesca Di Mauro
Head, Sahel Division, European Commission
Noemi Di Segni
President
Manlio Di Stefano
Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Ishac Diwan
Professor, Director of Research
Mario Draghi
President of the Council of Ministers, Italy
Riccardo Dutto
Managing Director – Global Head of Infrastructure, Intesa Sanpaolo
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Youssef El Khalil
Minister of Finance, Republic of Lebanon
Najla El Mangoush
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Alaa M. Elaroush
Founder and CEO of Perpetual Peace Foundation, Libya
Zaid Eyadat
Professor and Director
Cornel Feruţă
State Secretary for Global Affairs and Diplomatic Strategies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania
Mary Fitzgerald
Non-Resident Scholar, Middle East Institute
Florence Gaub
Director
Paolo Gentiloni
Commissioner for Economy
Mircea Geoana
Deputy Secretary General, NATO
Ellie Geranmayeh
Deputy Director and Senior Policy Fellow
Maria Gianniti
RAI
Gordan Grlić-Radman
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
Rafael Mariano Grossi
Director General
Lorenzo Guerini
Minister of Defence, Italy
Adel Hamaizia
Associate Fellow, MENA Programme
Othman Jerandi
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad
Ibrahim Kalın
Spokesperson, Presidency of the Republic of Turkey
Nasser Kamel
Secretary General
Azza Karam
Secretary General, Religions for Peace
Margaret Karram
President, Focolare Movement
Kristina Kausch
Senior Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
Amy Kellogg
Fox News
Gilles Kepel
Professor, PSL Paris Science et Lettre – École normale Supérieure and Università della Svizzera italiana
Dareen Khalifa
Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group
Lina Khatib
Director
Khaled Khiari
Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, United Nations
Sven Koopmans
Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process
Andrey Kortunov
Director, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Russian Federation
Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam
Coordinator of the Sector of “Ecology and Creation”, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Holy See
Francesco La Camera
Director-General
Maria Latella
Sky TG24
Luca Lazzaroli
Director General, Deputy Head of Operation, EIB
Timothy Lenderking
U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen
Anže Logar
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia
Giacomo Luciani
Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
Monica Maggioni
Director, TG 1
Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
Professor of International Law, Tunis
Riyad Malki
Special Envoy of the President Abbas & Adviser for International Affairs
Hassoumi Massoudou
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Giampiero Massolo
President
Joseph McMonigle
Secretary General
Miloud Medjelled
Director, Ministry of Energy and Miles, Algeria
Tarek Megerisi
Senior Policy Fellow
Karim Mezran
Director, Resident Senior Fellow
Marcello Minenna
Director, Italian Customs Agency
Maurizio Molinari
Editor in Chief, La Repubblica
Enrico Molinaro
President; Secretary General
Miguel Ángel Moratinos
High Representative, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
Blanca Moreno-Dodson
Director
Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak
Minister Foreign and Expatriates Affairs
Stefano Napoletano
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Alfredo Nunzi
Acting Deputy Executive Director Governance, Europol
Vural Ocali
ARKAS Holding
Yacine El-Mahdi Oualid
Minister of Knowledge Economy and Startups
Geir O. Pedersen
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria
Fabio Petito
Senior Associate Research Fellow
Sérgio Pimenta
Regional Vice President for Africa, IFC
Mariangela Pira
Anchor and Reporter, SkyTg24
Qu Dongyu
Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Ernesto Ottone Ramirez
Assistant Director General , UNESCO
Stefano Ravagnan
Special Envoy for Syria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Francesco Rocca
President
José Sabadell
Head, European Union Delegation to Libya
Ayman Safadi
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
Ghassan Salamé
Former Special Representative for Libya; Professor of International Relations
Augusto Santos Silva
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Portugal
Marta Serafini
Journalist
Marina Sereni
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Dina Shoman
Co-founder, Verity
Biliana Sirakova
Youth Coordinator, European Commission
Randa Slim
Director, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute, USA
Michael Spindelegger
Director General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development
Enrica Toninelli
RAI
Ugo Tramballi
Senior Advisor
Sinan Ülgen
Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Europe
Olivér Varhélyi
Commissioner, Neighbourhood and Enlargement, European Commission
Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen
Deputy Secretary-General
Claudio Viezzoli
Managing Director, EBRD
António Vitorino
Director General, International Organization for Migration – IOM
Thomas Volk
Director, Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean
Miroslaw Wachowski
Under-Secretary for the Relations with States, the Holy See
William F. Wechsler
Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and Middle East Programs
Stephanie Williams
Former Special Adviser on Libya
Maha Yahya
Director
Vivian Yee
Cairo Bureau Chief
Zhai Jun
Special Envoy on the Middle East, China