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Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation. Responsible for developing State policy in the sphere of public debt, management of State financial assets, cooperation with the IMF, Multilateral Development Banks, G20. Previously he held the following positions: Deputy Chairman of the Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR, Director of Division in the Ministry of Finance. He also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Second secretary of the USSR Permanent Mission to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva. He graduated from MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, specializing in international economic relations.

President of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Regional Council, Morocco. He is also President of the United Regions Organization (ORU Fogar). Before this, he was Treasurer of the Association of Moroccan Regions (ARM). He was also President of the working group “Economic Development” of the International Association of Francophone Regions (AIRF). He is a graduate of both the Moroccan National School of Architecture and of ISCAE, Rabat, Morocco.

President, CGEM. He was Director and CEO of the Spanish company TAVEX. He served as Chairman of the Moroccan Association of Textile and Apparel Industries for two years and as Chairman of the Textile and Leather Federation within the CGEM. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Industry, Trade, and Restructuring of the Economy. He served as Minister of  Economy and Finance and as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He is also co-manager of CTC Maroc, Senior Advisor to the AfBD, Senior Advisor to the Fond Africa 50.

Director for the Maghreb, the Maghreb Union and the African Union Affairs. Deputy Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations headquarters in New York. He held the same position in Geneva in 2007. In 2005, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the UN in New York. In 2000, he joined the National Steering Committee for Nuclear Affairs. He was appointed Deputy Governor of the Kingdom of Morocco to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  

Chairman Economic Diplomacy Commission, South Africa and South/South Africa, CGEM. After studying finance, Laaziz Kadiri began her career in entrepreneurship and consulting in Morocco, the Middle East and Africa. He then founded LK invest and collaborated with many African states in the implementation of structuring projects. He chairs the Economic Diplomacy Commission, South Africa and South-South Africa within the CGEM.  

Ambassador of Hungary to the Kingdom of Morocco since 2015. Prior to this, he was Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Hungary in Rabat after serving as Deputy Head of Mission. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, he first served as Protocol Officer and then as Senior counsellor for Australia and New-Zealand at the Department for Asia and Pacific Region. Mr. Tromler – prior to his diplomatic carrier – had an international private sector background experience and also had been a professional sportsman. He graduated with an Executive MBA from Corvinus University Budapest and owns a Master Professional of Management, International Economics, Sport Economics from the Université Aix-Marseille II.

Alexandre Medvedowsky is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, holder of a DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in Macroeconomics (Paris 1) and a former student of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Denis Diderot Class, 1984-1986). From 1998 to 2001 he was an associate professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, and he taught at the IEP in Paris until 2006. He was a councillor of the Bouches-du-Rhône from 1998 to March 2015. He was named a Councillor of State in July 2001 and joined ESL & Network Holding that same year, serving on the Board of Directors. In 2005, he was named President of ESL & Network France and was named Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2013. One year later, he was elected president of SYNFIE, the French syndicate for economic intelligence.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to the Kingdom of Morocco since August 2014. Prior to this, she was Ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Deputy Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Serbia to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), President of the Working Group for the cooperation with OIF. She was a professor at the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Head of the Serbian delegation and Permanent Representative to UNESCO-WHC and Special Envoy to IHRA.

Manager of the Department in charge of State Owned Enterprises and Privatization at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is a member of the National Commission of Corporate Governance. He represents the State as a shareholder in several Public State Owned Enterprises Boards and Boards’ committees. He is Chairman of the Inter Ministerial Committee of the Public-Private Partnership and Chairman of the Permanent Committee of the National Accounting Council. He is a lecturer at high institutes such as International University of Rabat, Moroccan Institute of Board members, and High Institute of Administration. He is a graduate in Business Management from the University of Casablanca. He holds the second certificate in Economics from the University of Rabat and a Diploma of the 3rd cycle of the National School of Public Administration of Rabat.

Wali, Director general of local governments at the Ministry of Interior. Prior to this, he was Wali of the Greater Casablanca region, of the Casablanca-Settat region and Secretary-General to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. After serving as Director of compensation and pensions, Director of Modernisation, Resources and Information system at the General Treasury of the Kingdom, and Chargé de mission at the Office of the Minister of Finance and Foreign Investments, he was appointed governor in the Al-Fida-Mers-Sultan district prefecture, then governor in the prefecture of the Casablanca-Anfa district in 2006. He is also President of the Alumni association of the Ecole Polytechnique (X-Maroc). He also served as President of the Association marocaine de prospective.  

Vice President for Academic Affairs at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. After teaching for 10 years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he joined Al Akhawayn University in January 2010, first as an Associate Professor in International Studies, before he was appointed Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in June 2012. He is the author of academic articles in English, French and Portuguese in various IR journals. He is the author with João Pontes Nogueira of Teoria das Relações Internacionais: Correntes e Debates, which is in its 10th Edition, and the editor of a forthcoming volume with L.H.M. Ling and Arlene B. Tickner, International Relations Theory: Views Beyond the West. He holds a Phd in International Studies from the University of Miami, Florida.

Entrepreneur and founder of New Work Lab, an innovation lab for entrepreneurs, students and corporations. She develops new creative models in education and has created startup accelerators and coworking spaces in Morocco. She just started a career accelerator that aims at empowering employees and develop their intrapreneurial mindset: School of Changes. She is a disruptive thinker who is committed to the economic and social development of Morocco.  Before NWL launching, Fatim Zahra Biaz worked for a few years as a change manager consultant in Paris. She graduated from Edhec Business School and Harvard Kennedy School.

Economist on the Korea/Sweden desk of the Economics Department at OECD. She previously worked in the Structural Policy Analysis Division of the same Department at OECD, at the French Ministry of Labour and at the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) in the Short-Term Economic Analysis and in the Economic Studies Departments. Her research interests focus on the subjects of international trade, external imbalances, labour market and digitalization. Presently, she is finishing her PhD in Economics at the Université Paris-Dauphine.

After 11 years working in investment banking, from 2000 until 2008 Eduardo Queiroz dedicated his career to improve the lives of children and families in different countries by serving as an Instructor, Executive Director and Counselor of Outward Australia, Outward Bound Brazil and Outward Bound Mexico. From 2009 to 2011, Eduardo acted as the Special Advisor to the Secretary of Education of the State of São Paulo. Subsequently, from 2011 until October 2018, Eduardo led the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation in Brazil as the Chief Executive Officer. In the past 5 years, he has also served as a volunteer member of the Board of United Way Brazil, ESPRO and Outward Bound Brazil. Eduardo holds a degree in Business Administration, a Specialization in Finance from Getúlio Vargas Foundation, as well as a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he was a Mason and Lemann fellow.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EON, which aims at pioneering the future of connected and circular fashion with a global Internet of Things framework for Digital Identity and embedded RFID technology. Before launching EON, she was the Senior Vice President of Global Business Development at Delos, a technology and real estate start-up. After supporting the launch of Delos’ International WELL Building Institute in the US, she lead the global expansion of WELL Building Standard through strategic partnerships in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Delos, she worked at Jonathan Rose Companies where she consulted on smart cities and urban design and development. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Georgetown University.

Director of the Centre for Learning Resources in Pune, India. He has run banking businesses around the world; run and set up residential and day schools; been a nonprofit manager; coached senior corporate and non-corporate executives in enhancing personal and organizational effectiveness; worked with and coached management teams, parents and teachers of educational institutions; and provided strategy advice to for-profit and nonprofit organizations. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Srinagar and a PGDM from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South. Mhammed Dryef has held several responsibility positions including: Chief of staff at the Ministry of the Interior, Governor Director of the Casablanca Urban Agency, Director General for National Security, Director General for Urban Planning and Territorial Planning, Wali- Director General for Interior Affairs, and Wali of Fez, Casablanca, and Laayoune. In addition, Mhammed Dryef has published a book on urbanization in Morocco as well as various studies on decentralization,  regionalization, and the evaluation of public policies. He holds a PHD in Public Law from the University of Grenoble, a diploma from the National School of Public Administration and a post graduate diploma in private law.

Vice Dean of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South. He is President of the Moroccan Association of Agricultural Economics and associate member of the General Council of Agricultural Development of Morocco. Prof. Doukkali performed several consultancies with the Ministry of Agriculture of Morocco, and national and international organizations (World Bank, FAO, UNDP) and several Mediterranean and African countries. Prof. Doukkali collaborates with several national research institutions, such as INRA-Morocco, and with international research institutions, such as CIHEAM, CIRAD, CEMAFREF, IFPRI and ICARDA.

Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the United Arab Emirates. He joined the Federal Government in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, and was later appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. He was Chairman of the National Elections Committee, Chairman of the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Al Owais Cultural Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA). He received his Ph.D. from King’s College, Cambridge and holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Political Science from George Washington University.

Professor of quantitative methods and social economics at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, an economist, as well as Senior Fellow at OCP Policy Center who focuses on Applied econometrics, labor market, economics of education and development economics. He is also the director of GRES (Economic and Social Research Group) at the same university. His research focuses on econometric methodologies applied to social sciences (labor economics, economics of education and Development). Mr. Ibourk’s doctoral thesis looks into the “Contribution to Econometrics through the Labor Market Matching Process: Macro and Microeconometric Approaches to the Moroccan Labor Market.”

Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and former Professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat. He is a founding member of the Centre Marocain de Conjoncture and of the Groupement d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Méditerrannée. He is a member of the Research Group within the Euro-Mediterranean Universities Networks. He acted as Adviser to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Economy and Finance. He acts as independent expert to the Moroccan Competition Council and the Moroccan Authority for the fight against Corruption. He wrote various publications about economic and social development and international economic relations.

Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South. Jamal Machrouh is professor of international relations at the National School of Business and Management, Ibn Toufaïl University, Kénitra and Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, formerly OCP Policy Center, where he focuses on Geopolitics and International Relations issues. Mr. Machrouh is lecturer at the Royal College of Advanced Military Studies of Kénitra and at Södertörn University of Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of a book titled Justice and Development under World Trade Organization and of various articles dealing with international relations and geopolitics.

Austrian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco. He served as an Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Austrian Representation to the OSCE in preparation and during the Austrian chairmanship of the OSCE in 2017. He held positions at the Austrian Embassies in Norway, Spain and Hungary. He also worked at the Austrian Permanent Representation with the EU and held several positions at the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He holds a degree in Business Administration and International Economics from the University of Economics, Vienna, as well as the Diploma from the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna.

Member of the French Parliament, Representing the Hauts-de-Seine department since june 2017. He was Associate Professor at the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) between 2002 and 2015 and Member of the European Parliament between 1989 and 2007. He was Chief Counsellor at the French Court of Audit and Senior Auditor at the French Court of Audit. He graduated from the Ecole nationale d’administration. He received an Advanced degree in Contemporary Literature and also graduated from the Institut d’Études politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po).