Category: Invited guests

Enterprise Director at the Chamber of Commerce French Riviera. Former General Delegate at France Chine 2000, Managing Director at Territoires, consulting firm specializing in economic strategy.

Founder and President of ACRI, company specializing in modeling and study cases on environment.

Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kazakhstan, founder of PROMSTAN Asia (Kazakhstan), Founding President of PROMVOST (Russia), Managing Director of PROMEST/COOPINVEST. Former Managing Director of TECHNOFI.

Director General of the Directorate General Communications and Language Services at the European Central Bank. Former Partner and Managing Director in the Brunswick Group.

Director of the cabinet of the Prime Minister of Lebanon. Professor at the Lebanese University and the Center of Technology of the Lebanese French University, Head of the Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (CESMO).

Chairman of the American Lebanese Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Lebanon). He is also the Owner, President and CEO of Zeenni’s Trading Agency. He served among others as Chairman of The AmCham MENA Regional Council, Chairman of the Children’s Cancer Center in Lebanon, President of the Lebanese American Businessmen Association (LABA). He graduated from Saint Joseph University (USJ), Beirut.

Historian of medieval China, member of the Institut de France, professor and former director of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (2004-2014). He has taught the history of Chinese religions in France, the United States, and China. Since 2014 he has served as director of the EFEO Hong Kong Centre and senior research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Chinese religion and regional history. His latest book, Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China, is forthcoming from the Harvard University Press in early 2019. His current interests are focused on the break-up of the Tang empire and the role of military and religious elites in the Tang-Five Dynasties transition in the tenth century.

Ambassador of the Principality of Monaco to France. Previously, she served as Government Advisor for Finance and Economy (2009-2011). She held various positions within the administration of Monaco such as Director General of the Finance and Economy Department (2005-2009), Director of the Budget and the Treasury (1999-2005). She graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), Paris.

Ambassador and French Interministerial Delegate for the Mediterranean. He began his career at the French Embassy in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in 1982 and was later posted to the Permanent Mission of France to the UN in New York (1984-1988). He was Diplomatic Adviser to Minister Bernard Kouchner, Minister of State attached to the Prime Minister with responsibility for humanitarian action (1988-1992). He also served as Technical Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Private Office with responsibility for Africa and the Middle East (1997-2002), Ambassador to Monaco (2002-2007), Deputy Director of the Private Office of Dr Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs (2007-2008).

Board member of EFG Bank (Monaco). He is also President of the Brotherhood of Pammakaristos, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He served among others as vice director of American Express (Athens), vice director of American Express Bank (Paris), general manager of American Express Bank (Monaco), and senior vice president and general manager of E.F.G. Bank (Monaco). He graduated from the University of Thessaloniki, the University of Room and from Victoria University of Manchester.

Minister of State of the Principality of Monaco. Previously, he served as a member of the High Court of the Principality of Monaco (2007-2010). He also held the positions of Advisor in charge of Education and Research to the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (2002-2005). He was a lawyer at Poitiers Bar until 1974 and he taught at the Law Faculty of Poitiers until 1986. He graduated in private law and criminal sciences and he holds a PhD in private law.

Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, President Emeritus and Counselor of the Israel Institute (Washington and Tel Aviv), and a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv. He served as Ambassador of Israel to the United States and Chief Negotiator with Syria in the mid-1990s, and as the President of Tel Aviv University (1999-2007). Prof. Rabinovich has been a member of Tel Aviv University’s faculty since 1971. He co-authored a book with Itai Brun, Israel Facing a New Middle East: In Search of a National Security Strategy (Hoover Institution Press, 2017). The same year, he published the biography of Yitzhak Rabin (Yale University Press). In 2023, he published Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs, and the Region, 1948 – 2022 (Brookings Institution Press).

Director General of the Foreign Relations Department of Monaco since 2008. Previously, she served as Director of Legal Affairs, Monaco (2006-2008). She also held various positions within the Department of Finance and Economy (1995-2006) such as technical advisor, chargé de mission and officer. She graduated from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

Ambassador of Greece in France since 2013. He served among others as Permanent Representative of Greece to UNESCO, Director of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the President (2005-2010), Consul General of Greece in Milan (2002-2005), Deputy Head of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the Foreign Minister (2000-2002). He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1982. He graduated from the University of Athens, Tufts University and Harvard.

President of the National Council of the Principality of Monaco since 2013. He is also President of the Monaco Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He is a member of several commissions: Finance and National Economy, Foreign Relations, Education and Youth. He served as President of the Legislation Commission of the National Council. He graduated in law from the University of Paris II Assas.

Former Ambassador of Switzerland to France (2002-2007). He joined the Foreign Service in 1971. He held several positions such as Ambassador to Guatemala and to other States of Central America, Head of the Swiss Delegation to UNESCO, Ambassador to the United Kingdom,  Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the international organizations in Geneva and chairman of FN Conseil. He contributes regularly to the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. He studied law and international relations at the University of Fribourg and the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva.

Ambassador of the Order of Malta to Monaco since 2010. He was first named Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Order of Malta to Monaco in 2007. In 2006 he established Marco Research S.A.M. He was President and CEO of Festival Management S.A.M. (1999-2004), a Senior Advisor with Stanley Associates Inc. (1994-1998). During his 31-year career as a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State in Washington, he held top management and supervisory positions at US diplomatic missions throughout the world and as well as at the Department of State in Washington.

Vice-President at UBIFRANCE. He is President at Car’Flow, and President and Founder of European TK’Blue Agency, JKPM, and Cercle pour l’Optimodalité en Europe. Since 1979, he has established several industrial or service-providing companies on an international level. He graduated from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (France) and from ENSAIA, the National Higher Agricultural Engineering and Food Industry School of Nancy.

President of the Board of Institute for Strategic Studies since 2007. Previously, she held the position of Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies (2004-2007). She also served as a columnist in “Dziennik Polski”, Krakow (1990-2003). She is the author of numerous publications concerning foreign policy and international security. She graduated from Jagiellonian University – Institute of Political Science and International Relations.

Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini India. Prior to assuming this role in January 2011, she was the Global Delivery Officer for Capgemini Outsourcing. She has over 2 decades experience in the IT services industry and has worked in both multinationals and pure-play companies. She has worked out of Europe and North America and continues to travel extensively meeting customers, analysts and Capgemini staff, getting a pulse of customer expectations and market direction.

Secretary-General of the Economic and Social Council of Monaco since 1999. Previously, she served as Chief Secretary of the Economic and Social Council of Monaco. She also held the position of officer in the Lands Administration Department and of Supervisor in the Habitat Department. She is the Founder of Femmes Leaders Mondiales – Women and Violence Department. She holds a PhD in law.

Consul General of the Republic of Turkey in Marseille (France) since 2012. She held various positions in the diplomatic missions of Turkey abroad such as First Secretary and then Advisor at the Embassy of Turkey in Roma (2005-2009), Third and then Second Secretary at the Embassy of Turkey in Paris (2000-2003), attaché and then Third Secretary at the Embassy of Turkey in Beijing (1998-2000). She graduated from the University of Marmara and Sapienza University, Roma.

President of the Association of Honorary Consuls of Monaco since 2009. He is also CEO of M1 Real Estate, CEO of Façonnable and Executive Director of M1 Group. From 1995 onwards, he has settled in Monaco and managed the group’s European activities. In 1996, he becomes Honorary Consul of Lebanon in Monaco. He graduated in Finance from Boston University, Massachusetts.

Consultant and political analyst, Director of the French website expression-publique.com. He is currently in charge of the column “En quête d’opinion” of the French newspaper Nouvel Observateur and Founding President of Paradox’Opinion, consulting firm specializing in public affairs. He was Director of Political Studies at IFOP. He took part in the collective work “Le dictionnaire du vote” (PUF).  He contributes regularly to the French newspaper Le Monde since 2001. He graduated from IEP Paris.

President of the Foreign Relations Commission of the National Council of Monaco. He is a member of several commissions: Finance and National Economy, Education and Youth, Housing. Since 1997, he is an independent telecommunication consultant. Among others, he held the position of Managing Director of Monaco Téléport and Chief Financial Officer of the Office des Téléphones de Monaco. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne.

Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to France since 2012. Previously, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of Europe and America (2011-2012), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of Europe (2009-2011), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of Education and Research (2008-2009). He was also Ambassador to Belgium, Italy and Malta. He started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981. He graduated from the University of Tehran and the University of Lille (France).