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Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 10:45 to Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 13:30

MED – Mediterranean Dialogues

Rome, Italy

November 22, 2018 – Euro-MED Think Tank Forum

10:45 – 12:15

Breakout Session II 
Economy First : Matching Growth and Social Cohesion

Speakers: 
- Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco
- Awad Ibrahim, Chairman, Libyan Organization of Policies & Strategies, LOOPS, Libya
- Luigi Narbone, Director, Middle East Directions Programme, Robert
- Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute – EUI, European Union

Chair:
-Monika Sie Dhian Ho, General Director, Netherlands Institute of International Relations – Clingendael, Netherlands 

November 23, 2018 – MED Conference

08:30 – 10:00

Seizing the Future: Employing Youth in the MENA Region 
In collaboration with Bruegel, DGAP and OCP Policy Center

Speakers:
- Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel, Belgium
- Adel Abdel Ghafar, Fellow, Brookings Doha Center
- Frank Hagemann, Deputy Regional Director for Arab States, ILO
- Nasser Kamel, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean
- Michael Kohler, Director for the Neighborhood South, Directorate-General Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations, EU

Chair: 
Dina Fakoussa, Head, Middle East and North Africa Program, DGAP

11:30– 12:00

Special Dialogue

Speakers:
- Taro Kono, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco
- Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico Europe 

12:30– 13:30

Plenary “Shared Prosperity”
The Imperative of Growth: The Role of Investments

Speakers:
- Kamel Ghribi, Founder, GK Investment Holding Tunisia
- Bandar M. J. Al Hajjae, President, Islamic Development Bank
- Raya Haffar El Hassan, Chairwoman, Tripoli Special Economic Zone and Former Minister of Finance, Lebanon
- Pierre Heilbronn, Vice-President, Policy and Partnerships, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Marie Françoise Marie-Nelly, Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank

Chair: 
- Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center

 

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About the Speakers :

  • Karim El Aynaoui

    Karim El Aynaoui is Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He is also Managing Director of OCP Policy Center, a think tank based in Rabat and serves as advisor to the CEO and Chairman of OCP Group, a global leader in the phosphate sector. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at Bank Al-Maghrib, the Central Bank of Morocco. He was the Director of Economics and International Relations, where he provided strategic leadership in defining and supporting monetary policy analysis and strategy. He was also in charge of the Statistical and International Relations Divisions of the Central Bank, led the research division and was a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Before joining Bank Al-Maghrib, Karim El Aynaoui worked for eight years at the World Bank, both in its Middle Eastern and North Africa, and Africa regions as an economist. He has published papers, books and articles in scientific journals on macroeconomic issues in developing countries. Recently, he co-authored a book outlining a growth strategy for Morocco and was the guest editor of a special issue on food price volatility in Oxford Economic Papers. Karim El Aynaoui is a board member of the OCP Foundation, a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and a member of the COP22 Scientific Committee. He also participates in the Malabo-Montpellier Panel. Karim El Aynaoui holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bordeaux, where he taught for three years courses in statistics and economics.

  • Abdelhak Bassou

    Abdelhak Bassou is a Senior Fellow at OCP Policy Center who focuses on Security Studies and Strategies and Defense. He occupied several offices within the Directorate General of the Moroccan National Security where he was Borders’ Division Chief from 1978 to 1993. He was the former Director of the Royal Institute of Police in 1998. He also served as the Chief of Regional Security (Errachidia 1999-2003, Sidi Kacem 2003-2005) and was also Head of the Central General Intelligence from 2006 to 2009.
    He also contributed to the output of several international organizations endeavors including the Council of Arab Interior Ministers from 1986 to 1992, where he represented the Directorate General of National Security in several meetings. Abdelhak Bassou holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and International Studies from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Agdal in Rabat.