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Abdelaaziz Ait Ali, Head of Department, Research in Economics, Policy Center for the New South

Biography

Ayoub Mamdouh, CEO, OCP Solutions

Ayoub Mamdouh is a Quantitative Modeling and Business Strategy consultant interested in tackling Business Transformation issues with Strategic, Digital and Analytics tool as well Behavioral and Change Management approaches. He holds a Msc. From Mines ParisTech and an Executive MBA from Africa Business School, and is currently CEO of OCP Solutions, an African consulting company with a specific expertise in Modeling, Analytics & Digital. Ayoub is also a lecturer on Business Strategy and Game Theory at EMINES School of Management and Public Speaker at Moroccan Universities and TEDx conferences.

Juan Diego Mujica Filippi, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Sustainability Center, Universidad de Lima

Juan Diego is a Peruvian legal scholar interested in studying purpose driven companies and designing legal frameworks for them to thrive and contribute to the SDGs. He holds and LL.M. from Harvard Law School where he specialized in for-benefit organizations and corporate responsibility. Juan Diego serves as the academic coordinator of the international research project “Purpose-driven companies and the regulation of the fourth sector in Ibero-America”, sponsored by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the International Research Development Centre (IDRC). He is also the academic lead of the “Legal Innovation for Sustainable Development” project at Universidad de Lima’s Sustainability Center, where he also teaches Corporate Law.

Ahmed Ouhnini, Economist, Policy Center for the New South

Ahmed Ouhnini is an agroeconomist engineer specialized in development studies. He graduated from the National School of Agriculture in Meknes in 2014 and holds a Master degree in law, economics and management from the Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies in Paris. Ahmed Ouhnini is an alumnus of the U.S State Department Middle East Partnership Initiative and a member of the Entrepreneurial Action Us initiative (Enactus) alumni network. He began his professional career in the field of consulting then in socioeconomic research at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) before joining the Policy Center For the New South (PCNS) in 2019 as a research assistant in economics where he currently lead reflections on rural and agricultural policies in Africa and public policy subjects.

Lilia Rizk, Manager- Emerging Leaders Unit, Policy Center for the New South

For the past 7 years, Lilia Rizk has worked at the Policy Center for the New South, first as a Program Officer, where she managed international partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa, France, the UK the United States, and designed international relations programs and events. She is now the Manager of the Emerging Leaders Unit and Program Coordinator for the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders Program, a young leadership program that brings together, on an annual basis, 40 to 50 rising stars from around professionals the Atlantic and across Africa who have a strong sense of commitment to social and economic issues facing their communities in particular and the world in general. This platform aims to connect and enhance cooperation between high-potential change makers who want to contribute to shaping the regional and global agenda in politics, finance, business, civil society and more. Through this initiative, the Policy Center contributes to intergenerational dialogue during the Atlantic Dialogues conference and beyond, the transformation of the South by its youth, and training the leaders of tomorrow. Lilia obtained a dual degree in Political Science and International Development from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Master’s degree at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane in International Relations and Diplomacy.

Laila Slassi, Founding Partner, Africa Advisors

Laila is a founding Partner at Afrique Advisors, an legal and tax advisory firm based in Casablanca, the exclusive correspondent of Mayer Brown in Morocco. She was previously a lawyer at the Paris Bar, where she specialized in the tax structuring of high-value cross-border transactions. 

Laila's practice focuses on asset acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring in a wide range of industrial and financial sectors. She regularly advises on private equity, energy and infrastructure, international trade law and international litigation. She coordinated complex multidisciplinary projects involving financial, corporate and tax law. She regularly advises multinational or national companies in the context of their operations in Morocco. 

She also actively participates in various civil society initiatives aimed at strengthening national regulations in favor of employment, entrepreneurship and startups. She is the vice president of the EFE association, an NGO with the mission to Empower youth in Morocco with demand-driven skills that lead to employment, dignity and hope. She is also a member of the board of We Speak Citizen, an NGO with the ambition to open up the rural world through economic inclusion and the co-construction of territorial development.