He has been a university lecturer and is often invited to social media workshops. In 2014, he became the first Cuban to be invited to the International Leadership Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists in the United States. Cárdenas Lema writes a weekly column on politics for the independent Dutch media El Toque and also writes for La Joven Cuba.
He also has been a member of the Reporters Roundtable on ABC News’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and substitute host on The Brian Lehrer Show and The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. Capehart was the deputy editorial page editor of New York Daily News from 2002 to 2004, and served on that newspaper’s editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
He is a member of the Bar in Anguilla, Grenada, Antigua & Barbuda, and Dominica and holds membership in several international professional associations such as the Commercial Bar Association and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Brantley graduated from the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus with a bachelor of laws and from the University of Oxford with a bachelor of civil law. He also attended the Norman Manley Law School where he earned his Legal Education Certificate.
Prior to that, he served four years as head of the economic department in the French embassy in Morocco, as well as being a delegate for the Development Assistance Committee, and the Economic and Development Review Committee for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). He played a key role in the French EU presidency of 2000, contributing to several development initiatives, and was directly involved in European negotiations on development cooperation during his time at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She was also rewarded for her significant contribution to the field with the U.S. Meritorious Service Medal for her extensive work in organizing and implementing the gp160 vaccine therapy efficacy trial from 1990 to 1995. She served as director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1996 to 2005. In March 2011, Dr. Birx also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the African Society for Laboratory Medicine.
She has worked as professor of international law at the University Mohammed V in Rabat; co-president of the High Level Advisory Group on the Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean Area, member of the World Bank’s Council of Advisors for MENA, and as member of the Board of Trustees of ICARDA. She holds a master’s in English studies and a Ph.D. in law from Paris II University.
Dr. Benkhadra has a degree in civil engineering from the Mines de l l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy and a Ph.D. in engineering from the l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. She was the president of the Mineral Industry Federation for nine years until her tenure ended in 2009. She is a member of the Bou Regreg Association, Moroccan Association for Research Development, and vice president of the Association of Engineers for the Mines of Paris, Nancy, and St Etienne.
In February 2015, she was invited to speak at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, and the 2015 United Nation General Assembly “Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism: Communities in Action.” Benalla studied International Relations at Alakhawayan University and Gerogetown University. She holds a master’s of laws in international law from Kent Law School in the U.K. and Brussels School of International Studies in Belgium and a diploma in terrorism studies from St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Bathily has actively contributed to the creation of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF, a unique platform for policy dialogue on key development issues. She organizes thematic workshops for parliamentarians on topics such as trade, climate change, Millennium Development Goals, governance, and natural resource management. She also leads partnership efforts on behalf of the World Bank, providing strategic input to heads of states for major development roundtables in Africa.
Her briefings and publications have addressed state building and conflict, security sector reform, democratic transitions, and the African Union. Prior to joining EUISS, Barrios was senior researcher and EU project manager at ESSEC business school, and researcher at the think tank FRIDE. She has also worked as assistant professor at ESCP Europe and as a researcher at the Carter Center, as a consultant in democracy promotion and electoral observer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among others. Barrios obtained her Ph.D.
