Mhammedi left Google to complete his MBA and then moved back to Casablanca to co-found Experience Ventures, a group of innovative start-ups operating across different industries in Morocco. The group currently has projects in tourism and education, with more under development. Mhammedi holds a bachelor’s in international relations from Princeton University (2008) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (2014).

He is responsible for valuing upstream assets as well as following the energy markets, fiscal regimes, and future developments in the region. Medina is a member of COMEXI, the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. He is also part of the Energy Workgroup within COMEXI. The group published the report “Mexico and the Energy Revolution,” which was quoted in Mexican President Peña Nieto’s energy reform proposal. Medina holds bachelor’s in economics from the University of Texas – Austin.

fter graduating from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (current Mines ParisTech), Ayoub Mamdouh decided to return to Morocco in order to contribute to the country’s economy. He has since worked in several areas including quantitative finance, human resources, marketing, and strategy consulting at BCG and quantitative research before joining OCP Group. He was selected among 2014’s “Espoirs” and was granted a training session in Harvard Kennedy School on Emerging Leaders. Mamdouh is also a public speaker (TEDx and other events) and has lectured at several Moroccan schools.

Prior to joining the government, she worked for different law firms in Buenos Aires and her own law firm. She focused on commercial, corporate, and anti-trust law while getting her masters in law and economics at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She teaches law at Universidad Nacional de Moreno and Universidad del Salvador.

Carlos León is an economic consultant in the Inter-American Development Bank’s Fiscal and Municipal Management Division in Washington, DC. He focuses on public-private partnerships, fiscal risks, financial instruments, and trust funds for the public sector. Previously, León worked as assistant manager of sub-national public debt at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico. He also worked in the Public Debt Department at the Grupo Financiero Banorte and in the Departments of Economic Research of CEMEX-Mexico and the Central Bank of Mexico at Monterrey.

Michael Leibeck is currently senior policy advisor to Sven Giegold, the financial and economic policy spokesperson of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament. He is responsible for coordinating and advising on multiple legislative processes with an emphasis on EU key reforms. He is involved in negotiating and implementing key financial market regulation and economic governance reforms, and has examined EU–MERCOSUR trade relations and provided policy advice on the EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership.

Sara Kadaoui graduated from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris where she studied economic and political development. After graduating, she joined the international organization Endeavor, which supports high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging countries, as a project manager. Two years later, she joined the Moroccan Endeavor Enterprise M2t, the leading provider of payment services for non-banked populations in Morocco and Senegal. Kadaoui writes about entrepreneurship-related topics as a freelance contributor to Wamda

Jones spent several years as a consultant for U.S. Army operations in Latin America before joining U.S. Africa Command. She serves as a special advisor in the Office of the Deputy Director at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where she leads the development and implementation of strategic initiatives. She served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jones spent several years as a consultant for U.S. Army operations in Latin America before joining U.S. Africa Command.