46 young professionals from 4 continents to join the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders (ADEL) network
Marrakech, December 10th 2018
Young, bright, hard-working and following their Atlantic dreams… A new cohort of 46 young professionals is arriving from 25 countries in Morocco for workshops on December 11th and 12th, before the start of the high level Atlantic Dialogues conference (December 13-15), to which they will participate fully.
The Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders (ADEL) program convenes yearly a community of 40 to 50 rising professionals, joining a growing network of 250 experts, researchers, entrepreneurs, civil servants or NGO professionals.
Instead of doing things « for » the youth in order to shape the future, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) seeks to work with young people of today and make sure they have a seat at the table now.
Atlantic excellency rooted in Morocco
Over 3000 young professionals have applied this year, versus 1000 last year, a sign of the growing outreach of the program and its culture of an Atlantic excellency rooted in Morocco. Aged from 23 to 35, Emerging Leaders are selected on their initiative abilities, leadership potential, vision and will to reinforce transatlantic links.
The AD 2018 Emerging Leaders count 22 women and 24 men, with a total of 17 Africans (of which 6 North-Africans), 11 Europeans, 9 Latin Americans and Caribbeans and 9 North-Americans. They mostly come from the private sector (13), think tanks and academia (11), but also from NGOs (10), public sector (7) and international organizations (4).
To name just a few, Ana Barufi, Research and Innovation Manager at Bradesco Bank (Brazil) will follow the program with Davi Miller, Partnerships Manager, Facebook (USA) and Jacob Ouma, Managing Director, Admedia Communications Ltd (Kenya).
Consult ADEL 2018 Biographies Here
Coming as far as Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Italy, Norway, Poland, Argentina, Jamaica and the USA, among other, they will gather for 2 days in Benguerir, at the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University, near Marrakech.
Coached by high level experts and AD speakers
Leadership, entrepreneurship and design thinking will be on their agenda, with valuable coaches such as the renowned design thinker Abe Mabogunje, (Stanford University, USA), and some of the most outstanding AD speakers.
Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Nigerian Minister of Education, founder of Bring Back Our Girls and Senior Economic Advisor to the African Economic Development Policy Initiative, will talk about education and good governance.
Bruno Boccara, founder of Socio-Analytic Dialogue, former lead economist at the World Bank and Director at Standard & Poor's, will explain how to incorporate psychosocial dynamics into public policies.
Last but not least, four speakers, among which Enuma Okoro (Journalist, The Guardian Nigeria) and Richard Lui (news Anchor at MSNBC, USA), will engage with them on « Gender, Race and Culture : Social Responsibility in the 21th century ».
Intergenerational dialogue
The aim of the ADEL program is to build a community, before, during and after the conference. Hence, Alumni are provided with opportunities throughout the year. For instance, former ADEL Eniola Mafe and Youssef Kobo have spoken during an event in Abuja this year. Ten Alumni took part in the Paris Peace Forum last November. Eric Ntumba, a banker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (ADEL 2017), contributed in writing to our next report Atlantic Currents, to be presented on December 13th at the start of AD 2018.
Throughout the conference, the new cohort will be able to engage with their elders and present their ideas during « 5 minutes pitches ». The closing Plenary Session of AD 2018, on December 15th, will be dedicated to them, as each year.
Press contacts
Lilia Rizk, Program Manager, Policy Center for the New South Lilia.rizk@ocppc.ma +212 (0) 6 66 93 89 06
Sabine Cessou, Research Fellow, Policy Center for the New South s.Cessou@ocppc.ma + 33 (0) 6 70 87 20 05
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About Policy Center for the New South
Formerly known as OCP Policy Center, the PCNS is a Moroccan think tank launched in 2014 in Rabat, with 39 associate fellows from the South and the North. Through a Southern perspective on the main questions at stake for developing countries, it aims at helping strategic decisions processes through 4 research programs : agriculture, environment ans food security ; economics and social development ; raw material economics and finance ; geopolitics and international relations. www.policycenter.ma