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Gina Jones

Special Advisor, Defense Intelligence Agency, USA

Gina Jones 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.

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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. She played a critical role in instantiating socio-cultural analysis into operational planning, and her efforts directly shaped the command’s security cooperation activities with African partner-nations. Jones has advanced degrees from Boston University, the University of Kansas, and the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies.

Sara Kadaoui

Project Management & Business Development, M2t, Morocco

Sara Kadaoui works as Project Management & Business Development at M2t. She graduated from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris where she studied economic and political development.

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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

Carlos León

Economics Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, Mexico

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. 

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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. He studied economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Cecilia Lopez Pablos

Lawyer, UNDP Argentina, Argentina

Cecilia Lopez Pablos is a lawyer specializing in commercial and corporate law. She works at the United Nations Development Program in Argentina, specifically with the 12/012 Project for institutional strengthening and the AIDB Project, known as BECAR (science and technology scholarship program). 

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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.

Ayoub Mamdouh Mamdouh

Head of Strategic & Quantitative Research Department, OCP Group, Morocco

 Ayoub Mamdouh is Head of Strategic & Quantitative Research Department at OCP Group. Prior to his current position with OCP Group, he was one of the company’s vice presidents. He is a past president of the Tariq Ibnou Ziyad Initiative, a Moroccan initiative that promotes both the participation of young people in politics and political leadership in Morocco.

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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.

Pablo Medina

Latin America Research Analyst, Wood Mackenzie, Mexico

Pablo Medina joined Wood Mackenzie in 2012 as part of the Latin America Upstream Research team focusing mostly on Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. 

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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.

Hicham Mhammedi

Co-Founder, Experience Ventures, Morocco

Hicham Mhammedi is an entrepreneur based in Casablanca, Morocco. He started his career at Google, where he spent four years in product and sales marketing roles based in Silicon Valley and Singapore.

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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).

Yassine Moustanjidi

Architect and Urban Planner, Klaus Müller GMBH, Germany

Yassine Moustanjidi  is a Berlin-based urban planner and architect. He holds a master’s degree in urban design from the Technical University of Berlin, a master’s degree in architecture from Tongji University, Shanghai, and a diploma in architecture from Ecole Nationale D’architecture, Rabat.

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Moustanjidi is a practitioner and researcher on the issues of urban sustainability and mega-urbanization. He has worked intensively on urbanization challenges within the Middle East and North Africa region, China, and Europe, and has actively participated in a variety of international conferences, competitions, and workshops on the topic. He also took part in regional leadership programs, including the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative in Washington, DC and Young Arab Leaders in Kuala Lumpur.

Nereo Peñalver Garcia

Foreign Policy Advisor, European Parliament, Spain

Nereo Peñalver Garcia is policy advisor at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. 

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He has worked for front-rank European politicians such as Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, and Josep Borrell, former president of the European Parliament. He also served senior officials such as the spokesperson of Javier Solana, EU high representative for the common foreign and security policy, the Parliament’s director general for external relations, and the UN’s communications director for Western Europe. Peñalver has also worked in the EU’s Delegation in Tunisia. He has a master’s from the College of Europe in Bruges and another from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the author, together with Sir Julian Priestley, of the book The Making of a European President, on the first pan-European presidential campaign (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2015).

Hiba Rizk

Senior Project Manager, Transcarbon Africa Middle East, Morocco

Hiba Rizk is currently a senior project manager at Transcarbon Africa Middle East where she is not only in charge of leading large-scale projects but is also involved in business development and operations management for the head office in Casablanca. 

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She graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a bachelor’s in civil and environmental engineering and obtained her PMP certification in June 2012 from the Project Management Institute. Prior to working for Transcarbon, Rizk worked in construction for two years as a junior project manager for Europtima (Morocco), then three years as a project engineer for TGCC (Morocco), followed by a year as a project engineer for Habitat for Humanity (Dominican Republic). She speaks English, French, Arabic, and Spanish.

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