Invited guests
President of the Center for Global Development since January 2017. He enjoys a 35-year career driving economic development policy initiatives relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade, and global economic prospects at major international institutions including the IMF, the World Bank, and the DFID. He served for eight years as Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, earning praise from Managing Director Christine Lagarde as a “visionary leader.” In previous years, he also served as the IMF’s director of External Relations, and Deputy Director of the Policy Development and Review Department. From 2003-2006, Ahmed served as Director General, Policy and International at the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID). Ahmed also worked at the World Bank from 1979-2000 in various managerial and economist positions, rising to become Vice President of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management. In January 2023, he received a knighthood (KCMG) from the UK government for his services to international development.
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2013 2015 2016 2017 2021 2022 2023
Director of Public Health Department, Ministry of Public Health of Qatar. He is also, among others, Chair of the National preventive health care committee, Qatar since 2013 and Chair of the International Health Regulations Committee, Qatar since 2011. He has been a Member of the Executive Committee for GCC Countries, Saudi Arabia since 2008 and Representative, Qatar Health in the World Health Assembly, Switzerland since 2007. He has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University and an EMBA from HEC Paris.
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2016
Qatar University’s 6th President since 2015. He was previously Vice-President for Research, Qatar University (2007-2015). He also served in several roles at Qatar University including Associate Vice President for Research and Head of Civil Engineering at the College of Engineering. His research interests include construction productivity, project optimization, legal contracts and procurement. He is also a member of several professional international societies and organizations. He holds a PhD from the University of South Wales, UK, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech, USA.
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2016
President and CEO of Qatar Petroleum since November 2014. He joined Qatar Petroleum (QP) in 1986 as a student, studying Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, USA. Immediately after graduation, he joined QP’s Reservoir & Field Development Department, where he progressed through various positions. He then became the Manager of Gas Development responsible for North Field management and development. From 2006 until this appointment, he was the Director of QP’s Oil & Gas Ventures Directorate. In September 2014, he was appointed as QP’s Managing Director. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University, USA.
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2016
Executive Director of Reach Out To Asia (ROTA). He joined ROTA as Senior Operations Manager in 2009 and was promoted to the role of Executive Director in 2010. Since then he has been responsible for continuing the strategic course set by ROTA’s Board of Directors. Under his leadership, the organization has led a variety of initiatives in 13 countries around Asia and Qatar. He has served on the steering committees of various international and local groups in the field of development and social responsibility. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards Working Group. In Qatar, he represents ROTA on the Steering Board of the TAMM Volunteer Network, of which ROTA is a founding member.
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2016
Director of the Diplomatic Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, since 2012. Following his doctorate degree, he became Assistant professor at Qatar University. In 2005, he moved into the public service sphere, where he headed the Department of Social Planning at the State of Qatar Planning Council. In parallel, he was Deputy Chairman of the Permanent Population Committee (2007-2011). In 2009, he was appointed as the state focal point representative for the Alliance of Civilizations. Author and co-author of several books and technical reports, he has published many articles in academic journals, and conference papers on various political, sustainable development, and management issues. He holds a Ph.D in Resources Management from the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
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2016
Secretary General of the Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, since 2014. She has been an education researcher and Director of Cultural Relations Department and Evaluation Institute. She is an active member of the Committee of Trustees of the State Appreciation and Recognition Awards, National Coordinator for Education for All 2030, member of the Executive Council of ISESCO, member of the Executive Council of the ALESCO, Chair of the Committee of Co-operation Agreement between the State of Qatar and UNESCO, Executive Chairperson of “Education Excellence Award”. She graduated from Qatar University. She also has a Master’s Degree in education from Ain Shams University. She holds a PhD from this same university.
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2016
Former Ambassador of the State of Qatar to France (2013-2016). Previously, he served as Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in New York (2011-2013). He was Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Belgium (2007-2011), Counsellor at the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Brussels (2004-2007) and he worked at the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Washington (2000-2004). He also worked at the Permanent Delegation of the State of Qatar in New York (1998-2000). He started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997. He graduated in international relations from the American University, Washington.
Participation
2015 2016
Prime Minister of Qatar since 26 June 2013. After serving in different posts in the government, on 15 February 2005, he was appointed Minister of State for Interior Affairs. He was named as Prime Minister on 26 June 2013 in a cabinet reshuffle. He was also named as Minister of the Interior in the same cabinet reshuffle. He graduated from Durham Military College, United Kingdom, in 1984 and received a bachelor’s degree in police sciences in 1995.
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2016
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. He currently serves as the Chairman of Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar Development Fund. Previously he held the position of Assistant Foreign Minister for International Cooperation Affairs (2013). He has also served as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qatar Mining Company. He joined the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in 2003 as an Economic Researcher and then became Director of Economic Affairs between 2005 and 2009. In June 2010, he was appointed Secretary of the Personal Representative of H.H. the Emir for Follow-up Affairs at the Emiri Diwan. He graduated in Economics and Business Administration from Qatar University.
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2016 2017 2019
Senior policy advisor and head of Public Policy Analysis at the Kingdom Economic and Energy Analysis Department of Saudi Aramco (SA), the Saudi national oil company. Prior to his current position, he was a senior advisor at the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPM), and lead negotiator on a number of issues on international energy and environmental policies at multiple UN organizations, as well as the G20. He also served as a board member at the Green Climate Fund. He graduated from the University of Hull, United Kingdom and the University of Westminster, United Kingdom.
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2016
Consultant on international economic issues to the Policy Planning Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France. Formerly, he has held the position of Chief Economist / Senior advisor for international economic issues, Policy Planning Staff, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France. He has also served as Head of the International Macroeconomic Forecasts Division and Head of the Public accounts Division of the French Ministry of Economy. He has also been staff economist at the Economic department of the OECD.
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Chargé de mission, Royal Cabinet, Morocco. He was appointed as Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation by His Majesty King Mohammed VI in 2013. He served as Ambassador to Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Belize. In 2008, he was appointed Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, a position he held until his election as Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, in July 2011. He holds a degree in economics from the University Mohammed V, Rabat and graduated from the Institute of Management, Boston.
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Author and journalist, specialising in geopolitics as a contributing editor to The Economist and Project Syndicate. A graduate in Arabic from Cambridge University and in education from London University, he taught at the University of Libya and then at the American University of Beirut before embracing journalism in time for the Lebanese civil war. His subsequent career with The Economist included positions in London as industry editor and Asia editor, along with foreign postings that ranged from Hong Kong and Singapore to Brussels, Paris, Los Angeles and Washington DC. More recently he has worked with the UN Environment Programme, with the Rockefeller Foundation on fragile states and with BBVA’s OpenMind on world conflicts. In July 2021 he became head tutor for The Economist‘s first online course on global trends in geopolitics, with a particular focus on China and the USA.
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2011 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024
Director of the Ifri Sub-Saharan Africa Center. He works on Mauritania and security issues in the Sahel. He teaches at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Lille and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He holds a PhD in political geography from the University of Rouen.
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2008 2012 2014 2016 2018 2021 2022 2024
Director of the Center for Energy at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and lecturer at Paris Dauphine University. She began her carreer in the energy sector in 2004 as a research fellow at the Center for Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials (CGEMP) at Paris Dauphine University. She served as Economist for the French energy regulator (Commission de Régulation de l’Energie) (2008-2014). She holds a PhD in Economics from Paris Dauphine University and is the author of several papers on energy.
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2014 2015 2016
Chairman of France Brevets, Scientific Advisor of the Center for Energy and Climate of Ifri, former President of the French Energy Council. He is a member of the French Academy of Engineering. He has been General Delegate of the French Academy of Engineering. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of IFP Energies Nouvelles (2003-2015). Prior to that, in 1999 he was appointed Director of the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Cooperation and Policy Analysis Directorate. From 1989 to 1994, he headed the oil and gas department of the French Industry Ministry. He worked as Executive Vice-President of the IFP in charge of research and development activities (1994-1998). He graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École des mines.
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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France since February 2016. He served as Prime minister from May 2012 to March 2014. He was Mayor of Nantes (in Loire-Atlantique, west of France) from 1989 to 2012 and president of the Urban Community of Nantes Métropole from 2001 to 2012. He was also a Member of Parliament. From 1997 to 2012, he was president of the Socialist, radical, citizen and left-wing currents Group at the French National Assembly. He started his career as a German professor in 1973.
Participation
2016
Member of Parliament and Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey. He was also a member of the National Security Council. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2009). In 2002, he was elected to Parliament and appointed as the Minister of Treasury. In addition to his tenure as Minister of Treasury, he was appointed in 2005 as the first Chief Negotiator for Turkey’s accession negotiations with the European Union. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He received a MBA in Marketing, Organizational Behavior and International Business from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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2013 2016
Serial entrepreneur, he started the adventure in France where he launched several successful startups. He then went on to manage a technology incubator from 1995 to 1998. In 1998, he founded Entopia, a company specialized in semantic analysis and raised $40 million. He headed the company from the Silicon Valley until 2006. After France and the USA, he moved to China where he developed Xanadu, a key player of online travel services, with Nicolas Berbigier. In 2010 they co-founded FAMOCO of which he is the CEO.
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2016
Ambassador of the Republic of Paraguay to the State of Qatar since 2014. Prior to that, he served as a Member of the MERCOSUR Parliament (2008-2013) and was notably Vice President and then President of the Committee on the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (Eurolat). He was also a Professor of International Public Law at the American University of Asuncion, Paraguay (2006) and a Member of the House of Representatives of Paraguay (1998-2003). He obtained a lawyer degree from the American University of Asuncion, Paraguay.
Participation
2016
President of the Global Commerce Institute of Lee&Ko, a leading global law firm in Korea, President of Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA), Professor Emeritus (former professor and Dean) of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Seoul National University and Chairman of the Korean Committee of the Trilateral Commission and the Co-Chair of Korea-Canada Forum. Professor Bark served as Non-Resident Senior Visiting Scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Harvard Kennedy School. He has participated in the Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition of the Trilateral Commission as an Asia-Pacific member. He served as Minister for Trade of the Korean government (from December 2011 until March 2013). In spring 2013, Dr. Bark was in the race for the Director-General position of the WTO as the Korean candidate. He also served as Chairman of the International Trade Commission of the Korean Government. He taught at Sciences Po, Stanford University and the University of Washington as a visiting professor. In addition, he was a visiting scholar at the IMF and consulted for the World Bank and the ADB.
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Chairman and Founder of FDB Partners SPRL, an investment and advisory firm in TMT and publishing. In 2011, he was appointed Chairman of IDATE DigiWorld, the leading European think tank and consultancy organisation dedicated to Internet, Telecommunications and Media. He has had unique and diversified entrepreneurial and corporate experiences in the technology sector and founded 7 companies. He started his career as a researcher in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence with IBM Corporation. He served as President and CEO of Lucent EMEA and then as International CEO and corporate officer. He was also CEO of BT Global Services and a BT Group PLC board member. He sits in various boards and he is a frequent speaker in worldwide conferences on digital technologies.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Founder and CEO of The Global Compass. He is also a senior Advisor, strategic development and partnerships, of Agence Publics. Prior to this, he served as Director of Democratic Citizenship and Participation at the Council of Europe. He served at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in New York as deputy Director, Strategic Development and Partnerships (2008-2014). He also served as the Head of Development Policy Dialogue at the World Bank (1999-2008). He was the first Executive Director of the Aspen Institute France (1994-1999) and is currently a member of the executive board of the Aspen Institute in France.
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2016
Senior Fellow for North Africa/Middle East at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and consultant in international relations. He was formerly President of the Arab World Institute located in Paris (2002-2004). He was Ambassador of France to Canada (1998-2001) and to Jordan (1989-1993). He also served as Financial Counselor at the French Mission to the United Nations (1978-1981). He published or edited several books – La démocratie est-elle soluble dans l’Islam ? – and writes regularly in Le Monde, Politique Etrangère, Questions internationales, Ramsès. He graduated from Paris Institute of Political Studies. He also attended the École nationale d’administration (National School of Administration).
Participation
2008 2016
Chairman and CEO, AccorHotels. He began his career in the finance sector in 1985 in the United States. In 1997, he joined Colony Capital to install and develop from Paris the European branch of the private investment firm. Within 15 years, he managed and participated in a number of investments in the hotel sector. Member of AccorHotels’ board since 2005, he was appointed as Chairman and CEO of the Group in 2013. He is also Vice-Chairman of the supervisory board of the Gustave Roussy Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of GE. He holds a master in Economics from the Sorbonne University of Paris.
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2016
Executive Director, ELNET, since 2011. He made his career in the private sector as a consultant in communications, PR and international relations, dealing with Middle-Eastern and strategic affairs. He plays a crucial role in the French-Israeli relationship through his commitment both at the community and political levels. He seeks to strengthen ties between political leaders from France and Israel who believe that close relations between Europe and Israel are vital to both parties.
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Director of the Centre for Migrations and Citizenship at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (UK) between 2001 and 2003, and a visiting fellow at the New York University (2009), the Institute for Advanced Studies-Collegium in Lyon (2010), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity (2015). He gained his PhD in Political Sciences in 2000 at the Institute of Political Studies in Aix-en-Provence (France) and his Habilitation (HDR) at Sciences Po Paris in 2013. He is one of the editors of the book European States and their Muslim Citizens (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the author of La citoyenneté à la française (Editions du CNRS, 2016).
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2008 2014 2016 2017
Honorary President of the French Judaism Foundation. He served as President of the European Jewish Congress (ECJ) (2005-2007) and of the French Unified Jewish Social Fund (FSJU) (2006-2014). He also co-chaired the Unified Jewish Appeal of France (AUJF) (2006-2014). In January 2010, he took over from David de Rothschild as President of the French Judaism Foundation, a position he held until 2014. He started his career first as an entrepreneur in household appliances and then in internet with LibertySurf (internet service provider). He is also a member of the Board of Governors at the Shimon Peres Center for Peace and of the Weisman Institute France.
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2016 2017 2022 2024
Head of the Commercial and development policies Unit at the General Secretariat for European Affairs. He teaches International Economics at Sciences Po Paris and is a former Deputy Secretary general of the Paris Club at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. He also worked as Former Portfolio manager at the French government shareholding agency, as Deputy Head of Official Development Assistance and Multilateral development Institutions at the French Ministry of Finance, as project officer at the French Development Agency in Beijing and as a research assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a graduate from Sciences Po Paris, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and Johns Hopkins University.
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2016 2017
President, EuroInsol. He is an attorney at law, insolvency practitioner. He is managing partner within the law firm Borza & Associates, specialized in commercial legal advice, and EuroInsol, professional company specialized in judicial reorganization. He has published various articles and studies within the Romanian Criminal Law Review, The Legal Courier, ”Law” magazine, the Romanian Journal of the Legal Research Institute of The Romanian Academy, the Romanian Intellectual Property Law Review. He has a Ph. D. in Management.
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2012 2016 2017
Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the State of Qatar since 2012. He served as Head of non-European Bilateral Economic Relations Department (2009-2012), Head of Expatriate Network Management Dept/Sectn at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2008-2009). He has been a Career Diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia since 1991. He graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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2016
Former Governor, Morocco. He was Director of Cabinet of the Interior Minister, Special Adviser at the Office of the Interior Minister and administrator at the central administration of the Interior Ministry. He studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and graduated from the School of Law in Rabat. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University Paris II.
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2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
President of the Global Virus Network, professor of medicine at USF. Christian Brechot, MD, PhD joined the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine as Senior Associate Dean for Research in Global Affairs, Associate VP for International Partnerships and Innovation, Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, and heads USF’s Initiative on Microbiomes. He is also President of the Global Virus Network. In addition to his past role as President of the Institut Pasteur, he has held senior positions at Institut-Meriux, Inserm (the French NIH) as well as Paris Descartes University. Dr. Bréchot’s research activities have focused on viral hepatitis, microbiomes, and viral infections.
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2009 2013 2014 2015 2016 2021 2022
Ambassador of France. President, FBE International Consultants. Former Senior International Adviser and member of the European Advisory Board of Citi, after having been Chairman of Citigroup France. Former Ambassador of France to the United States and to Canada, diplomatic Adviser to Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and special Assistant to President Charles de Gaulle. Former Director of international relations at the French Atomic Energy Commissariat. He is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, of the École Nationale d’Administration, and of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
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2009 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016
Chairman & CEO of Burelle and Honorary Chairman of Plastic Omnium. Honorary President, MEDEF International (2005-2016). Manufacturing engineer at L’Oréal (1966-1967). He was Department Head, General Manager, Chairman & CEO of Plastic Omnium (1967-2001). He was among others Director and President of the Compensation Committee of Essilor International (1997-2009), Board Member of the German-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1997-2003), Director of the French-American Chamber of Commerce (1999-2005) and Director of Lyon School of Management (EM Lyon) (2004-2010). He was also member of the Executive Committee of Medef (2002-2005). He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Banque Hottinguer since 2005. He graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He holds a MBA from Harvard University.
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2015 2016 2017 2018
Founder of Cercle Cyclope, Professor emeritus at Paris-Dauphine University, Consultant for various International Organisations (OECD, EEC, UNCTAD). He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Office of the French Prime Minister. He published around forty books including the latest Une brève histoire économique du XXème siècle, published in 2019, and Journal de la dissolution in 2024. From 2010 to 2023, he was the President of the French Observatory on fixing food products prices and margins. A graduate from HEC, he is “agrégé” in History and holds a Doctorate in Humanities.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024
Chairman & Publisher, Maekyung Media Group. He is Chairman of Maeil Business Newspaper and Maeil Broadcasting Network. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Korea (2002). He currently serves as Founder and Executive Chairman of World Knowledge Forum, Board Member of World Association of Newspapers and Member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. He graduated from the University of Rochester in Politics, from the George Washington University in International Affairs, from New York University in International Business Management and received a PhD from NYU.
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2012 2013 2014 2016 2018
Executive Chairman at Al Makeen, a specialized advisory strategy firm with a focus on monetary policy, financial institutions, digital economy, industrial policy, and national food security. Mr. Charafeddine is a seasoned Central and Commercial Banker, and the former First Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). He is also an international strategist with profound expertise in central banking, regulation and supervision, and financial markets, complemented by hands-on experience in commercial banking. Mr. Charafeddine served as a board member for various international and regional monetary and financial organizations. As a social and economic reform advocate, his work centers on economic inclusion, poverty alleviation, and the empowerment of women and communities. He is also a writer and speaker, sharing insights on strategy, leadership, monetary policy, finance, economics, and personal and organizational development.
His intellectual contribution is featured on his website.
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2012 2016 2017 2021 2022 2023 2024
Former Prime Ministerial Advisor of Thailand, Senior Fellow Harvard University and Chairman, Nation-Building Institute. President of the Institute of Future Studies for Development and Honorary Consul General in Thailand. He was also a Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was a Member of Parliament. He is also an Executive Chairman Adviser to CP ALL, the largest listed flagship of the largest Conglomerate in Thailand and a Director of Singapore’s listed company ASTI Holdings. He graduated from Monash University, Australia, Harvard University, Cambridge University and Oxford University, including a PhD in Economics and DPhil in Management.
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2016 2017
Emeritus director of reseach at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sociology. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. Ex-Editor of the French Journal of Sociology and member of a dozen editorial committees of international scientific journals, he leads the GEMAS Studies in Social Theory, Bardwell Press, Oxford. He wrote numerous papers and books, including Essai sur l’islamisation (2018). He taught in many higher education institutions such as Sciences Po and many universities: Paris IV, Paris V, Lausanne, Geneva, Casablanca, Rabat, London, Nuffield College Oxford.
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2015 2016 2017 2019
Ambassador of France to the State of Qatar since 2014. Previously, he served as French Ambassador for Syria at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the closure of the French Embassy in Damascus. He was Ambassador to Syria (2009-2012). He was also Special Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spokesperson and Director of Communication and Information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2008-2009), Special Advisor for crises and conflicts to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs (2007) and Director of International Missions at Médecins du Monde (2006). He was a Senior lecturer at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP), the French National School of Public Administration (ENA) and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a Medical Doctor from Paris V University and a graduate of Paris Institute of Political Studies.
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2016
Chairman of SK Group. He oversees and unites the 82 companies – primarily focused on the energy, chemical, telecommunications, semiconductor and trading/services industries – that comprise SK Group. He has been Chairman & CEO of SK Holdings since 2016, Chairman of SK Hynix since 2012 and Chairman of SK Innovation since 2011. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Chairman & CEO of SK Energy. He was among others a Member of Brookings International Advisory Council (ICA) (2010), Director of the Board, United Nations Global Compact (2008), Vice Chairman, Federation of Korean Industries (2005). He graduated from Korea University. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago.
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2016
Vice Chairman & CEO, SK Innovation since 2016. He has held various positions within the SK Group, among others, President & CEO, SK Innovation, President & CEO, SK Energy, President, Strategy Committee of SK SUPEX Council, President, Corporate Ethics Committee of SK SUPEX Council, President & CEO, SK C&C, President & Managing Director of IT Service Business, SK C&C, Executive Vice President & Head of Corporate Planning & Management, SK C&C, Head of SK Research Institute, SK Holdings. He graduated from Pusan National University and Georgia State University.
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2016
Honorary Chairman of Lafarge, who has merged with Holcim to form LafargeHolcim. He was a Director of LafargeHolcim until May 2018, and was also a director of several international companies, among which Unilever, Allianz, DuPont and Total. From 1966 to 1975, he worked with the French government in various positions. He joined Lafarge in 1975. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of Lafarge in 1989. He was Chairman of Lafarge from 2003 to 2007. In parallel he was Chairman of Institut de l’Entreprise, of AFEP (Association of the large French companies) and of the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Member of the Institut de France and Past Chairman of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He graduated from the Ecole polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He also holds a French law degree and a PhD in Management from the University of Texas.
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University since 1981. Previously, he was Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-1997), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-1992), Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-1981), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-1966), U.S. Department of State. He received an A.B. from Oberlin College, a M.Sc (Econ) from London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Vice President at JOKR, a rapid grocery delivery startup primarily operating in the US, Latin America and Europe. Previously he worked as a Vice President at SoftBank Group International. Benedict has experience in the mobility sector, the last-mile delivery sector, and the not-for-profit sector in various senior management roles across various successful startups. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from King’s College London.
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2016 2017 2018 2021
Polish politician, Vice-President of the European Parliament responsible for Eastern Policy and the Eastern Partnership. He served as Minister of European Affairs, Minister without Portfolio and Deputy Minister of Culture and Arts. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004. He is Vice-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, as well as interparliamentary forum with national parliaments of Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. He is also Coordinator in Committee on Budget Control (CONT), member of the Foreign Affairs (AFET) committee in the EP and the Delegation EU – Ukraine. He graduated from the University of Wroclaw.
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2016
Senior Fellow at the OCP Policy Center in Rabat, Morocco and a non-resident scholar at Bruegel. He teaches graduate courses on globalization and on international trade policy at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and in the executive program of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC). He was previously Director of the International Trade, Economic Policy, and Development Prospects Departments at the World Bank. He was also President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Group Vice President of Data Resources, Inc., and a consultant with McKinsey and Co.
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2016 2017 2018
Chairman of the Fiscal Council and Advisor to the Governor (Euro Area Affairs), former Board Member of the National Bank of Romania. Professor of economics, The School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest and Member of the Romanian Academy. First Vice President of the Romanian Financial Supervision Authority during 2013-2014. He served as a member of the European Parliament (2007-2009) and he co-authored the EP report on the reform of the regulation and supervision of financial markets. Finance Minister of Romania (1997-1998), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banca Comerciala Romana (2005-2007), Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania (1992-1997) and Deputy Minister of Finance (1992). His last volume is entitled Emerging Europe and The Great Recession (UK, 2018).
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Advisor to the Executive Chairman, Ifri, Editor of Politique étrangère and co-director of the annual report Ramses. He is also President of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe and of le Club des Vingt . Former Executive Vice-President of Ifri. Previously, he was in charge of the Security Studies department at Ifri. Before joining Ifri, he was Deputy Director of the Institut français de polémologie (French Institute of Polemology), and then Secretary General of the FEDN (Fondation pour les études de défense nationale). He also taught at the Military School of Saint-Cyr, at the Paris I University and at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP). His studies and publications deal with strategic issues, particularly with French strategy and European issues.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023 2024
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (2014-2016). Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009-2014). Following the November 2002 elections he was appointed as Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister and Ambassador-at-Large and continued to serve until 2009. Between 1995 and 2002, he taught and also had administrative duties at different universities in Istanbul. He published several books and articles on foreign policy. He graduated from Bosphorus University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bosporus University.
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2016 2017
Ambassador of France. He began to work at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Head of the Press and Information Department (1981-1985) and then became Head of the North Africa and Middle-East Department (1985-1989). He was Ambassador to Egypt (1989-1991), Head of the Political Affairs Department (1991-1995), Ambassador to the UN (1995-2000), and then to the Holy See (2000-2001). He is Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Institut du Monde Arabe and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation Res Publica.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018
Executive Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation since 2010, and co-Secretary-General of the Africa-Europe Foundation since 2020. She is a member of International Crisis Group (ICG), of the European Council of Foreign Affairs (ECFR), of the comité éditorial of the Revue Commentaire, and of the Conseil scientifique of IHEDN. She served as Inspecteur général des finances at the French Ministry of Economy and Finances between 2007 and 2010, after having been Africa advisor to the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2007, and advisor to the French Ministers of Development between 1995 and 1997, and between 2002 and 2004. She began her career at the French Sénat, where she served at the Finances and Budget Commission from 1984 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2002, auditing a number of public expenditures, notably in the defense, foreign affairs, development, environment, research, education, telecoms and media sectors.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2018 2021
Partner, Desfilis. He is the Senior Partner of the firm that he joined in 1986 and became its managing partner in 1990. He can handle complex operations involving finance and taxation. He has a strong expertise in governance issues as well as business succession. He holds a Master’s Degree in Corporate Law (Institut du Droit des Affaires, University of Paris II – Assas) and a Master’s Degree from the Institut d’Economie Appliquée in Paris.
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2015 2016 2017 2019
Honorary lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, expert-consultant to international organisations and member of the strategic council of IFRI. Through her research, relationships in the field and various positions held in the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), she has become a specialist in democratisation, crisis and conflict resolution, transition and peace-building processes, especially in Africa. In the OIF, her positions have included chief of staff, delegate for peace, democracy and human rights and special advisor for political and diplomatic affairs to the Secretary-General from 1988 to 2010. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and is a member of the Académie des Sciences d’Outre Mer, and a member of Ifri’s Strategic Advisory Board, founder member of the journal “Nouvelle Afrique Contemporaine”, and an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
President of ETI FINANCE (SMEs and Midcaps financing, Asset based lending). Former chairman of the Board for the Autoroutes et Tunnel du Mont Blanc and of Société Française du Tunnel Routier du Fréjus, former Vice President of the French Public Investment Bank (BPI). Former CEO of OSEO (the French Agency for Innovation and SMEs financing). Former Engineer at the Directorate of Navigation of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, Managing Director of the Caisse des Dépôts (French public financial institution) for the Normandie Region and later on for the Bourgogne Region, Chairman of the Board of the Société régionale de financement (Sorefi) for the Caisses d’Epargne (French savings banks) in the Midi-Pyrenées, of the Caisse d’Epargne in the Midi-Pyrénées and of the Crédit Foncier de France (National mortgage bank of France). He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the ENPC (corps des Ponts) and holds a degree in Economic sciences (Paris X).
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
CEO and co-founder of OpenClassrooms, the leading e-learning platform in Europe with more than 2 million members and 40 partners. Launched in 2013, OpenClassrooms makes education accessible to all. The platform revolutionizes learning with a unique approach based on skills and mentoring. The vocational training and certifications, which are 100% online, promote employability for digital and tech jobs and help people to quickly integrate into the workforce and add value. In 2016, he was selected as “Forbes 30 under 30 Europe”. He graduated from the INSA Lyon.
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2016
Head of division at the French Nuclear Safety Authority, she is in charge of the regulation of nuclear safety and radiation protection in South-Western France. She previously worked for Veolia Australia as a business developer (2015) and for EDF as a nuclear maintenance supervisor (2014). She is a graduate of Ecole normale supérieure and Paris Institute of Political Studies, and an engineer of the French Corps des Mines.
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2016 2017 2018 2019
Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Executive Vice-President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco as the Director of Economics, Statistics and International Relations. Prior to this, he served as an economist at the World Bank. He holds scientific and advisory positions in various institutions, including the Malabo-Montpellier Panel, the Moroccan Capital Market Authority, and the French Institute of International Relations. He is also advisor to the CEO and Chairman of the OCP Group, and serves as a board member of the OCP Foundation and as a global member of the Trilateral Commission. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bordeaux.
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Professor of International Relations at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier’s Law Faculty and Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South. He is also professor at Royal College of Advanced Military Studies (Kenitra) and professor invited at Cergy-Pontoise University (Paris), Cadix University (Spain) and at La Sagesse University (Beirut, Lebanon). He wrote of numerous books and articles dealing with International relations and geopolitics: the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Arab world. He is co-director of the Moroccan-Spanish review Peace and International Security and in charge of the Observatory of Mediterranean Studies (Abdelmalek Essaadi University).
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2016
Chief Palestinian Negotiator and Head of the Negotiations Affairs Department since 2003. He is also Head of the Palestinian Side of the Steering and Monitoring Committee since 1996. He is an elected member to the Palestinian Legislative Council since 1996. He was Minister of Local Government, Palestinian National Authority (1994-2003), Head of the Palestinian Election Commission (1993-1996), Vice-Chairman of the Palestinian Negotiating Delegation (1991-1993) and Professor of Political Science at Al-Najah University/Nablus (1979-1991). He graduated from the University of San Francisco. He holds a PhD from Bradford University, United Kingdom.
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2016
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Europe, for The New York Times, based in Berlin. Former London, Paris and Berlin Bureau Chief of The New York Times. He has served in numerous postings for The Times in Brussels, Jerusalem, Prague, Washington, Moscow, Bangkok and New York where he served as Culture Editor for two years. Previously, he worked for The Boston Globe as European Correspondent, based in London. He also reported from Eastern Europe, Moscow and revolutionary Iran. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda and global terrorism in 2002 and for International Reporting on Russia in 2017. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard College and studied Russian at St. Antony’s College in Oxford.
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2009 2010 2011 2013 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2024
Founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of War on the Rocks, a digital outlet on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, the CTC Sentinel of West Point. He deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan (2010-2011) as a civilian social scientist on a U.S. Army Human Terrain Team. He worked as assistant director at the Center for the National Interest, as a research fellow at the Center for National Policy, and for the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence in London. He has lectured, among others at the U.S. Army War College, American University, John Hopkins University. He received his MA from the King’s College London War Studies Department.
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2016
Member of the Center for Higher European Studies (National Institute for Public Service, former ENA) and senior counsel on studies at MEDEF (Network of French entrepreneurs). He was French Ambassador to Latvia (2002-2006), after having served as an Advisor on politico-strategic affairs to the French Foreign Minister (1997-2002), Special Envoy to the Balkans and the Caucasus (1999) and Ambassador at large on European affairs (2006-2007). He also served as Director of the Policy planning staff of the French Foreign Ministry (1999-2002). From 2010 to 2013, he was Director of Studies and Research of the Institute of Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN). He is a regular contributor to Ramses Report and the quarterly Politique Etrangère (IFRI).
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2008 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023 2024
Technical Director for Energy and Environment at Qatar National Research Fund, a member of Qatar Foundation. He is member of the strategic committee of QF R&D. Before joining Qatar Foundation in 2014, he was Deputy Director General at the French National Research Agency (ANR) in charge of scientific affairs. In 2005, he joined ANR at its inception, first as Head of the Department on Sustainable Energies and Environment up to 2010. He is a member of the strategic water and energy R&D committee of Qatar chaired by the minister of industry and energy. He holds a PhD from University of Strasbourg (France).
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2016
President of the Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI), Japan. He is also President of the America-Japan Society Inc. He served as Ambassador of Japan to the United States (2008-2012), Ambassador of Japan to the UN and WTO in Geneva (2005-2008). He also held the position of Deputy Foreign Minister (2002-2005) and Director General for North American Affairs (1999-2002). He entered the Foreign Ministry in 1969. He served in Jakarta, Paris, London, and Washington DC. He studied at Keio University, Brown University and Stanford Graduate School.
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2016 2018
President of the Institute for Pan-African Strategies, Peace-Security-Governance (IPS). He has been a member of the National Assembly of Senegal since 2017 and became Vice President in October 2019 until 2022. He was the Special Envoy of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to the Central African Republic from 2014 to 2017 and Special Representative of the OIC Secretary General for Africa from 2016 to 2017. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of the African Union and Senegalese Abroad from 2000 to 2002, before serving as Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Senegal from 2002 to 2009. Former President of the “Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa”, he is currently the Special Envoy of the OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie). He holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) from Paris-Sorbonne V University and a Ph.D. in Communication and International Development from Ohio State University.
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2016 2017 2019 2021 2022
Chairman of Organización Cultiba, Grupo Azucarero Mèxico (Sugar Mills) and of GEPP. He is also a board member of Caterpillar Inc., Santander Mexico and a member of the International Advisory Council of Bombardier and Rabobank. He has served as CEO of COECE, Mexico`s Trade Coalition for NAFTA and Free Trade agreements since 1992. He was also President of Industrial Minera Mexico (Mexico’s largest mining company). He graduated from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.
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2016 2017
Lorenzo Gascón is Academician of the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences of Spain, of the Royal European Academy of Doctors and Academician and Vice-President Principal of the Academy of European Culture. He served as Dean of the Illustrious College of Economists of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and as a member of the International Council of the US Information Agency. He is Honorary President of the European League of Economic Cooperation and board Member of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe. He is also a WAAS Fellow. In addition he has been Chairman, President and CEO of several companies, including Tuneles y Autopistas de Barcelona S.A. and the Banco de Expansion Industrial. He holds a PhD and graduated from the Senior Management Program (PADE) of the IESE Business School. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Michoacan, Mexico and Lishui, China.
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Former Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor and Chancellor of the National Order of Merit. He was admitted to the second section of warrant officiers (officiers généraux) on February 28, 2010. He became Chief of the Military Staff of the President of the Republic in 2002. He was promoted to Army General on October 3, 2003, and then appointed Chief of the Defence Staff of the French Army on October 4, 2006. Promoted to Brigadier General in 1997, he was appointed Assistant General to the 11th Airborne Division and joined the SFOR (Stabilization Force) as Head of the “Plans and Policy” Office in the former Yugoslavia. He was admitted to the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in September 1967. He then chose to serve in the infantry and joined the Ecole d’application de l’infanterie (Infantry School) in Montpellier.
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2015 2016 2017 2018
Vice Chairman of the WPC. He manages the organisation of the annual conference since its first edition in 2008. He is also chairman and founder of Alandia, a restructuring advisory firm which helped various States or Sovereign funds to regain control over their industrial investments (Middle East, Africa and West Asia). Former Vice chairman of the Franco Indian chamber of commerce, he was more especially in charge of agricultural investments. He seats, or seated, at several Advisory Boards such as British Telecom or PWC. He published a book on globalization in June 2010: Mondialisation, un autre regard and one on restructuring issues in France (2015).
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2022 2023 2024
Senior Reporter and International Columnist at Le Figaro. He has covered major worldwide political crises and armed conflicts for the past 40 years. Expert on geopolitics, he publishes every Tuesday his international column in Le Figaro. He wrote several books on the Middle East and the major diplomatic issues of the West. He regularly takes part in international conferences. He is also a Professor at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and a member of the Editorial Board of the Revue des Deux Mondes. In 2014, he was awarded the Grand Prix de la presse internationale by the foreign correspondents in Paris. He graduated from the École normale supérieure and the École nationale d’administration.
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2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Dr. Thomas Gomart (PhD in History at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and EMBA at HEC) is Director of Ifri. He was its President for Strategic Development from 2010 to 2015 and the Director of its Russia/NIS Centre from 2004 to 2013. As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO – Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies (King’s College – London), he has acquired a diversified international experience. As Researcher, he is currently working on Russia, digital governance, country risk, and think tanks. He recently published Notre intérêt national. Quelle politique étrangère pour la France? (ed., with Thierry de Montbrial), Editions Odile Jacob, 2017; L’affolement du monde – 10 enjeux géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2019 (Prix Louis Marin and Prix du Livre de Géopolitique); Guerres Invisibles. Nos prochains défis géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2021. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). He is also a member of the editorial board of the French journals Politique étrangère, Etudes, and Revue des deux mondes.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
China Special Envoy on the Middle East Issue since 2014. After graduation, he worked in the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, at the Embassy of China to the Arab Republic of Egypt, at the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council of China and at the Permanent Mission of China to the UN. He served as Head of the Chinese Office to the Palestinian National Authority (at the Rank of Ambassador), Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Ambassador to the Republic Turkey. He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University.
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2016
CEO & Co-founder at Dataveyes. Ever since the completion of her studies, she has been nurturing a passion for how information can be expressed, shared and understood. In 2010, sensing that the rich data era will transform the way we work, learn and communicate, she co-founded Dataveyes, a studio specialized in Human-Data interactions. Within Dataveyes, she translates data into interactive experiences, in order to reveal new insightful stories, accompany new uses and understand our environment shaped by data and algorithms.
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2016
Managing Director of Bordier & Cie in Geneva. Former Managing Partner of EFG Bank in Geneva, his area of expertise is private asset management. He is a member of the Board and Treasurer of the WPC Foundation. He previously worked as a money market dealer at the Al Saudi bank in Paris, then as Treasurer for Europe at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi in Paris. He received a degree in Economics from the University of Neuchâtel and an Advanced Management Degree from the École des cadres de Lausanne.
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2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Founding President of Europartenaires and former President of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. She was first appointed Administrator at the Ministry of Finance and later Secretary General of the Paris Club. In 1981, she served as Advisor to Jacques Delors, Minister of Finance, before becoming Chargé de mission to the President of the Republic from 1982 to 1990. Minister Delegate for European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, then member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, Elisabeth Guigou was Minister of Justice from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, she was appointed Minister of Employment and Solidarity. She was elected Deputy Seine-Saint-Denis between 2002 and 2017. Vice President of the French National Assembly from 2010 to 2011, she served as President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly from 2012 to 2017. She has written a number of publications over the years, including L’Europe. Les défis à venir de la première puissance mondiale (Le Cherche Midi, 2014) and Pour une Europe juste (Le Cherche Midi, 2011).
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Executive President of Exim Banca Romaneasca – a new commercial bank, ranking top 8 on the Romanian market, established after the merger of EximBank SA and Banca Romaneasca SA, at the end of 2022. Mr. Halalai acted as Executive President of EximBank SA since November 2012 and he successfully managed the first Romanian merger of a state-owned bank and a commercial-private one, establishing a significant benchmark for the local financial market. He also has extensive experience in top management positions in the Romanian banking sector, being part of the team that founded ING Securities in Romania in 1998. Over the years, Mr. Halalai proved vision and determination in establishing successful formats that supported the effective role of the banks in fostering the dialogue with the local business community, promoting the national economy both in the country and abroad. Mr. Halalai holds a MBA degree from the Doctoral School of Finance and Banking (DOFIN) in Bucharest and completed a specialized fellow training at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Mr. Halalai also developed a teaching career as Associated Professor of Promotion tools and export programs under the Foreign Trade Master Program of the Faculty of International Economic Relations within the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024
Managing Director, Middle East Region, Electricité de France (EdF)since 2014, based in Abu Dhabi. She is an advisor to the French Foreign Trade since 2011. In 2012, she became Managing Director for MENA and Turkey for Alstom Transport. She was Country President for Near East at Alstom in Amman (Jordan) (2009-2012). In 2008, she was Project Manager at Bouygues Travaux Publics (Construction). In 2005, she settled in Jakarta (Indonesia) and held the position of Deputy Sales Director for Areva Transmission & Distribution until 2007. She graduated from the French school SUPELEC.
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2016
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He served the Palestinian people with distinction for twenty five years and has been a superb representative at the Ministry of Higher Education and at the Association of Arab Universities, among other international academic organizations. Among his academic awards and honors, Professor Hassassian was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by the University of Reims, France, and nominated by the Center of International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, for the Gleitzman Middle East Award. In 2015 he received the Grassroot Diplomat Award. He earned a BA in Political Science from the American University of Beirut, a MA in International Relations from Toledo University, Ohio, U.S.A. and a PhD in Comparative Politics from University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016
Deputy Director of Ifri and Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and taught for many years a course on Terrorism at Sciences Po. He published several books including La Guerre de vingt ans (Robert Laffont, 2021 with Elie Tenenbaum), Intifada française ? (Ellipses, 2012) and War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age (Praeger, 2009 with Thomas Rid; translated in Chinese in 2011). His articles appeared in major journals (Policy Review, Internationale Politik, Commentaire, Études, etc.).
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2008 2016 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Chief coordinator of the High Negotiations Committee, Syria. He was Prime Minister of Syria. He held various posts within the Syrian State, such as member of the national command and the Central Committee of BAATH party. He created the Free National Movement for employees in the institutions of the Syrian State in December 2012 and he stayed its President until March 2015. He is a member of the national coalition for revolutionary forces and the Syrian opposition. He holds a PhD in agricultural engineering.
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2016 2017
Jim Hoagland has been contributing Editor to The Washington Post since January 2010, after serving two decades as Associate Editor and Chief Foreign Correspondent. He has served in a variety of reporting, editing, and opinion-forming roles since joining the newspaper in 1966. He was awarded two Pulitzer prizes and other journalism honors. He began his journalism career as a reporter with The Rock Hill Evening Herald in 1960 while still in college. He is the author of a book, South Africa: Civilizations in Conflict, published in 1972. He graduated with an A.B. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina and he has done graduate work at the University of Aix-en-Provence and Columbia University.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Professor of International Politics at Keio University, Tokyo. He is Director of Research at the Asia-Pacific Initiative, Tokyo. He is also Senior Researcher at the Nakasone Peace Institute, Senior Fellow at The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, and Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. His research interests include postwar international history, British diplomatic history, Japanese foreign and security policy, and contemporary East Asian international politics. He was a member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security from 2013 to 2014, and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities in 2013. He was a Visiting Professor and Japan Chair at Sciences Po in Paris between 2009 and 2010, a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University between 2008 and 2009 and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge between 2021 and 2022. Professor Hosoya studied International Politics at Rikkyo (BA), Birmingham (MIS), and Keio (Ph.D.).
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2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024
President of Airbus Africa & Middle East. In 2011 he was appointed as General Delegate of the Group Airbus for the UAE. In 2005 he joined EADS (European Aeronautics Defence and Space Company) in Sao Paulo as VP Latin America for all the defence activity of the group. He also served as Vice President Sales and Marketing of Thales in Saudi Arabia. His career began in Madrid in 1988 within Alcatel. He graduated from the Paris Ecole Superieure des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées.
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2016 2017 2018
Chairman of Seoul Financial Forum, Chairman of the Board of the Korea Center for International Finance. He is also a Board member of Doosan Shareholding company. He served as Ambassador of Korea to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. He also held the position of Vice Minister for the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Secretary to the President for National Agenda, Senior Economist for the International Monetary Fund. He holds a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Seoul National University.
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2011 2012 2014 2016 2019 2022 2024
Vice Chairman at the Institute for International Economic Studies, which is the research institute established by Toyota Motor Corporation. After joining the Japanese Ministry of Finance in 1973, he engaged mainly in the international issues. Afterwards, he joined The Bank of Japan as Executive Director. He studied Mathematics at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Business Administration at Saarland University in Germany.
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2016
Former Member of the Turkish Parliament. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of The Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) and of the Parliamentary Network on the IMF & World Bank. He served also as a Deputy Convenor of the PGA Peace & Democracy, Law and Human Rights Programs. He is currently Advisory Board Member of the Iman Foundation (London) and Member of the Alumni Club of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He graduated from the University of Vienna and he holds a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences.
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2013 2014 2015 2016
Former Minister Delegate for the Business Environment, Romania. Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of Cluj Innovation City Foundation. Until 2010, he was Chairman of the Board of EFG Securities Romania, Chairman of the Board of EFG Finance Romania and Senior Executive Director of Bancpost S.A. Before joining Bancpost, he was Deputy-Treasurer and Head of Trading with Citigroup Romania. He was also Chairman of the Board of CFR Infrastructura (Romanian Railways), Chairman of the Board of Transgaz (Romanian National Gas Grid Company), member of the Board of Transelectrica (Romanian National Electricity Company). He graduated from Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School and from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
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2016
Member of the Directorate of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe. Former Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Representative to the United Nations and to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), President of the Security Council, and Vice President of the Steering Committee of the International Energy Agency. He studied law, political science and modern languages at the University of Vienna and at The Hague Academy of International Law.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018
Senior Fellow at OCP Policy Center and associate professor in finance at the University of Bordeaux (France). He is also an affiliate professor at Toulouse Business School. His most recent research examines the link between the volatility of the futures market, exchange rate uncertainty and the export of cereals. He is also the head of a master program focused on banking, finance and international trading both at the University of Bordeaux and at Vietnam National University (Hanoi, Vietnam). He has authored several books in the field of finance, including a work studying financial derivatives. He graduated from Middlesex University. He holds a PhD from the University of Bordeaux.
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2016
Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, a global public policy think-tank based in Belgrade, Vuk Jeremić is also Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly magazine Horizons – Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development. In 2016, he participated in the official election for UN Secretary-General and finished in second place. In 2012, he was elected President of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly. During his term in office he played a leading role in steering the UN towards the establishment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He served as Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2012. Mr. Jeremić is a member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) and a trustee of the Cambridge China Development Trust in UK.
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2014 2015 2016 2018 2024
Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He has taught in University of Vermont, Cornell University, University of California at San Diego, University of Sydney in Australia as well as Peking University. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and a CNAPS fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Standing Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is also Director of the Institute for China-US People-to-People Exchange of the Ministry of Education, Vice President of the Chinese American Studies Association, Vice President of China International Relations Studies Association, and Vice President of Chinese Japanese Studies Association.
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2015 2016 2017
The Honourable Donald Johnston joined the law firm of Stikeman Elliott in 1961. In 1973, he was a founding partner of Johnston Heenan Blaikie. Elected to the House of Commons, he joined the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1978. From 1980 to 1984, Johnston successively held senior Cabinet positions and served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General. He then served as President of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 1994. In 1994, Johnston was elected Secretary-General of the OECD. He began his mandate in 1996 and was elected to a second term in 2001. In 2006, Johnston rejoined Heenan Blaikie as a member of the International Business Law Group. He was Chair and is currently Chair Emeritus to the McCall MacBain Foundation. From 2006 until 2010, he was Chairman of the International Risk Governance Council. He was given the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and the Canadian Version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to Canada. He was also awarded prestigious decorations from Japan, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia, France and Canada. He attended McGill University receiving his BA and graduating as the Gold Medallist from the University’s Faculty of Law in 1958.
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2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018
President of the Overseas Koreans Foundation. Previously he was Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security to the President, Korea. Before that, he served as Vice President and Secretary-General of the Global Compact Korea Network and also taught at the Graduate School of International Studies of the Seoul National University as visitng professor. He retired from diplomatic service at the end of 2006 after a long career that culminated in his ambassadorship to France and to UNESCO. He also served as Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, to Morocco and Mauritania. He was Director-General of Economic Affairs at the Korean Foreign Ministry. He studied at Seoul National University and the Graduate School of Public Administration in France, and also received a master’s degree in international politics from the Free Brussels University in Belgium.
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2014 2016 2017
Chancellor of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes and member of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Mohamed Kabbaj was Advisor to His Majesty the King Mohammed VI. Former Minister of Finance and Foreign Investment, he was also President of the Development Committee of the IMF and the Work Bank and Minister of Public Works, Vocational and Professional Training. He was also governor of Greater Casablanca, member of the Moroccan Parliament and he founded the World Sacred Music Festival in Fes. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and the National School of Civil Engineering. He holds an advanced degree in econometrics from Sorbonne University, Paris.
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2010 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the non-governmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Russian foreign and economic affairs specialist. He is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Founder and former Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe of the Academy of Sciences of USSR/Russia (1989-2010). He has been Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) since 2006. He was a Member of High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) (2014-2015). He graduated from the Department of Economics of the Moscow State University.
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2008 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2019
Austrian Ambassador to the State of Qatar since 2016. He joined the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1986. He served as Head of Directorate of COREPER I Affairs regarding EU Single Market including Digital Single Market and Defence Single Market, Open Technology and Innovation, EU Security Research (2012-2016). He was also a national detached expert at the European Commission from 2003 to 2007. He held posts in Kinshasa, Geneva and Tel Aviv among others. He has been a senior lecturer at Danube University, Krems, and Sigmund Freud University, Vienna. He graduated from the University of Vienna and from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
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2016
Lord Kerr is a member of the UK House of Lords. Former member of the UK Diplomatic Service (1966-2002), serving abroad, in Moscow, Islamabad, Washington and Brussels, and in London, in the Foreign Office and Treasury, where he was Private Secretary to two Chancellors of the Exchequer. From 2004, he has been an independent member of the House of Lords, where he currently serves on its International Agreements Committee. He was Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell (2005-2012), Chairman of Imperial College London (2005-2011), and a Director of Rio Tinto (2002-2015) and now is Deputy Chairman of Scottish Power and Chairman of the Centre for European Reform. He was UK Permanent Representative to the European Union (1990-1995), British Ambassador to the United States (1995-1997) and Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary (1997-2C02). He also served the European Union as Secretary-General of the EU Convention (2002-2003) under President Giscard d’Estaing.
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2016
Professor Emeritus of the Chair of Economics and Management of Health Services at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) and Founder of the Pasteur/CNAM School of Public Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France and a member of the steering committee of the Médecins du monde Foundation. Former Consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, he served as Visiting Professor at Yale University, Under Secretary at the French Ministry of Health in charge of hospitals and Advisor to the Prime Minister. He is a Columnist for Le Point.fr. He holds a Master in Agronomy from the Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon, a MBA and a Ph.D. in Socio Economics from Cornell University.
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024
Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) and the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) in the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) in the UN Secretariat. Previously he served as Acting Director and Deputy Director of DPA’s Middle East and West Asia Division (MEWAD) and, before that, of the Asia and the Pacific Division (APD). He also served as Head of DPA’s Iraq Team and Chairman of the UN Iraq Operations Group (IOG). Before joining the UN Secretariat in 1992, he served as Chef de Cabinet to the President of the UN General Assembly. He is a graduate of London University and holds a Doctorate in International Law from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy/Harvard Law School.
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2016
General Manager, Editor in Chief of Al Arab News Channel. He began his career as a correspondent for the Saudi Gazette daily. From 1991 to 1999, he was a foreign correspondent to cover events in countries such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the Middle East. He was Deputy Editor in Chief of Arab News. In 2003, he became Editor in Chief of Al-Watan daily and then was appointed as media advisor to Prince Turki Al Faisal, the Saudi Ambassador in London and later Washington. In 2007, he returned to Al-Watan as its Editor in Chief. He graduated from the Indian State University.
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2016
Mari Kiviniemi has been Managing Director of the Finnish Commerce Federation since 2019. She served as OECD Deputy Secretary General from 2014 to 2018. 41st Prime Minister of Finland from 2010 to 2011, she previously held various positions in the Finnish government, including Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development and Minister for European Affairs. She was a Member of Parliament from 1995 to 2014, chairing and participating in a vast number of committees. Deputy Party Leader of the Finnish Centre Party from 2003 to 2008, she was elected Leader of the Party in 2010. She sits on the board of directors of Blic Public affairs and the supervisory board of Messukeskus Helsinki. She has been a member of many other boards including the Helsinki City Council, the Finnish National Opera Foundation and Lännen Tehtaat Oyj. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki.
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2021
Director of Research for the Gulf Research Center. He also leads the Tafahum Project on a Security Roadmap for West Asia and the Arabian Peninsula sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office and is a member of the Bertelsmann Foundation Strategy Group on “The EU and Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia: Strategies for the EU Neighbourhood”. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Senior Advisor and Director of Research at the Bussola Institute in Brussels, Belgium. Prior, he served as Director of the Gulf Research Center Foundation, Research Program Leader on Gulf-Europe Relations at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai and as Head of Strategic Studies at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi. He is the Editor of eight books; author of Politische Entwicklung in einem arabischen Golfstaat: Die Rolle von Interessengruppen im Emirat Kuwait, coauthor of Establishing a Regional Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Gulf Region, as well as numerous chapter contributions and journal articles. Dr. Koch received his Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Participation
2016 2021
Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a political scientist, historian, columnist, expert on Eastern policy, Co-Founder of the Warsaw Rising Museum, lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Research Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Member of the Lower House of the Polish Parliament – Sejm, where he serves as Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007), and was a member of the National Security Council. From 2009 to 2014, he was a member of the European Parliament, working in the Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence Committees, and Chairman of the EU delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the New Eastern Europe bi-monthly magazine and the Supervisory Board of Alwernia SA. He authored numerous publications on transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe.
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Delhi. He has shouldered the responsibilities of Head of the Department from 2009 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2019. He is the Chief Editor of the Africaindia.org. Professor Kumar has accomplished international projects with NIHSS South Africa, UNESCO Research Group in Brazil, SADC Hashim Mbita Project, Tanzania and nine national projects. He articulated his opinion on different aspects of Africa before the International Geography Union (2004 & 2008), India-Africa Forum Summit (2005, 2011 & 2019), Ronald H. Brown Institute (2008), United Nations Organisation (2012), World Policy Conference (2014, 2016 & 2022), European Commission of African Studies (2014), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (2015), IBSA, BRICKS-IKS (2016, 2018 & 2019) and many others. About 164 articles have been published in different books, journals, and newspapers. He has actively contributed his opinion on India and Africa in the different international media channels of BBC, Aljazeera, ABC, Yomiuri Shinbun and All India Radio.
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2014 2016 2022
Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He was a Parliamentarian for the State of Punjab for 14 years and served in the Union Government as Minister of State in the Departments of Industrial Policy & Planning, Parliamentary Affairs, Planning, Science, Technology and Earth Sciences (2006-2012). He later served as the Cabinet Minister for Law & Justice in the UPA II (2013). He represented India at the United Nations several times. He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
Participation
2016 2017
Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist, member of the Supervisory Board of Edeis as well as member of Surveillance Board of Edeis.com and active member of Bealy.io. He is specialized in the management of conflict situations, and in particular in the management of post-traumatic syndromes. He participates in work on sleep, biological rhythms, and physiological and psychological adaptation factors. He has been practicing in Paris for 40 years, with an involvement in corporate work. He has carried out numerous consulting missions including with Progress, Danone, Rians, Laboratoires Debat, Spie Batignolles, L’Oréal, EDF, Normédic, La Poste, and with the government of Senegal. He also collaborated with IMS Health and the General Management of Manpower.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2024
Honorary Chairman of Lafarge. From July 2015 to April 2017, he co-chaired the Board of Directors of LafargeHolcim. He was previously Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lafarge (2007-2015). He began his career at Lafarge in 1983 and held numerous positions in finance and international operations. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He is Lead Independent Director of ArcelorMittal and was a Board member of EDF from 2008 to 2019. He chaired the Sustainable Development Commission of the MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France, the French employers association) from 2014 to 2018. He graduated from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales business school (HEC, Paris) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA, Paris).
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019
Ambassador of Algeria. Former Minister of Labor and Social Protection and Minister of Youths and Sports of Algeria. He also served as Prefect, Deputy, President of the Finance and Budget Commission at the National Assembly, member of the Commission of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Emigration. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Spain for Economic and Finance Sciences and of the Forum “Penser l’Europe”. Honorary member of the Barcelona Economics Network. Member of the Scientific Committee of the MS’10 Barcelona International Conference. He is Researcher, Lecturer and Teacher at the Higher School for Political Sciences at the Institute of Diplomacy and at the International Relations and the École nationale d’administration (ENA). He was a Board member of the High Institute of Management and Planning, National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as the National Office of Statistics. He was also member of the mediator’s team for the resolution of the Northern Mali and Northern Niger Conflict, and Co-Editor of the agreements. He graduated from the University of Law and Economic Sciences.
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2022
President of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, since 2013. He is also Chair of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). He is a qualified engineer and scientist who has devoted his entire career to the European space program, holding positions within the French National Scientific Research Agency CNRS, several French ministries, at Novespace and a first stint with CNES before joining Starsem and Arianespace for 12 years, where he was CEO then Chairman & CEO. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). He has received several awards from France, the Russian Federation, the Government of Japan and Israel.
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2016 2017 2018 2019
Senior Advisor of KIM & CHANG and Visiting Professor of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. He joined the Korean Foreign Service in 1980. He became Minister-Counsellor of the Korean Permanent Delegation to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris in 2004. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Director General and Deputy Chief Negotiator for the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. Then, from 2008 to 2010, he was Deputy Minister for Trade and Chief Negotiator for the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement. Former Ambassador to the Philippines, he was Ambassador to France from 2012 to 2015. He held the position of G20 Sherpa as well as Ambassador for International Economic Affairs of the Republic of Korea from 2015 to 2017. Ambassador Lee graduated from Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Founder and President of the Louis Bachelier Institute. Member of the Board of Ifri, affiliate Emeritus Professor in Finance at Paris-Dauphine University, Non-Executive Chairman of Les Échos, Chairman and Founder of the Fondation du Risque and Institut Louis Bachelier. He held various positions in the Schlumberger Group and he was CEO of Banque Paribas until the merger creating BNPParibas. He started as a Research Physicist at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He graduated from the École Polytechnique and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024
CEO, He-Sai Photonics Technologies. Formerly Principal Engineer at Western Digital. Before joining Western Digital, he has worked in several Fortune 500 companies including Lam Research and Parker Hannifin. At Tsinghua University, he cohosted “Silk Roads”, an exchange program between students from top universities in China and France. He graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He holds a Ph.D in Robotics and Pattern Recognition from the University of Illinois.
Participation
2016
Founder and Managing Director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, a firm advising on complex ethics matters for leaders in the corporate, non-profit and governmental sectors internationally. She is Chair of Council (trustees) of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Chair of the Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs Advisory Council. She teaches cutting-edge ethics courses at Stanford University and is the author of The Power of Ethics and of The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions. She also founded a non-profit platform for innovative ethics called The Ethics Incubator. She serves on the Stanford HAI and SAP’s AI Ethics Advisory Panel. She also serves on a number of other boards and advisory boards, including: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Yale Divinity School Advisory Council; the French Ambassador’s Foreign Trade Advisory Council in the UK; the American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières US Advisory Board (former Chair). She recently completed her term as Vice Chair of the Global Partnership for Education. She is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. Susan holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a JD from Columbia University Law School, as well as two BAs and a MA from Stanford and a MA in Chinese Studies from the University of London SOAS.
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019
Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute, at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Previously, he served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2006 to 2011, and was Acting Managing Director during May-July 2011. Formerly Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank and JPMorgan’s Chief Economist, he also was Chief Economist of Salomon Brothers, Inc. from 1992 to 1997. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Program on the World Economy, and is the Vice Chair of the Bretton Woods Committee. He is the immediate past Chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Mr. Lipsky is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and of the Rock Creek Group, a Director of the American Council on Germany and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023 2024
Former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Senegal. President of the Emergence Institute, specializing in economic and statistical studies and strategic planning. He is also Director General of the Economic Foresight Bureau. Previously, he was Deputy Director in the Cabinet of Macky Sall, President of Senegal. He also served as an economic advisor to several Prime Ministers. He is an expert for the UN, the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the African Union. He has served as associate lecturer at the National School of Administration of Senegal and the University Gaston Berger of St. Louis.
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2016 2017 2018 2019
Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center. Former Ambassador of Morocco to the United Nations and Professor at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane. Previously, he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva (2006-2008). He served as Director-General of Multilateral relations and Global Cooperation (2003-2006). He had earlier served as Deputy Permanent Representative at his country’s Mission in New York (2001-2003). He was also Morocco’s Coordinator with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), in Laayoune (1999-2001). He was Ambassador to Hungary, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995-1999). He was also a member of the Cabinet, then person in charge of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (1991-1995).
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2016 2017 2018
Ambassador Lowenstein is Co-Founder of the French American Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He began his career at Marshall Plan European Headquarters in Paris in 1950. In 1951, he was assigned to the U.S. Special Mission to Yugoslavia, resident in Sarajevo. He was a naval officer between 1952 and 1955. He was commissioned Foreign Service Officer in 1956. He served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1974 to 1977 and as U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1977 to 1981. He graduated from Yale University.
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2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Chief Executive Officer of Nuclearelectrica, the only nuclear energy producer in Romania, since 2013. Before joining Nuclearelectrica, she held the position of Counselor of the Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Romania. Previously, she was General Manager and President of the Board of Directors of Fondul Proprietatea (Property Fund), managing the entire activity of the Fund. She has a long and rich experience in banking and financial consulting sectors. She graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies.
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2013 2015 2016
Egyptian Senator and former member of Parliament. She is an Advisor to the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, and is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo. She has been a member of the National Council for Human Rights since 2012 and an Advisor to the Minister of Labour and Immigration responsible for Egyptians abroad since 2011. She was a member of the World Bank’s Council of Advisors for the Middle East & North Africa Region. She was an Advisor to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in 2012 and served on the Committee for Policy Development (UN, 2001-2004). She was awarded a fellowship at MIT in 2016. She is a graduate of Harvard University. She is a prolific writer in English, French and Arabic. She is an Officier de la Légion d’honneur.
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2009 2010 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Social entrepreneur working in the fields of International Relations and Real Estate Development. His current projects include a film series, for which as filmmaker he has documented his interactions with economists, activists, politicians, diplomats, academics, and spiritual leaders amongst others, with the aim of exploring potential paths to a peaceful, just and sustainable world. The first film titled Birth of a Poet was an official selection at the Global Nonviolent Film Festival, 2019. Furthermore, Manu has penned a book that is slated for publication soon, in which he shares his findings about and reflections on what he describes as “an ever-elusive Global Harmony”. Having been in the real estate industry over the past several years, he has had extensive private sector experience previously as well in the fields of Information & Communication Technology, Finance, and Outsourcing. Manu is an Electronics and Communication engineer (R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore) and holds three Master’s degrees: MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C. and Bologna), Global Master in Real Estate Development from IE University (School of Architecture and Design, Madrid), and Master in Creative Writing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona School of Management). He is fluent in English, Spanish, Hindi and Telugu.
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Visiting professor at the Graduate School of Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (NUCB) on energy-climate nexus. He also serves as auditor of SOC Corporation in Tokyo, chairman of FairCourt Capital in London and strategic committee member of Elion House in Singapore. He has had an extensive career in energy business and policy making as JAPEX advisor, JNOC vice president and director of the International Energy Agency. He has a strong interest in new dimension of energy and environmental policies and measures. He belongs to the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum.
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington. He served as national security advisor to the Prime Minister of India (2010-2014), and previously as Foreign Secretary of India (2006-2009). He served as Ambassador or High Commissioner of India to Israel (1995-1997), Sri Lanka (1997-2000), China (2000-2003), and Pakistan (2003-2006). He studied at the Scindia School, Gwalior and at St. Stephens College, Delhi University, where he studied ancient Indian history and Chinese.
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2016
Thierry de Montbrial is Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference. He has been a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France since 1992, and is a member of a number of foreign academies. He serves on the Board or Advisory Board of a number of international institutions. Thierry de Montbrial chaired the Department of Economics at the École polytechnique from 1974 to 1992. He was the first Chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research (1993-2001). Entrusted with the creation of the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’analyse et de prévision) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was its first Director (1973-1979). He has authored more than twenty books, several of them translated in various languages, including Action and Reaction in the World System – The Dynamics of Economic and Political Power (UBC Press, Vancouver, Toronto, 2013) and Living in Troubled Times, A New Political Era (World Scientific, 2018). He is a Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur, Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. He has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun – Gold and Silver Star, Japan (2009), Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2016) and other state honors by the French and several foreign governments. Thierry de Montbrial is a graduate of the École polytechnique and the École des mines, and received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain (2004-2010), he also served as Director of the Institute of Cooperation with the Arab World (1991-1993) and was appointed Director General of Foreign Policy for Africa and the Middle East (1993-1996). He held the position of Spain’s Ambassador in Israel (1996). He was the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process (1996-2003). From 2010 to 2011 he joined parliamentary activities and ran to be elected Director-General of the FAO. In January 2012, he joined the team of the Global Dry Land Alliance in Qatar promoting this international treaty for food security. From 2012 to 2013 he was member of the High-level Advisory panel of the president of the 67th UN General Assembly. Prior to his appointment as High-Representative, Mr. Moratinos was the Honorary Chairman of the CIRSD Board of Advisers (Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development), Senior Advisor of Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Honorary President of REDS, the SDSN Spanish network.
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2010 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Global Co-Head of Commodities Market Natixis. Mr. Mourre has over 35 years’ banking experience, primarily with Morgan Stanley, where he was latterly Managing Director, Vice Chairman of the Commodities Division and Chairman of the firm’s African business. He also co-founded the bank’s oil trading activities in London, established its energy trading activity in Asia, and set up its Singapore office for commodities. Before joining the finance industry, he worked three years for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Cultural Attaché in Hong Kong, and then at Elf Aquitaine (now Total) for over four years as a crude oil trader. He joined Natixis as a Senior Adviser, was then appointed Global Head of Global Markets Commodities and became Co Head of Commodities Markets. He holds a Master of Science degree in business administration from Sup. de co., a D.E.A in business administration from ESSEC/ IAE and a D.E.S.S in international trade and transportation from Aix Marseille University. He did research and taught international finance at HEC for four years. He is Trustee of the Trust of the Friends of the French Institute in London, Chairman of the Crown Estate Paving Commission, Regents Park, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.
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2015 2016 2018 2019 2023
As Provost of IE University and Dean of IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, he is responsible for the university’s international expansion through strategic alliances and for research and teaching in Public Policy, Global Affairs and Economics. He is also the Chair of the Board of the IE New York College. In 2023 Dr. Muñiz was elected President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), the preeminent organization bringing together the world’s top schools of global affairs and public policy. He is a Senior Fellow at Brookings’ Foreign Policy Program, a member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Club of Madrid, and a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He served as State Secretary (Vice Minister) at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2020-2021). In this role, he was responsible for the ministry’s Strategy and Foresight Unit, the Economic Diplomacy Team, and the Communications Department. He coordinated Spain’s 2021–2024 Foreign Policy Strategy, and led the work on the National Strategy on Technology and Global Order. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, a Master in Financial Markets from the Instituto de Estudios Bursatiles in Madrid, and a Bachelor in Law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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2016 2018 2019
Executive Director of StarFinder Investment Fund, Board Member of the Institute of Economic Development Europe-Latin America (IDE EAL), owner/director of Nairne Ltd, a UK-based strategic economic development consultancy, and previously Director of Global Advisory Services at Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG, Liechtenstein. She has worked on United Nations assignments, co-ordinated cross border co-operation projects and supported businesses’ global expansion. She had a key role in reactivating Visegrad Group cooperation. She is a University of Warsaw International Relations graduate and she holds an Executive MBA from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Warsaw School of Economics and the China University of Mining and Technology.
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2016 2017
Former Governor of the State of West Bengal, former Special Advisor and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Led India in institutionalized security and strategic dialogues with several countries including Brazil, France, Japan, Sri Lanka, Germany, Russia, UK and the USA. Prior to this, was Director of the Intelligence Bureau for two terms and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He also headed the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Developing an Integrated Capability to address Internal Security Challenges. He has dealt extensively with a whole range of issues concerning internal, national and global security, including aspects such as Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and Strategic Analysis. He was awarded the Padma Shri, a National Order in 1992. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Madras.
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2011 2013 2015 2016 2017 2021 2022 2023 2024
Head of the Ifri program on North America. She edits its online research papers, such as the U.S.-focused Potomac Papers. She writes on northern American and transatlantic issues in the annual Ifri report Ramses. She also teaches a class on Civil Society in the United States at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and is a columnnist for the weekly paper Réforme. Prior to joining Ifri, she was a research fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), then a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC (2001-2003). She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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2008 2016
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, an organisation established as a referral point for the consolidation and dissemination of information and material pertaining to moderation and the fight against extremism. Concurrently, he is also Chairman of the Nassar Foundation and he was recently appointed as a panel member of the Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). He was a Member of the Malaysian Parliament (1999-2004 and 2008-2013). He graduated from the University of Jordan and the International Islamic University of Malaysia. He holds a PhD from the University Utara Malaysia.
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2016
President of ECE Consultants SAL since 1982. Chairman of Phoenician Funds Holding (Lebanon), and Executive Director of the Mouflon Fund (Cyprus). He was a consultant at the OECD and Professor of Economics. He has been Chairman at the National Investment Guarantee Corporation (1993-2018) and economic and financial advisor at various GCC countries. He received a Master’s Degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in Economics from Paris.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2024
Chairman of Linebreak, a specialised service provider working with enterprises to drive efficiency and growth with intelligent, real-time decisioning. With over 30 years’ experience in technology transformation and strategic development, Patrick’s career includes more than two decades at Capgemini, where he held various leadership positions and served as a Group Executive Board member for seven years. Since 2021, Patrick has focused on building innovative distributed technologies and services, with a conviction that transitioning from centralised to distributed models is essential to tackle the most pressing societal, environmental and economic challenges.
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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Chairman, Chamber of Commerce and Industry France India, since 2009. He founded the India Trade Centre in 2007. He worked in the high-tech and internet industry, holding managing positions for technology leaders such as Netapp and Enition. He started in the luxury goods industry, heading several demanding positions, from Marketing to Business development, within famous brands (Dior, Celine, Lagerfeld, etc.) which he helped develop on the American continent. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sorbonne University and a Master’s Degree in Science and Techniques from Dauphine University, Paris.
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), Morocco. He is an economist, with a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris (1968). He was Mayor of Rabat (2009-2015), Minister of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco (1998-2008), Member of the Moroccan Parliament (1977-2002), President of the National Union of Students of Morocco (UNEM) (1966-1968). He has also been a University Professor, Chairman of the Association of Moroccan Economists (AEM) and of the Union of Arab Economists. He has authored many papers on economic theory, financial policy, international economic relations, with a focus on the Euro-Afro-Mediterranean area. La mondialisation et la pandémie. Chroniques de confinement (2021. PCNS. Rabat), La mondialisation et nous (2020. Ed. La Croisée des Chemins. Casablanca), La Chine et nous (2017. Ed. La Croisée des Chemins. Casablanca) are among his latest publications.
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2009 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022
Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2006-2008) and was an unofficial US representative to Taiwan as Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (2002-2006). He was on the National Security Council staff of Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush between 1986 and 1993, as Director of Asian Affairs and then as Senior Director and Special Assistant to the President. Paal held positions in the policy planning staff at the State Department, as a Senior Analyst for the CIA, and at US embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He has spoken and published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues.
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2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024
President of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies. He served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations (2008-2011), Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Ambassador to Kuwait (2003-2005). He also served as Secretary to the President of the Republic of Korea for International Security (2002-2003). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and a Master’s Degree from the Graduate School of Law at Seoul National University.
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Vice president Strategy & Climate, Total, since 2016. Previously, he served as the senior vice president Mergers & Acquisitions for Total S.A. since early 2015. From 2010 to 2014 he was senior vice president Americas for the Exploration and Production division of Total. Prior to that, he also served as senior vice president Middle East for the same division (2007-2010). He was also managing director of the Total’s E&P subsidiary in Argentina, Total Austral (2005-2007). He was head of the Investor Relations department of Total S.A., and in various other positions in the Total group, which he joined in 1985. He holds a masters degree in business administration from New York University and a master’s degree in finance from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris, France.
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2016 2017 2018
Chairman of SNCF’s Executive Board and Chairman and CEO of SNCF Mobilités. After holding various positions in public and government service – including terms as Head of Staff for the Minister of Public Service then for the Minister of Employment and Social Affairs, and in the private sector as Deputy CEO of SOFRES, he has worked for more than 15 years as a top executive within SNCF. He was Director of Strategy and then Director of Passenger activities before becoming acting CEO in 2008. He was first appointed Chairman of SNCF in 2008 and was reappointed in 2013. Other responsibilities have included his Chairmanships of Eurostar Group, of Voyages sncf.com and of SYSTRA, as well as being a Board member of Keolis.
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2016
EFG Bank, Geneva. He began his career at Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL), in Brussels and Singapore, and afterwards pursued his career at BNP Paribas Fortis and Dexia Group, where he was CEO of Dexia Switzerland, before joining Geneva Cantonal Bank (BCGE) as Head of Private Banking and Member of the Executive Board. He also served as Head of Private Banking Romandie at BSI before joining EFG Bank as, successively, Head of Private Banking Geneva and Vice Chairman of EFG Asset Management and Head of the Independent Asset Managers. He holds Management, Finance and Tax Master’s degrees from the Universities of Brussels (Solvay Business School) and Leuven (UCL-Business and Administration Business School IAG).
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2015 2016 2017
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies SE. Patrick Pouyanné joined the company TotalEnergies (ex-Total) in January 1997, with positions in Angola and Qatar in 1999. He held several senior responsibilities within the company (in Exploration & Production, Refining & Chemicals, the Executive Committee) until he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO in December, 2015. Previously, Patrick Pouyanné held various positions in the French Industry Ministry and in ministerial offices (1989-1996), including Environment and Industry Technical Advisor to the Prime minister (1993-1995) and Chief of Staff to the Information Technology and Space Minister (1995-1996). He is also member of the Board of several organizations such as Capgemini and Institut Polytechnique of Paris, and President of the Association française des entreprises pour l’environnement (French association of enterprises for the environment). He is a Graduate of École polytechnique and Chief Engineer of the French Corps des mines. He is a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
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2015 2016 2017 2019
Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of Shanghai Development Research Foundation (SDRF) which is a non-profit institution with the purpose of promoting research on the issues of development. Outside Expert for International Finance and Economy at the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Qiao was enrolled into Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1985. After graduation, he entered Harvard Institute for International Development and did research work. In 1995, he returned to China as Chief Representative and Managing Director of New York Life until May, 2003. Then he entered Shanghai Development Research Foundation, as responsible for the daily work, a position he still holds today. Prior to studying in the United States, he conducted research at the Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, as an Assistant Director. He is the author of Great Changes in Global Finance (2021) and China’s Integration into Global Financial System and its Impact on the Rest of the World (2019).
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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, President Emeritus and Counselor of the Israel Institute (Washington and Tel Aviv), and a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv. He served as Ambassador of Israel to the United States and Chief Negotiator with Syria in the mid-1990s, and as the President of Tel Aviv University (1999-2007). Prof. Rabinovich has been a member of Tel Aviv University’s faculty since 1971. He co-authored a book with Itai Brun, Israel Facing a New Middle East: In Search of a National Security Strategy (Hoover Institution Press, 2017). The same year, he published the biography of Yitzhak Rabin (Yale University Press). In 2023, he published Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs, and the Region, 1948 – 2022 (Brookings Institution Press).
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2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024
Former Palestinian National Authority Ambassador to the United States (1994-2995) and to Morocco (2005-2009). He is currently CEO and Vice President of the Council on Arab Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (CARLAC) and a Senior Advisor to the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE). He also served as deputy representative of the PLO to the UN in New York. He is an active participant in the Peace Process in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, serving as a senior political advisor to the Palestinian negotiating teams at the Madrid Conference of 1991, Wye River Conference and Camp David 2000 Summit. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and the University of New York.
Participation
2016
International Affairs Executive Director of Abu Dhabi Global Market. Previously, he was International Affairs Directo of the French Prudential and Resolution Authority (ACPR), an institution integrated into the Banque de France.
Participation
2016 2021
Founder and Managing Director of Camelot Trust Pte Ltd. Her focus is on family wealth and businesses. She supports her clients on family governance, sustainability of business and wealth objectives in terms of risk management and succession planning to ensure smooth transition of leadership in business and wealth transference.
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2014 2015 2016 2019 2022 2023
Foreign Desk Editor of Les Echos, the French business newspaper. Previously, she was the daily newspaper’s New York correspondent (2008-2012), where she covered the financial crisis and the two Obama presidential elections. Earlier in her career at Les Echos, she held various positions as an IT writer and created in 2000 a special section dedicated to the internet economy and to innovation. Her first job was as a business writer for 01 Informatique, the leading IT trade magazine in France. She is the author of a book L’irrésistible montée de l’économie sociale, Editions Autrement, published in March 2007. In 2021-2022, she was an auditor at the Collège des hautes études de l’institut diplomatique. Virginie is the vice President of the European-American Press Club in Paris and a member of the French Diplomatic Press Association. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Valparaiso University, IN. and a Master of Journalism from Medill School, Northwestern University, ILL.
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2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2023 2024
Member of the Deutscher Bundestag and member of the Foreign affairs committee. He served as Chairman of the Committee from 2014 until 2021. From 2009 to 2012, he was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. He has been a Member of the German Parliament since 1994. During his mandate Dr. Röttgen has fulfilled key functions within the Christian Democratic Party (CDU). Dr. Röttgen, who is a lawyer by profession, holds a PhD in Law from Bonn University. He is the Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and Board Member of various institutions, such as the Atlantik-Brücke, Asia House, Club of Three, the Hertie School of Governance Berlin and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
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2016 2023 2024
Australia’s Ambassador to the United States since March 2023. He served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. He was Member for Griffith in the Australian Parliament from 1998 to 2013. He started his diplomatic career in 1981 with postings to Beijing and Stockholm. In 1988, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Hon Wayne Goss and served him as Premier of Queensland. He was Director-General of the Cabinet Office in Queensland from 1991 to 1995, and Senior China Consultant for KPMG from 1996 to 1998. He graduated with Honours in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and received his PhD from Oxford University in 2022. He also studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. In 2015, he became inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. In 2020, he was appointed President and CEO of the Asia Society globally and, in 2022, he founded the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. In 2019, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to Indigenous reconciliation, innovative economic initiatives, and major policy reform, and through senior advisory roles with international organizations.
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2016 2019 2021 2022 2023
Chairman and CEO of Poongsan Group, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of copper products and munitions. He is actively involved in numerous business organizations, most notably as Chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), Chairman of the Korea-U.S. Business Council, Chairman of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA) and Chairman of the Korea-France Club. Additionally, he supports a number of philanthropic organizations worldwide. He serves on the Board of Governors of the PGA Tour’s First Tee Program, and is Board Chairman of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Korea as well as Vice Chairman of the Korea Mecenat Association. He also serves his alma mater Seoul National University as a member of the Advisory Committee at the Institute for Future Strategy.
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2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2024
A Saudi strategic expert specializing in international politics and regional security issues, he is the Founder and Chairman of the Gulf Research Center. Dr. Sager has also been a visiting professor at a number of universities, and member of various councils, advisory and academic committees, institutes and international research centers. He participates in international and regional conferences that address issues pertaining to the Gulf region. Notably, he has authored and edited numerous publications and has many articles in local and international newspapers related to Gulf affairs and regional issues, and he frequently contributes to major international media outlets. He is also the editor-in-chief of Araa a monthly Arabic-language magazine focused on Gulf affairs and is the editor-in-chief of The Gulf Yearbook. Dr. Sager holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Lancaster University.
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2016 2019 2022
Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences since 1998. In 1999, he was appointed Secretary Prelate of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2001, His Holiness John Paul II consecrated him titular Bishop of Vescovìo. He was also decorated as Cavaliere di gran croce of the Italian Republic in 1999, official of honour of the Légion d’Honneur by the Republic of France in 2000, Grão Mestre da Ordem de Rio Branco by the Republic of Brazil in 2004, official of the Republic of Austria in 2004, and knight of the Republic of Chile in 2006.
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2013 2015 2016
Attorney-at-law at Jones Day. His practice focuses on regulatory compliance and encompasses a broad range of government regulations, product safety, installment sales regulations, commercial transactions regulations, foreign direct investment regulation, energy and environment, and competition law. He represents various clients in civil disputes. He spent 35 years at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. During his tenure as Director-General of the Trade Policy Bureau and Vice Minister for International Affairs, he worked in the field of international trade policy. He served as Chief Executive Assistant to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2009-2010).
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024
Head of the Turkey / Middle East program at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). She joined Ifri in 2002 to work on the European policies in the Mediterranean region and in the Middle East, on the regional political and economic dynamics and on the Arab policy of France. She started the “Contemporary Turkey” research program in 2008, to follow the emergence of Turkey as a global power. Her present research focuses on Turkish diplomacy, new regional conflicts and their impact on Middle East economies. She directed the book entitled La Turquie au Moyen-Orient : une puissance régionale ? (Turkey in the Middle East: a regional power?), published by CNRS éditions in December 2011, and authored La Turquie en cent questions (A Hundred questions about Turkey, Tallandier, 2023). She graduated from Sciences Po Paris. She holds a postgraduate degree in applied economics and a PhD in political science.
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2008 2012 2016 2019 2022 2023 2024
Program Associate, African Higher Education Program, TrustAfrica. She is an independent consultant specialized in education reforms, vocational training and youth empowerment in Africa. Since 2010 she works with international donors, governments and non-profits to create a stronger nexus between policies and community’s needs. She recently coordinated the first continental summit on the ‘Revitalization of African Higher Education’. She also works for the economic and social reinsertion of street children. In 2016 she was honored with President Obama’s prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. She graduated from ISM and from the Sorbonne.
Participation
2016
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the State of Qatar since 2015. Previously, he served as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Head of Iran department and non-resident Chargé d’affaires to Iran (2012-2015). He played a role in the recent Iran nuclear negotiations and was involved in the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran in August 2015. He has had previous diplomatic postings in Paris, Ankara and Moscow.
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2016
Former Ambassador of Israel to France. During his 27-year long career in Israel’s diplomatic service, he also served as Director of European Affairs, Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry and Consul General in San Francisco. He has extensive experience in European Affairs and has participated in several chapters of Arab-Israeli negotiations, in particular while working with the late Shimon Peres. He has for many years taken part in devising media strategies for the Foreign Ministry and is considered an expert on public diplomacy. Since leaving the Foreign Service, he serves as a private consultant and teaches Diplomacy at Tel Aviv University. He is among the leaders of the “Track II Environmental Forum”, an Israeli-Palestinian NGO devoted to resolving cross-border environmental challenges through environmental diplomacy. Since October 7 2013, he has been directing the international operations of the Forum of Families of Hostages, a civil society-based NGO.
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2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2024
Founder and President of Synergia, a strategic affairs do tank that provides insights and advisory services to industry, government and research institutions in geopolitics, security, and economics. He was a Commissioner with the Global Commission for Internet Governance and a member of the Trilateral Commission. He served as an advisory board member for six years at The Centre for New American Security and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is University topper, a special invitee of the Prime Minister, holds a postgraduate degree in management, graduated from Harvard Business School, and is a Research Associate at MIT.
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2022 2023 2024
Ambassador of France. He was advisor to the French Foreign Minister and the Minister of Cooperation. He served in numerous embassies all over the world, notably as Counselor and Consul General before being appointed as French Ambassador to Central African Republic (1996-2001), to Nigeria (2001-2003), to Gabon (2003-2008), and to Côte d’Ivoire (2009-2012). He was also a Representative to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and to the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). . He was alternate MP of Oise from 2012 to 2022, and is currently Chairman of Eurafrique Stratégies SAS. He graduated from Paris II Assas University in Public Law.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2024
Secretary General of the Study Committee for Franco-German Relations (Cerfa), Ifri. He has been professor of contemporary German civilization at Paris-Sorbonne University since 2012 after teaching at New Sorbonne University from 2005 to 2012 as senior lecturer. He graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo) in 1987, majoring in International Relations. Furthermore, he holds a Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from SciencesPo (1990) and a PhD in political sciences from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2001).
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2008 2011 2016 2017
Co-founder and CEO of Joko. Before co-founding Joko, he worked at the Ministry of Finance in the Treasury Department. Prior to that, he was Managing Director for French-speaking Africa at Jumia Travel. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and an Engineer of the French Corps des Mines.
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2016 2017 2019
President of Club România. He started his career in journalism in 1990 as editor of the Tineretul Liber newspaper. He then worked as a press correspondent for a Romanian newspaper and TV channel, in Hungary and Republic of Moldova. He then became Personal Advisor for the Secretary of State for the Romanians Abroad (2000) and for the Minister of Tourism (2001-2003). He was Under Secretary of State for Foreign Trade (2009). He is a member of Chatham House, London, and also a member of the Aspen Institute Romania. He graduated in Journalism and Communication Sciences.
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2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021
President of Grampet Group, the most important Central and East-European actor in the field of railway transport and logistics services. He established Grampet Group in 2000. In September 2012, he was appointed President of the Romania-Kazakhstan Business Council. He started business in 1990, when he opened his first company. Since 1990 until now he held only top management positions, being responsible for the strategic development of his company. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and the National Defense College, Carol I National Defense University also in Bucharest and the Europe of Tomorrow Academic Society.
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2012 2013 2016 2017
Chief Business Officer and member of the Executive Committee at Cellectis. Cellectis is a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies. Arthur is also a Board member at Primera Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing patient-centric gene therapies targeting the root cause of mitochondrial disorders, and a Board Advisor of the US non-profit Life Science Cares. Arthur began his career at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition controlling global pharmaceutical mergers. He later became Head of the Hospital Financing unit at the French Ministry of Health, where he led a team responsible for the national hospital budget. Arthur graduated from the École normale supérieure and Cambridge University, and holds a diploma in Immunotherapy from the University of Paris. Arthur is also a member of the French Corps des mines.
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2016 2017 2018 2020
President of Berit International Holding SA, President of Batiliban-France, Franco-Arab Consortium for development, board member of the executive committee of the Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Paris, board member and founding member of the Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce, Beyrouth. He was Advisor to the Lebanese President for the French-speaking world (1986-1988) and Advisor to the Minister of Finance for the private sector (1999-2001). He is the author of numerous books and studies on economic development, environment and land-use planning. He graduated from the Institut d’Urbanisme, Paris-Sorbonne University.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Regional Anti-Corruption and Economic Governance Advisor for UNDP Africa. He joined UNDP through the Leadership Development Programme (LEAD). He has served as Country Programme Specialist and Project Manager for the Peace Consolidation and Governance project in UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa, in New York. Before joining UNDP, he was a litigating attorney in Cameroon and New York. He is a World Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University, USA. He graduated from Columbia University School of Law, New York, from the Central European University, Hungary, and from the University of Yaoundé II SOA, Cameroon.
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2016
Former President of the French “Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques”. He is honorary chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bruegel Institute (Brussels), honorary chairman of the Group of Thirty (Washington) and former European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Jean-Claude Trichet was President of the European Central Bank (2003-2011). He was Governor of Banque de France (1993-2003) and Undersecretary of the French Treasury (1987- 1993). He was President of the Paris Club (debt rescheduling) (1985-1993), President of the European Monetary Committee (1992-1993), President of the Group of 10 Central Banks Governors and President of the Global economy meeting in Basel (2002-2011). He was President of Sogepa (Société de Gestion des Participations Aéronautiques) (2012-2013) and Director of Airbus Group (2012-2018). He was named “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times in 2007 and n° 5 of the “World Most Powerful” in the Newsweek list (2008). Born in Lyon in 1942, Jean-Claude Trichet is an honorary inspecteur général des Finances and ingénieur civil des Mines. He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, of the Université de Paris (in economics) and of the École Nationale d’Administration. Jean-Claude Trichet has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities.
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2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
A French historian, he was appointed Director of Policy Planning at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March 2013. In this role, he advises the Minister on his strategic decisions and provides background analysis and forecast on international affairs. Prior to this appointment, Justin Vaïsse was Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor at SAIS (Johns Hopkins University). An Associate teacher at the Paris School of International Affairs, Dr. Vaïsse is the author of numerous books on the United States, including Neoconservatism – The Biography of a Movement (Harvard University Press, 2010). His biography of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was published in France in early 2016 and will come out in English in 2017.
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2014 2015 2016 2017
Professor at Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po Paris. President of the Advisory Board of EUBrasil association (Brussels). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at OCP Policy Center (Rabat) and Director of Latin America Research Chair at the Centre d’Etudes Sociales, Economiques et Managériales (CESEM – HEM Rabat). He is a Member of the Committee of Rencontres Internationales de Genève, a Member of the Advisory Council of Janus.net (journal of International Relations), Portugal. Journalist, columnist for Radio France Internationale (RFI – Brazilian Service), he has published extensively on geopolitics, global economics, regional integration and trade negotiations, Brazil and Latin America. He holds a PhD in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Paris.
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2016
Founder of Hubert Védrine Conseil, a public affairs consultancy specialized in international, economic and geopolitical issues. He was President of the Institut François Mitterrand until 2022. Prior to that, Hubert Védrine served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of Lionel Jospin from June 1997 to May 2002. From 1996 to 1997, he was a partner in the law firm Jeantet et Associés. He was a member of the French Council of State as maître des requêtes in 1986-1988 and 1995-1996, and then in 2002-2003. From 2005 to 2021, he led a seminar at Sciences Po Paris on the perception of threats in international relations. From 1981 to 1995, he was diplomatic advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, spokesman and, from 1991 to 1995, Secretary-General. Before that, he was a civil administrator in the Ministry of Culture from 1974 to 1981. In 2020, he was appointed by France to participate in the group of personalities in charge of a reflection on the future of NATO in 2030. He is the author of numerous books. In June 2020, he published an essay on the pandemic, Et après ? (Fayard), in 2021, Dictionnaire amoureux de la géopolitique and in 2022, Une Vision du Monde (BOUQUINS) which brings together his main texts of the last 30 years. In 2024, he edited the collective work Les Grands diplomates (Perrin), published a new edition of his Atlas of Crises and Conflicts (with Pascal Boniface) and wrote a very personal text entitled Camus, notre rempart (Plon). In January 2025, he will publish Nouveau Dictionnaire amoureux de la géopolitique (Plon). Mr. Védrine also has a degree in history, and is an alumnus of ENA.
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2024
CEO of Pronutri, Activa and Nutrilab laboratories. He turned Pronutri into a worldwide developed company, bringing it to a new level and making it one of the major players on the market of health dietary supplements. He extended the scope of Pronutri with international subsidiaries in Europe, the USA and Asia, making Nutripuncture™ a worldwide brand. He created in 1999 the Activa Laboratories with the objective to establish a new and innovative set of technologies in the world of health dietary supplements. He graduated from the Dauphine University (Paris, France) with a major in finance and marketing.
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2012 2013 2016 2017 2019
Founding President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University and Professor in the School of International Studies. He has been Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017. He is Honorary President of the Chinese Association for American Studies, and was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Foreign Ministry (2008-2016). He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-1991), and then served as Director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until 2005. From 2005 to 2013, he served as dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He was concurrently Director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (2001- 2009). He was a Global Scholar at Princeton University (2011-2015). He obtained an MA degree from Peking University.
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2012 2016 2018 2021 2022
Member of Total Professeurs Associés, and of the French Energy Council. He was Executive Vice President at Total in charge of Strategy and Risk Assessment (2000-2008). He was Chief Financial Officer of Elf Aquitaine (1994-2000). He began his career at the Ministry for Industry (1972-1978), then he joined the Prime Minister Raymond Barre’s cabinet (1978-1981). He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Ecole des mines in Paris. He holds a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023 2024
Vice-President of the Board, Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG). He worked at the Ministry of Finance and at the Ministry of Economy, where he led the Oil and Gas Department (2003-2008). He represented Poland at IEA Governing Board meetings. He was Poland Prime Minister’s chief adviser on Energy Security (2008-2010). He represented Poland in the Visehrad Four High-Level Group on Energy and the EC’s Group for the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan. He advised the Environment Minister and Chief Geologist on the geological and mining law reform on shale gas (2011-2013). He graduated from Cracow University of Economics and the National School of Public Administration.
Participation
2016
Senior Advisor at Lee International IP & Law Group. Previously, he held the position of President of the Korea Foundation (2007-2010). He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974 and served, among others, as Korean Ambassador to Canada (2004-2007) and Egypt (1996-1999). In 2001, he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and in 2002, he was appointed as the National Security Advisor to President Kim Dae-jung. He formerly co-chaired the Korea-Canada Forum. He graduated from Seoul National University, Oxford University and Keio University.
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2009 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2022 2023
Executive Vice President, CHO of BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) Group. Previously, she was the Project Director of The Southern Securities Investment Bank, Vice Dean of School of Economics and Management at Tongji University, Executive Dean of Chinese Academy of Science and Technology Management. She was also a visiting scholar of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (2005-2007) and a visiting scholar of Gothenburg University in Sweden (2012). Her research focuses on innovation management and policy. She has also published a book entitled Power of Innovation and more than 30 papers in high-impact journals and conference domestically and internationally.