Speakers & Chairs

Ahmed Aboul-Gheit
Secretary-General, Arab League
Adnane Addioui
President, Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Morocco
Samir Aita
President, Circle of Arab Economists, France
Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi
Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oman
Abdul Aziz Abdulla al-Ghurair
Director and CEO, Mashreq Bank, United Arab States
Mohammed al-Hadid
President, Jordan National Red Crescent Society, Jordan
Ibrahim Abdul-Kareem Hamza al-Eshaiker al-Jaafari
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq
Khalid al-Jindan
Vice Minister for Political and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia
Faris Mohammed al-Mazrouei
Assistant Foreign Minister, Security and Military Affairs, United Arab Emirates
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
Alain Aoun
Vice-Chair, Defense & Interior Committee of the Parliament, Lebanon
José Alberto Azeredo Lopes
Minister of National Defense, Portugal
Rosa Balfour
Acting Director of the Europe Programme, GMF, Germany
Ameur Bchir
CEO, STEG, Tunisia
Elisabetta Belloni
Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Mike Bezos
President and co-founder, Bezos Family Foundation, USA
Emma Bonino
Co-Chair, ECFR, Italy
Ouided Bouchamaoui
Nobel Peace Prize 2015, Tunisia
Ditmir Bushati
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Albania
Andrea Cabrini
Director, Class CNBC and Class Life, Italy
Hela Cheikhrouhou
Minister of Energy, Mining and Renewable Energy, Tunisia
Marta Dassù
Senior Director of European Affairs, The Aspen Institute, Italy
Maria Demertzis
Research Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium
Claudio Descalzi
CEO, Eni Spa, Italy
Massimo De Andreis
General Manager, Studi Ricerche Mezzogiorno (SRM), Italy
Staffan De Mistura
Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations
Karim El-Aynaoui
Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco
Dina Fakoussa
Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme, DGAP, Germany
Samar Fatany
writer and columnist, Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia
Paul Richard Gallagher
Secretary for Relations with States, Holy See
Fabio Gallia
CEO, Cassa depositi e Prestiti Spa, Italy
Paolo Gentiloni
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
Ellie Geranmayeh
Policy Fellow, ECFR, United Kingdom
Hafez Ghanem
Vice-President, MENA, World Bank
Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sudan
Rashid Ghannouchi
President, Ennahda Party, Tunisia
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck
El-Erian Fellow, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon
Gioia Ghezzi
President, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Italy
Nedžad Grabus
Head of the Muslim Community, Slovenia
Filippo Grandi
High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations
Nasser Hadian
Professor, Tehran University, Iran
Farhat Horchani
Minister of National Defense, Tunisia
Boris Johnson
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom
Wolfgang Kaschuba
Director, BIM, Germany
John F. Kerry
Secretary of State, United States of America
Gilles Kepel
Professor, SciencesPo, France
Bassma Kodmani
Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative, Syria/France
Michael Köhler
Director for EU-Neighbourhood Policy, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, European Commission
Sergej Lavrov
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia
Mark Leonard
Director, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), United Kingdom
Mary Beth Long
Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
Monica Maggioni
President, RAI, Italy
Paolo Magri
Executive Vice-President and Director, ISPI, Italy
Fouad Makhzoumi
President, Makhzoumi Foundation, Lebanon; Executive Chairman and CEO, Future Pipe Industries, United Arab Emirates
Peter Mandaville
Senior Advisor, Religion & Global Affairs (S/RGA), Office of the Secretary of State, Department of State, United States of America
Giampiero Massolo
Chairman, Fincantieri; President-elect, ISPI , Italy
Walter Russell Mead
Editor, “The American Interest”, United States of America
Federica Mogherini
EU-High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President, European Commission
Maurizio Molinari
Editor in Chief, “La Stampa”, Italy
Mauro Moretti
CEO and General Manager of Leonardo-Finmeccanica Spa, Italy
Giorgio Napolitano
Honorary President, ISPI,, Italy
Luigi Narbone
Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Italy
Vali Nasr
Dean, Paul H. Nitze SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Saida Naghza
Vice-President, General Confederation of Algerian Enterprises (CGEA), Algeria
Robin Niblett
Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Onyeama
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria
Panos Papoulias
Assistant Director of Programmes and Strategic Initiatives, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Greece
Roberta Pinotti
Minister of Defence, Italy
James Politi
Chief, Financial Times, Rome Bureau
Stefano Polli
Deputy Director of Ansa
Olivier Roy
Chair, European University Institute (EUI), Italy
Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour
Center for International Research and Education, Foreign Ministry; President, IPIS, Iran
Mustafa Sanalla
President, National Oil Corporation (NOC), Libya
Naguib Sawiris
CEO, Orascom - Telecom Media and Technology Holding, Egypt
Dorothée Schmid
Head of the Turkey and Middle East Programme, IFRI, France
Carlo Secchi
Professor Emeritus, Bocconi University; President, ISPI, Italy
Claire Spencer
Senior Research, Chatham House, United Kingdom
Valeria Termini
Vice-President, Association of Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MEDREG), European Union
Frans Timmermans
First Vice-President of the European Commission
Sarah Toumi
‘Dream in Tunisia’, Forbes ’30 under 30’list
Ugo Tramballi
Columnist, “Il Sole 24 Ore”
Francesco Venturini
CEO, Enel Green Power, Italy; President RES4MED
Antonio Villafranca
Reseach Coordinator and Head of the European Programme at ISPI, Italy
Gong Xiaosheng
Ambassador, Special Envoy to the Middle East, China
Ahmet Yildiz
Deputy Foreign Minister, Turkey