A selection of speeches and the sessions of the Rome MED – Mediterranean Dialogues events
Welcoming Remarks Giampiero Massolo, President, ISPI, Italy Claudio Descalzi, CEO, Eni, Italy Alessandro Profumo, CEO, Leonardo, Italy Keynote Speeches Angelino Alfano, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Michel Aoun, President, Lebanon
Chair: Thomas Gomart, Director, IFRI,France Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General, Arab League Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq Yousef bin Ahmad al-Othmaimeen, Secretary General, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Robert Malley, Vice President for Policy, International Crisis Group, USA
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran in conversation with Monica Maggioni, President, Rai Nicolas Pelham, The Economist
Ahmed Omar Maiteeg, Vice President, Presidential Council, Libya in conversation with Alberto Negri, Il Sole 24 Ore Francesca Paci, La Stampa
Ying Fu, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, National People’s Congress, China in conversation with Mark Leonard Director, ECFR
Chair: Andrea Bignami, Sky TG24 Speakers: Thamer Alfailakawi, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Saad Ahmed al-Mohannadi, President, Ashghal, Qatar Fouad Makhzoumi, Executive Chairman and CEO, Future Pipe Industries, Lebanon Beniamino Quintieri, President, SACE, Italy Naguib Sawiris, CEO, Orascom – Telecom Media and Technology Holding, Egypt
Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt In conversation with Gerardo Greco, Rai Nicolas Pelham, The Economist
Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President, European Commission In conversation with James Politi, Financial Times Maha Yahya, Director, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon
Chair: Giampiero Massolo, President, ISPI, Italy Speakers: Alessandro Profumo, CEO, Leonardo, Italy Youssef Amrani, Advisor of the King, Morocco Alistair Burt, Minister of State for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK Rose Gottemoller, Deputy Secretary General, NATO Ahmet Yildiz, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Chair: Maria Cuffaro, Rai Speakers Lea Baroudi, Co-Founder and Director, March, Lebanon Hind Aboud Kabawat, Member of the Syrian High Negotiations Committee; Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding Center, George Mason University, USA Honey Thaljieh, Save the Dream Ambassador; Co-founder of the Palestinian Women’s National Football Team; FIFA Manager
Chair: Stefano Polli, ANSA Speakers: Alain Aoun, Vice Chair, Defence and Interior Committee, Lebanese Parliament Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center, Morocco Olivier Roy, Joint Chair in Mediterranean Studies, EUI Lorenzo Vidino, Head, Radicalization and International Terrorism Center, ISPI, Italy
Chair: Claire Spencer, Senior Fellow, Chatham House, UK Speakers: Claudio Descalzi, CEO, Eni, Italy Talal al-Rahbi, Deputy Secretary General, Supreme Council for Planning, Oman Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency Tarek El Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Egypt
Chair: Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President and Director, ISPI, Italy Speakers: Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Mario Giro, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Khemaies Jhinaoui, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tunisia Abdelkader Messahel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria Ibrahim Yacoubou, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Niger
Sergej Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation in conversation with Giancarlo Aragona, Senior Advisor, ISPI, Italy Vali Nasr, Dean, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Adel Al-Jubeir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia in conversation with Monica Maggioni, President, Rai Maurizio Molinari, Editor in Chief, La Stampa
Chair: James Mcgann, Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA Speakers: Ian Lesser, Vice President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Belgium Robert Malley, Vice President for Policy, International Crisis Group, USA Walter Russell Mead, Editor, The American Interest, USA
Siqing Chen, Chairman, Bank of China Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA in conversation with Andrea Cabrini, CLASS CNBC
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar in conversation with Alberto Negri, Il Sole 24 Ore David Hearst, Middle East Eye
Abraham Yehoshua, Writer, Israel in conversation with Enrica Toninelli, Rai
Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative and Head of UNSMIL, United Nations In conversation with Giorgio Zanchini, Rai Sami Zaptia, Libya Herald
Angelino Alfano, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Italy Paolo Gentiloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy At The Presence Of The President Emeritus Of The Italian Republic And Honorary President Of Ispi Giorgio Napolitano
