Speakers

Uduak Amimo, Journalist and Consultant

Zeinab Badawi, Director, Kush Communications

Juan Battaleme, Academic Director, Argentine Council for International Affairs (CARI)

Ana Barreto, Director of Programs, AfroResistance (AD Emerging Leader)

Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Jessica Berlin, Founder and Managing Director, CoStruct (AD Emerging Leader)

Prince Boadu, CEO and co-founder, MapTech Logistics Limited (AD Emerging Leader)

Pascal Boniface, Founding Director, French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

Bronwyn Bruton, Director of Programs and Studies, Atlantic Council

Gabriele Cascone, Head of the Counter-Terrorism Section, NATO

Abdoullah Coulibaly, President, Bamako Forum (to be confirmed)

Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Marcus de Freitas, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Neelam Deo, Founder and Director, Gateway House Indian Council on Global Relations

Bineta Diop, Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, African Union Commision

Mvemba Dizolele, Lecturer in African Studies, John Hopkins University

Nkosana Donald Moyo, Founder and Chairman, Mandela Institute for Development Studies

Kimberly Dozier, Magazine Contributor, Time ; Global Affairs Analyst, CNN

Tosin Durotoye, CEO and Primary Consultant, Conselia Advisory (AD Emerging Leader)

Bushra Ebadi, Youth Ambassador, Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy ; Co-founder, Health and Information Literacy Access Alliance (AD Emerging Leader)

Adil El Madani, Private Sector Development Expert, Enable (AD Emerging Leader)

Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative

Kassie Freeman, President & CEO, African Diaspora Consortium

Anabel Gonzales, Former Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica

Jessica Gottsleben, Innovative Servant Leader, Young Leaders Council (AD Emerging Leader)

Sarah Glover, Manager of Social Media Strategy, NBC (to be confirmed)

Claude Grunitzky, Founder, Trace and True Africa

Nchimunya Hamukoma, Policy Strategist, African Futures (AD Emerging Leader)

Len Ishmael, Len Ishmael, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Omayra Issa, journalist, Radio-Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (AD Emerging Leader)

Laoye Jaiyeola, CEO, Nigerian Economic Summit Group

Alex T. Johnson, Chief of Staff, U.S. Helsinki Commission (AD Emerging Leader)

Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation

Alan Kasujja, Lead Presenter, Newsday, BBC News

Andreas Kraemer, Founder, Ecologic Institute

Vera Kwakofi, Africa TV Editor, BBC World Service Group (to be confirmed)

Ian Lesser, Vice President and Executive Director, Brussels, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Reta Jo Lewis, Director of Congressional Affairs and a Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Mohammed Loulichki, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Richard Lui, Journalist and Anchor, MSNBC and NBC News

Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President and Director, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

Jamil Mahuad, Former President of Ecuador

Muhammadou M.O. Kah, Vice President For Academic Affairs & Provost ; Professor of Information Technologies & Computing, The American University of Nigeria

Saïd Mouline, CEO, Moroccan Agency for Energy Efficiency AMEE

Amre Moussa, Former Secretary-General of the Arab League, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt

Jana Nelson, Latin America Lead, Amazon Web Services Institute (AD Emerging Leader)

Paulo Portas, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal

Federico Ramón Puerta, Former President of Argentina

Thomas Richter, Director, Berlin & Brussels, Avisa Partners (AD Emerging Leader)

Andrea Richter-Garry, Vice President for International Engagement, Indiana Economic Development Corporation (AD Emerging Leader)

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Former President of Costa Rica

Andrés Rozental, President, Rozental & Asociados ; Founder, Mexican Council on Foreign Relation

Lourival Sant’Anna, International Affairs Reporter and Analyst, CNN Brazil; Columnist, O Estado de São Paulo

Mayecor Sar, Senior Manager, Government and Public Sector Practice, Deloitte (AD Emerging Leader)

John Sawers, Executive Chairman of Newbridge Advisory, former Chief of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Andres Schipani, Brazil Correspondent, Financial Times

Barre Seguin, NATO Senior Mentor, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe SHAPE

Trisha Shetty, Founder & CEO, SheSays

Bernardo Sorj, Director, Edelstein Center for Social Research

Sergio Suchodolski, President, Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais

Aminata Toure, Former Prime Minister of Senegal ; President, Economic Social and Environmental Council

Daniela Varela, Member, Argentine Council for International Affairs (CARI) (AD Emerging Leader)

Hubert Védrine, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, France

Kheston Walkins, CEO, Chief NeuroInnovation Officer, Allegori (AD Emerging Leader)

Ignacio Walker, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chile

Richard Werly, European Affairs Correspondent, Le Temps

John Yearwood, President and CEO, Yearwood Media Group
Zhou Yuyuan, Senior Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)

486 high-level senior officials, business leaders, academics, opinion shapers and civil society actors. Morocco has been host to these gatherings given its location and close relations to all countries bordering the Atlantic.