Participants 2015
Jalal Abdel-Latif, Head, Governance and Human Security Team, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Hafsat Abiola, Human and Civil Rights Campaigner, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
Carolina Abrusci Quijada, Professor, School of Political Science, Central University of Venezuela
Didier Acouety, President and Founder, AfricSearch Group
Olukorede Adenowo, Managing Director, Regional Head of Financial Institutions for West and Central Africa, Standard Chartered Bank
Yonov Agah, Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization
Ilham Ait Bouazza, Head of Department, National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Morocco
Jihane Ajiti, Manager, Corporate Development, OCP Group
Aïcha Akalay, Publishing Director of Telquel.ma, Telquel
Surajudeen Ayobami Akande, Personal Assistant to Former President Obansajo, Africa Progress Panel
Ahmed Akhchichine, President, Regional Council of Marrakech - Tensift-Al Haouz
Rolake Akinkugbe, VP & Head, Energy and Natural Resources, Origination and Client Coverage, FBN Capital
Obed Boamah Akwa, Commandant/Executive Director, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
Driss Alaoui M'Daghri, Professor, Al Akhawayn University
Jaime Alexandre Nogueira Pinto, Director, Futuro- Presente
Caroline Alexis-Thomas, Health Consultant, University of Trinidad and Tobago
Patricia Antoine, Director of Research and Advocacy, GrenCHAP
Neyla Arnas, Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University
Ali Aslan, TV Host and Journalist
Marcel Assemien, Beans Sourcing Director, Archer Daniels Midland
Hassan Ba, Co-Founder, Femme Africa Solidarites
Felizia Bacall, Consultant, Bridgespan Group
Jordi Bacaria, Director, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
Ampadu Banasco, ADC to Major General Obed Akwa, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
Majida Bargach, Lecturer and Associate Directo, Department of French, University of Virginia
Cristina Barrios Fernandez, Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies
Abdelhak Bassou, Research Associate, Royal Institute of Strategic Studies
Nayé Bathily, Head Global Parliamentary Relations, The World Bank & International Finance Corporation
Giuseppe Battaglia, Head of International Cooperation Office, Carabinieri
Hassan Benabderrazik, Former Secretary General, Agroconcept
Oussama Benachour
Zineb Benalla, CEO, TICVE Building Peace
Mohammed Benhammou, President, Moroccan Center for Strategic Studies
Linda Benkaiouche, Civil Servant, Federal Government of Canada
Mohamed Benkamoun, Chief of Staff, Chairman's Office, OCP Group
Amina Benkhadra, General Director, National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines, Kingdom of Morocco
Othmane Bennani-Smires, Executive Director/General Counsel, OCP Foundation
Mehdi Bensaid, President, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Islamic Affairs, and Moroccans residing abroad
Assia Bensalah Alaoui, Ambassador at Large of HM the King of Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco
Diogo Bercito, Journalist, Folha de Sao Paulo
Mohammed Berrada, Professor of Economics, Former Minister of Finance, University of Casablanca
Khalid Berradi, Office of the Chairman & CEO, OCP Policy Center
Courtney Bickert, Vice President, Development and Partnerships, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Allison Binns, Senior Advisor, Chevron
Deborah Birx, Ambassador at Large and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator & U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Julie Bleeker, Consultant, Akkanto
Prince Boadu, Co-founder/CEO, MapTech Logistics Limited
Dominique Bocquet, General Finance and Economic Controller, Ministry of Finance, France
Ezana Bocresion, Managing Partner, Aeneas Holdings, LLC
Elizabeth Boswell Rega, Director, Communications, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Zolika Bouabdallah, Senior Counsel, Islamic Finance Expert, Agence Française de Développement
Rita Bourichi
Mark Anthony Brantley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation, Government of St. Kitts & Nevis
Enrique Bravo Escobar, Political Analyst and Consultant, Georgetown University
Charles Buchanan, Vice President, SYSTEMICSPHERE
Dwight Bush Sr., Ambassador, Embassy of the United States of America
Alexandru Cosmin Buteica, Operations Analyst - Climate Change, The World Bank & International Finance Corporation
Felipe Cala Buendia, Global Advocacy and Policy Advisor, ChildFund Alliance
Rafael Cámara, Partner, Deloitte
Raphael Camargo, Master's candidate in Management of Governance Networks, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Christopher Campbell, Republican Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Jonathan Capehart, Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Harold Cárdenas Lema, Founder and Manager, La Joven Cuba
Jorge Castañeda, Global Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University
Hassan Chadli, Head of Operations, Africa, OCP Group
Mohamed Chafiki, Director for Economic Studies, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Kingdom of Morocco
Hakimi Chakira, Manager, KC Invest
Phinith Chanthalangsy, Assistant Program Specialist, UNESCO
Tarik Choho, Managing Director, International Development, OCP Group
Gregory Craig, Partner, Litigation, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Pedro da Motta Veiga, Director, Centre for Studies in Integration and Development (CINDES)
Charles Dahan, Board Member, 6th Grain
Paula De Castro Bonilla, Project Manager, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
Adriana de Queiroz, Managing Partner, A2 Global Trade
Malik Dechambenoit, Political Analyst and Mediator, Albright Stonebridge Group
Sophie Dembinski, Senior Policy Advisor, International Chamber of Commerce
Hendrik Descheemaeker, Managing Director Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Deloitte
Ibrahima Dia, General Manger, Financial Afrik
Rut Diamint, Professor, Torcuato Di Tella University
Adil Diani, Advisor, Ministry of Energy, Morocco
Momar Dieng, Journalist, Vice-versa Communication
Birame Diop, Chief of Staff, Air Force, Senegal
Marieme Diop, Desk Manager, President’s Delivery Unit, Senegal
Nerys Dockery, Senior Foreign Sevice Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of St. Kitts and Nevis
Marcela Donadio, Executive Secretary, Latin American Security and Defence Network
Karen Donfried, President, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Serge Doukoure, Sector Manager, Prime Minister Cabinet, Côte d'Ivoire
Teocah Dove, Youth, Gender and Community Development Consultant, The Teocah Dove Legacy Foundation
Gwendolyn Dulla, Associate Director, Deloitte
Frederico Salomao Duque Estrada Meyer, Ambassador, Embassy of Brazil
Henriette Ekwe-Ebongo, Founder, Cameroon Branch Journalist, Equinoxe TV Political Chronicles
Imane El Andaloussi, Legal Counsel, OCP Group
Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center and Advisor to the CEO and Chairman, OCP Group, OCP Policy Center
Khalid El Hariry, Chairman, Telquel
Alae Edine El Jaafari, Program Officer, Moroccan Ministry of General Affairs and Governance
Halima El Joundi, Founder/Project Developer, DisxAbled
Mohamed El Kadiri, Deputy Director General, OCP Group
Nadia El Mahjoubi, Advisor, Royal Cabinet, Kingdom of Morocco
Aziz El Mallah, General Manager, Jacos Engineering SA
James Elias Junior, Foreign Trade Analyst, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil
Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Ambassador to Germany, Foreign Ministry of Mexico
Yacine Fal, Resident Representative, African Development Bank
Liz Fanning, Founder, CorpsAfrica
B Fariat, Advisor to the Minister, Moroccan Ministry of Tourism
Anas Filali, Web Influencer, LOREM
Helga Flores Trejo, External Relations Principal Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank
Eve Fofana, Deputy Country Manager, General Electric
Isaac Fokuo, CEO, African Leadership Network
Ana Fonseca, Mission Chief, International Organization of Migration
Fabrice Fortin, Senior Commercial Advisor MENA, Royal Dutch Shell
Marcus Vinicius De Freitas, Professor of Law and International Relations, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation
Winston Fritsch, Chief Executive Officer, Petra Energia S.A
Michaela Fronkova, Ambassador to Morocco, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Hildegard Gacek, Managing Director, Southern & Eastern Mediterranean Region, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
John Gallagher, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jaime Gama, Senior Strategic Counsel, Albright Stonebridge Group
Geraldine Gardner, Director, Urban and Regional Policy, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jeffrey Gelman, Senior Advisor to Treaty Ambassador, International Security & Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State
Thami Ghorfi, President, Aswat/ESCA
Nik Gowing, International Broadcaster
Ettore Greco, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali
Georges Guibert, Chargé de Mission,Secretariat Generale, OCP Group
Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, Director, Agence Maghreb Arab Press
Lahcen Haddad, Minister of Tourism, Kingdom of Morocco
Fatima Hadj, Investment Manager, Tikehau
Anissa Hanson, Executive Assistant to the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy
Marouane Harmach, Web Influencer, Consultor
Wenping He, Head of Africa Research Program, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Masmoudi Hicham, Bank Al-Maghrib
Sheldon Himelfarb, President and CEO, PeaceTech Lab
Katrin Hirseland, Head of the Office of the President, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
Veronique Hob-Hob, Marketing Manager, Bridge Africa
Greg Horowitt, Co-Founder, Managing Director, T2 Venture Creation
Aubrey Hruby, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council of the United States
Aomar Ibourk, Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center
Masafumi Ishii, Ambassador to Belgium and Representative of the Government of Japan to NATO, Embassy of Japan
Len Ishmael, Ambassador to Belgium and Head of Mission to the EU, Embassy of the Eastern Caribbean States
Tokunboh Ishmael, Managing Director, Alitheia Capital
Debbi Iwig, Vice President and CFO, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Dhruva Jaishankar, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Yves Jegourel, Professor, University of Bordeaux
Chris Johnson, General Manager, Global LNG Europe and Africa, Royal Dutch Shell
Gina Jones, Special Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense
Sophie Jouineau, Consultant Defense and Security / Latin America, ITG Consultants
Rupert Joy, Ambassador, Delegation of the European Union to the Kingdom of Morocco
Hicham Kabbaj, Business Development Director, Jacobs Engineering SA
Sara Kadaoui, Project Manager, M2t
Martine Kappel, Founder, True North Leadership
Mats Karlsson, Director, The Swedish Institute of Internatonal Affairs (UI)
Alan Kasujja, Radio Presenter, BBC
Saran Keita, President, Mali Branch, Network of Peace and Security for Women in the ECOWAS Region
Peter Kellner, President, You Gov
Craig Kennedy, Partner, Creative Engagement
Adnan Kifayat, Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jim Kolbe, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Chairman, Institute for Internatioal and European Environmental Policy
Driss Ksikes, Director, Centre de Recherche de HEM
Kamal Rafik Lahlou, Editorial Director, Challenges
Kamal Lahlou, Economist, Bank Al-Maghrib
Ahmed Larouz, President, The Cedar Network
Christian Leffler, Deputy Secretary General for Economic and Global Issues, European External Action Service
Michael Leibeck, Senior Policy Advisor, European Parliament
Carlos Raul Leon Gomez, Economic Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank
Ian Lesser, Executive Director, Brussels Office and Senior Director for Foreign and Security Policy, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador, Institute of France
Joaquim Levy, Minister, Ministry of Finance, Brazil
Nicola Lightner, Director, Major Conferences, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Elias Links, Professor, Stellenbosch University
Moubarack Lo, President, Institut de l'Emergence
Cecilia Lopez Pablos, Consultant- Legal Advisor, Cabinet of Ministers, Argentina
Mohamed Loulichki, Ambassador, Kingdom of Morocco
Gabriela Macagni, Managing Director, Endeavor Argentina
Jerrold Mallory, Economic Advisor, Embassy of the United States of America
Ayoub Mamdouh, Head of Strategic & Quantitative Research Department, OCP Group
Lindo Mandela, Director, Stakeholder Relations, Mandela Legacy
Jose Gutierrez Maxwell, Ambassador, Embassy of Argentina
Janice Mays, Staff Director; Chief Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means
Samuel Mbrayeh Quarty, Ambassador, Embassy of Ghana
William McIlhenny, Senior Wider Atlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Kerry McNamara, Advisor to the Chairman & CEO, OCP Group
Pablo Medina, Senior Mexico Analyst, Wood Mackenzie
Karim Medrek, Director of Public Diplomacy and Non Governmental Actors, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Kingdom of Morocco
Aziz Mekouar, Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center
Nizar Messari, Professor and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University
Hicham Mhammedi Alaoui, Co-Founder, Experience Morocco
Ivo Miguel Rubio, First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Angola
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, President, NATO Defense College Foundation
Rabi Mohtar, Professor, Texas A&M University
Jorgen Molde, Ambassador to Morocco, Denmark
João Bosco Monte, President, Instituto Brasil Africa
Mohamed Moufakkir, Governor, City of Marrakech
Amine Mounir Alaoui, Vice- President, OCP Foundation
Yassine Moustanjidi, Urban Planner/Architect, Klaus Müller Architecture
Mohamed Amine Moustanjidi, Senior Policy Officer, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ninel Musson, Director of Membership and Stakeholder Engagement, African Leadership Network
Mbali Ndandani, Director, Digital, McDonalds
Nicolas Simel Ndiaye, Founder and Executive Director, L'Afrique des Idées
Thione Niang, Co-Founder, Akon Lighting Africa
Ana Nunes Cordeiro, Journalist, Portugal News Agency
Anne Nutsuklo, Chief Executive Officer, Nandimobile
Fabrice Nze-Bekale, CEO, Societe Equatoriale des Mines
Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President of Nigeria; Board Member Africa Progress Panel, Africa Progress Panel
Rodrigo Oliveira, Regional Under Secretary of the Presidency for External Relations, Government of the Azores
Juan Andres Ordonez Gomez, Ambassador, Embassy of Mexico
Lahcen Oulhaj, Member, CESS
Khalid Ourahzani
'Dapo Oyewole, Executive Director, Policy Development Network
Nereo Penalver García, Policy Advisor, European Parliament
Eliot Pence, Director, Africa, McLarty Associates
Michel Petit, Professor, Institut Agronomique Mediterraneen de Montpellier
Vanessa Phala, Executive Director: Social Policy, Business Unity South Africa
Peter Pham, Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council of the United States
Olayinka Phillips, Director Internal Audit, Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Limited
Ted Piccone, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Yassine Rahmi, OCP Group
Marta Lucía Ramírez, President, Action Citizens
Gregory Randolph, Deputy Director, JustJobs Network
David Reisenzein, Liaison Officer, Frontex
Julissa Reynoso, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke, LLP
El Mostafa Rezrazi, Vice President, International Research Group For Transregional & Emerging Area Studies
João Ribeiro, Director-General for Maritime Policy, Ministry of Agriculture, Sea, Environment, and Spatial Planning, Portugal
Andrea Richter, Chief of Staff, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State
Sandra Rios, Director, Centre for Studies in Integration and Development (CINDES)
Hiba Rizk, Senior Project Manager, Transcarbon Africa Middle East
Alexandros Rondos, Special Representative to the Horn of Africa, European Council
Andrés Rozental, Founding President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations
Nicolò Russo Perez, Head, International Affairs Program, Compagnia di San Paolo
Mustapha Sadni Jallab, Staff Member to Mr. Agah, World Trade Organization
Yadine Samira
Yacouba Sangare, Editor in Chief, Patriote
Lourival Sant'Anna, Founder, 2F
Mayecor Sar, Policy Adviser, Presidential Delivery Unit, Presidency of the Republic of Senegal
Arturo Sarukhan, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Simon Schaefer, CEO, Founder, Factory Licensing GmbH
Valerie Ilene Schuhl, Managing Director and Commercial Head of Corporate and Private Banking, Banque Heritage Uruguay
Asmaa Sebbar, Director, Moroccan Centre for Strategic Studies (CMES)
Mustapha Sehimi, Writer and Editorialist
Fidel Sendagorta, Director General for North American, Asia, and Pacific, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spain
Mehdi Serghini, Managing Director, Financial Advisory, Deloitte LLP
Usman Shehu, Editor, Africa Desk, Deutsche Welle
Landry Signé, Founder and CEO, The Global Network for Africa's Prosperity
Christopher Smart, Special Assistant to the President, U.S. National Security Council
Stephen Smith, Military Legislative Assistant, Senator Angus King
Qing Song, Researcher and Program Officer, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Bernardo Sorj, Executive Director, Edelstein Center for Social Research
Mario Sottomayor Pizarro, CEO, GÉNIUS -- GESTÃO DE PARTICIPAÇÕES LDA.
Mohamed Soual, Advisor to Chairman and CEO, OCP Group
Jorge Spencer Lima, President, Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Sotavento
Hammad Sqalli, Research Professor, CESEM
Michael Stock, Europe Analyst, Crumpton Group, LLC
Seth Stodder, Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Ludovic Subran, Chief Economist and Director for Economic Research, Euler Hermes France
Maxwell Suuk, Reporter, Diamond FM
Anthioumane Tandia, Journalist, Afrimag
Mostafa Terrab, President, OCP Foundation and CEO OCP Group, OCP Foundation
Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, President, Institut PanAfricain de Stratégies
Aminata Touré, Special Envoy to the President, Office of the President, Senegal
Khalid Tritki, Web Influencer, Focus Contenu
Barkue Tubman, Founder and CEO, MBL Intl Group
Adaeze Umolu, Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for Health
Alfredo Valladão, Professor, Sciences Po
Anne Vasara, Ambassador to Morocco, Embassy of Finland
Ivan Vejvoda, Senior Vice President, Programs, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Urmila Venugopalan, Senior Director, Albright Stonebridge Group
Marian Vidaurri, Secretariat for Political Affairs, Organization of American States
Luís Viegas Cardoso, Adviser, European Parliament
Julian von Fumetti, Vice President, Political Risk, BG Group
Eustace Wallace, Second Secretary, Embassy of the Eastern Caribbean States
Robinson West, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
John Wilkinson, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Anna Wittenborg, Project Manager, Flexible Geschäftseinheit Migration, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Eckart Woertz, Senior Research Fellow, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
Patrick Worms, Senior Science Policy Advisor, World Agroforestry Centre
Guillaume Xavier-Bender, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
John Yearwood, World Editor, Miami Herald
Carlton Yearwood, Senior Partner, True Blue Inclusion
Sabri Youcefi, Analyst, Meridiam Infrastructure
Estelle Youssouffa, TV Reporter, BFM TV
Hicham Zegrary, Director, CFC Academy
Astrid Ziebarth, Migration Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Talal Zouaoui, Executive Director - Public Affairs and Communication, OCP Group
Mbuih Zukane Retruyap, Lecturer, University of Dschang