He oversaw the launch of Quartz Africa in June 2015 and coordinates its news, ideas and events in partnership with an editorial team across the continent. Founding board member of Social Media Week Lagos and launched the Billboard Africa Music Day event. As a journalist, he reported from more than 10 countries across Europe, Africa and the Americas. He was deputy editor at Billboard, where he ran the business coverage for the world’s leading music magazine brand. Earlier, he was an editor at New Media Age in London and a regular writer for The Guardian and The Financial Times.

Former member of the Youth Consultative Committee of the League of Arab States, he has worked at the Rabat School of Governance and Economics, Toyota and the European Institute for the Mediterranean (IEMed) in Barcelona.

Permanent Representative to the UN (1993-97), and member of the President’s Cabinet. She is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and serves as Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. She also chairs the National Democratic Institute (NDI), serves as the president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation and is a member of the U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board. Her latest book, Fascism: A Warning was published on April 10 and debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

He is also the President of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions of Europe (CRPM), an organization representing more than 150 European Regions and around 200 million citizens from 28 European States. Former Regional Secretary for the Economy (2008-10), the Presidency (2004-08) and Agriculture and Fisheries (2003-04). Member of the Assembly of European Regions or « R20- Regions of Climate Action ».