Why Think Tanks Matter to Policy Makers and the Public?
Institut Royal des Etudes Stratégiques (IRES) - Rabat
Building up on last year’s Global Go To Think Tank launch event, the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies and the OCP Policy Center in partnership with the Lauder Institute will be holding an event about “Why Think Tanks Matter to Policy Makers and the Public”.
While the number of think tanks is increasing, the interaction between these institutions and the policy making process remains blurry. The Think Tank Launch Event on January 27th aims at discussing the major role think tanks play in the policy making world but also in civil societies around the world.
Speakers will explore the evolving role of think tanks and try to understanding the link between them and policy makers.
The event will simultaneously be taking place in other cities to establish global networks of think tank communities in order to improve policy making around the world.
It will be concluded by the results of the Global Go To Think Tank Index from 2015.
The Global Go To Think Tank Index is the result of an international survey of over 1,950 scholars, public and private donors, policy makers, and journalists who helped rank more than 6,500 think tanks using a set of 18 criteria developed by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP). The purpose of the index is to help improve the profile and performance of think tanks while highlighting the important work they do for governments and civil societies around the world.
This event will be in french.
Agenda
| 09:45 – 10:00 |
Welcoming participants |
| 10:00 – 10:10 |
Opening remarks Mohammed Tawfik MOULINE, Managing Director, Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES) |
| 10:10 – 11:00 |
Moderator : Said MOUFTI, Director of Research, IRES. Coordinator of studies program on « Morocco’s external relations » SESSION 1 : Role of think tanks in Morocco’s strategic choices - Moulay Smaïl ALAOUI, Civil Society, Former Minister - Karim MEDREK, Director of public diplomacy and non-state actors, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation - Amal REGHAY, Employment Director, Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs - Noureddine SEFIANI, Vice-President of the Moroccan Council of Foreign Affairs, Former Moroccan Ambassador |
| 11:00 – 11:45 |
SESSION 2 : Think Tanks as a bridge between research and public policies - Abdelhak AZZOUZI, President, The Moroccan Interdisciplinary Center for Strategic and International Studies - Mohammed BELMAHI, Senior Fellow at Akhawayn University, Former Moroccan Ambassador - Azzedine GHOUFRANE, Dean, Faculty of law, economy and social sciences, Souissi-Mohamed V University - Lahcen OULHAJ, Professor, Faculty of law, economy and social sciences, Agdal-Mohamed V University |
| 11:45 – 12:15 |
Presentation of 2015 "global go think tank index’ report" results |
| 12:15 |
Closing remarks |
About TTCSP
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) conducts research on the role that think tanks play in government and civil societies around the world. It is based at the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania since 2008.
About IRES
IRES’s vocation is to contribute in decision-making on strategic issues. Its mission is to carry out strategic studies and analyses on issues as advised by His Majesty The King and to be entrusted with a strategic watch task, both at the national and international level, in fields deemed strategic for the country. It analyses domestic structural issues, examines Morocco’s external relations on a variety of dimensions and attaches great importance to global issues.
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