EMUNI Annual Conference 2016 – MERID regional event

Thursday, 12 May 2016

• Jonathan Wareham, Dean of Faculty and Research of ESADE Business & Law School, Spain
• Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, President of the Euro-Mediterranean University, Slovenia
• Ilan Chet, Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean
• Cristina Maria Russo, Director for International Cooperation, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Tom Mc Grath, European External Action Service

• Javier Solana, Director of ESADEgeo, Spain

KEYNOTE: SETTING THE SCENE

• Refaat Chaabouni, Former Minister for Higher Education in Tunisia

List of invited speakers and organisations in alphabetic order

• Angela Liberatore, Head of Unit, Social Sciences and Humanities, ERC Executive Agency, European Commission
• Claudio Bogliotti, Head of Unit – EU Research Policy and Planning, CIHEAM-Bari, Italy
• Hatem Atallah, Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation
• Nabila Makram, Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs, Egypt
• Octavi Quintana-Trias, European Commission, DG for Research and Innovation, Principal Adviser on Migration, European Commission

• Moderator: Hanan Dowidar, Vice-president of Forum for Euro-Mediterranean Innovation in Action, France

BRIEFING ON THE “2ND EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATION” (Malta, June 2017)

• Ian Gauci-Borda, Malta Council for Science and Technology

List of invited speakers and organisations in alphabetic order

• Ayman Rabi, Executive Director of Palestinian Hydrology Group, Palestine
• Ebrahim Asl-Soleimani, Professor in Electrical and computer engineering, University of Teheran, Iran
• Lucila Candela Lledó, Technical University of Calanonia (UPC), Spain
• Muhammad Shatanawi, Professor of Water Resources and UNESCO Chair on Water, Jordan
• Nesreen Ghaddar, Qatar Chair of Energy Studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• Saadi Kadhim Al-Naseri, Director of Water Research Center, MoSt, Iraq

• Moderator: Angel Saz-Carranza, ESADE Business & Law School

List of invited speakers and organisations in alphabetic order

• Angelo Riccaboni, Rector of the University of Sienna, Italy
• Mouin Hamze, Secretary General of the National Council for Research and Science, Lebanon
• Rym Ayadi, President of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, Spain
• Sultan Abu Orabi, Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities, Jordan
• Tanveer Kausar Naim, Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the OIC

• Moderator: Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, Euro-Mediterranean University, Slovenia