Jordi Bacaria, Director, CIDOB

Eduard Soler i Lecha, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB

Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI, Rome) 

Change and continuity in MENA societies, polities and narratives

Chair: Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI, Rome)

Inputs:

Lorenzo Kamel, Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI, Rome)

Virginie Collombier, Research Fellow, European University Institute (EUI, Florence)

Katerina Dalacoura, Associate Professor, London School of Economics (LSE)

Robert Springborg, Visiting Professor, King’s College London and IAI

Randa Slim, Director of Track II Dialogues initiative, Middle East Institute (Washington DC)

The emerging regional order and overlapping cleavages

Chair: Eduard Soler i Lecha, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB

Inputs:

Helle Malmvig, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS, Copenhagen)

Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut (AUB)

Djallil Lounnas, Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University (AUI, Ifrane)

Silvia Colombo, Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI, Rome)

Meliha Altunisik, Professor, Middle East Technical University (METU, Ankara)

Global power shifts, natural resources and sustainable development

Chair: Eckart Woertz, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB

Inputs:

Erzsébet Rózsa, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT, Budapest)

Edgar Göll, Head of Research Futures Studies & Participation, Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT, Berlin)

Emanuela Menichetti, Director of the Renewable Energy Division, Observatoire Méditerranéen de I'Energie (OME, Paris)

Martin Keulertz, Research Fellow, King’s College London

Policy challenges, critical junctures, tough decisions

Chair: Pol Morillas, Research Fellow, CIDOB

Inputs:

Aybars Görgülü, Projects Manager, Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM, Istanbul)

Shireen T. Hunter, Research Professor, Georgetown University (Washington DC)

Abdullah Baabood, Director, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University (Doha)

Francis Ghilès, Associate Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB

Sven Biscop, Director of the Europe in the World Programme, Egmont Institute (Brussels)