Speakers for this event

• Wadah Khanfar

  Wadah Khanfar

  President of The Al Sharq Forum

  Wadah Khanfar is the President of the Al Sharq Forum and former Director General of the Al Jazeera Network. He is a board member of the International Crisis Group and Global Editors Network (GEN). Khanfar has been named as one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 global thinkers of 2011 as well as one of Fast Company’s ‘Most Creative People in Business’ of the year.

  President of The Al Sharq Forum

• Lurdes Vidal Bertran

  Lurdes Vidal Bertran

  Director of the Arab and Mediterranean World Department, IEMed

  Director of the Arab and Mediterranean W...

• Kristina Kausch

  Kristina Kausch

  Senior Resident Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States\' (GMF) Brussels office

  Kristina Kausch is a Senior Resident Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States' (GMF) Brussels office. Her research focuses on Europe’s relations with the Middle East and North Africa, and political transformations in the Arab world. Prior to joining GMF, she was a non-resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the head of its Middle East program, and research coordinator at FRIDE. She has edited three books and published articles in academic journals.

  Senior Resident Fellow at The German Mar...

• Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

  Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

  Rice University\'s Baker Institute for Public Policy & Associate Fellow, Chatham House.

  Rice University\'s Baker Institute for P...

• Tarek Megerisi

  Tarek Megerisi

  Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

  Policy Fellow, European Council on Forei...