The President of the Prague Society and Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation, Prof Marc S Ellenbogen, participated as a speaker in the “MEDays Talks” conference organized by Amadeus Institute, a think tank and policy organization based in Rabat, Morocco.
The MEDays International Forum was created in 2008 and since then has become one of the main international geo-strategic events in Africa and in the Arab World. Under the High Patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco, it consists of several sessions and panels organized annually in November. It gathers a community of 150 high-level speakers representing all of the five continents: Heads of States, political decision-makers, representatives of international organizations, CEOs, experts and forefront international figures.
Due to the international restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year the event was held in the form of interactive online sessions, and continued from 10 to 17 of November under the theme “In the wake of Covid-19: Responses, Recovery, and Disruption”. The purpose of the meetings was to bring together high-level international decision-makers and discuss the traditional themes of the MEDays Forum such as geostrategy, politics, economics and social issues of the Mediterranean, African and Arab regions, and put them into perspective with the challenges posed by the pandemic and the economic recession it triggered.
MEDays Talks 2020, Session 5:
“Mutlilateralism: W.H.O CARE(S)?”
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Speakers:
- H.E. Mr. Péter Balázs, fmr. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary and fmr. European Commissioner for Regional Policy.
- H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremić, President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) and fmr. Minister of Foreign Affaits of Serbia.
- Dr. Mikhail Troitskiy, Dean of the School of Government and International Affairs and Associate Professor of International Relations at MGIMO’s Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia at MGIMO University in Moscow.
- H.E. Mr. Yaşar Yakış, fmr. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and fmr. Ambassador to the United Nations Office in Vienna, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
- Prof. Marc S Ellenbogen, President of the Prague Society and Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation, Member of the National Advisory Board, US Democratic Party (2004-2010).
MEDays Talks 2020, Session 10:
“The Vaccine Diplomacy: New Dynamics, New leaderships?”
Monday, November 16th, 2020
Speakers:
- Ms. Ellen Laipson, Distinguished Fellow and President Emeritus of The Stimson Center, fmr. Vice Chair of the US National Intelligence Council.
- Mr. Philip J. Crowley, fmr. United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Spokesman for the U.S. Department of State.
- H.E. Mr. Mustafa Kamal Kazi, fmr. Deputy Foreign Minister of Pakistan and fmr. Ambassador of Pakistan to Russia, Netherlands, Indonesia and Iraq.
- Mr. Tobias Bergner, Senior Policy Fellow in the German Council on Foreign Relations, fmr. coordinator for the foreign policy dimension of global health issues at Germany’s Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
- Prof. Frédéric Encel, Professor of International Relations at the ESG Management School, a lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris, and seminar leader at the French Institute of Geopolitics.
- H.E. Mr. Miro Kovač, President of the External Politics Committee at the Croatian Parliament and fmr. Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia.
- Prof. Marc S Ellenbogen, President of the Prague Society and Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation, Member of the National Advisory Board, US Democratic Party (2004-2010).