Speakers
Dr. Abderrahim El Manar
Esslimi
Head of the Maghreb Studies Unit
Emirates Policy Center
U.A.E
Prof. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
Dr. Abdullah Al-Shammari
Retired Professor of
Non-resident senior fellow,
Political Science
The international Middle East Center
U.A.E
in Ankara, Turkey
Mr. Abdullah bozkurt
Bureau-in-Chief, Today’s
Zaman Newspaper
Turkey
Dr. Ahmed A. Saif
Director, Sheba Centre
for Strategic Studies,
Yemen
Dr. Albadr SS Alshateri
Adjunct Professor
The National Defense College
U.A.E
Amb. Alexander Vershbow
Deputy Secretary General
NATO, Belgium
Mr. Ali Khedery
Chairman and Chief Executive
Dragoman Partners
U.A.E
Ms. Annette Heuser
Executive Director and
Founder, Bertelsmann
Foundation, U.S
Mr. Ayman Al-Sayyad
Editor
Weghat Nazar Periodical
Egypt
Dr. Aziz Hassan Barzani
Professor
Salahaddin University in Erbil
Iraq
Dr. Birol Baskan
Asst. Prof. Georgetown
University School of
Foreign Service, Qatar
Mr. Brahim Fassi Fihri
Founder and Chairman
The Amadeus Institute
Morocco
Mr. Brian Katulis
Senior Fellow, Center for
American Progress
U.S
Mr. Dong Manyuan
Senior Research Fellow
China Institute of
International Studies
(CIIS), China
Dr. Elena Suponina
Director, The Middle East
and Asia Center, Russian
Institute for Strategic
Studies, Russia
Dr. Fadhl Almaghafi
Ambassador
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yemen
Amb. Frederic C. Hof
Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri
Center for the Middle East,
Atlantic Council, U.S
Dr. Harlan Ullman
Chairman
The Killowen Group and CNIGuard
Ltd. The United States
Mr. Hasan al Omari
Head of Iranian Studies
Emirates Policy Center
U.A.E
Mr. Jaafar Altaie
Managing Director, Manaar
Energy Consulting and
Project Management
U.A.E
Mr. Jamal Khashoggi
Editor in Chief
Al-Watan Newspaper
Saudi Arabia
Mr. John O’Rourke
Head, Arabian Peninsula,
Iraq and Iran Division,
External relations services
of the European
Commission, Belgium
Dr. Mohsen Milani
Executive Director and
Professor of Politics, The
Center for Strategic &
Diplomatic Studies at the
University of South Florida
in Tampa, U.S
Amb. Mohamed Anis Salem
Director
Development Works
Egypt
Dr. Murhaf Jouejati
Professor of Middle East
Studies, The National
Defense University’s NESA
Center for Strategic Studies
in Washington, US
Mr. Nabil Fahmy
Minister
The American University
in Cairo
Egypt
Dr. Najib Ghadbian
The Special Representative
to the United States,
The National Coalition of
Syrian Revolution and
Opposition Forces, U.S
Amb. Richard Burt
Director
McLarty Associates
The United States
Mr. Saad Mehio
Editorial Manager
Carnegie Middle East Center
Lebanon
Dr. Sami Alfaraj
Head, Kuwait Centre for
Strategic Studies
Kuwait
Mr. Samuel R. Berger
Chair, Albright Stonebridge
Group
The United States
Amb. Seyed Hossein
Mousavian
Associate Research Scholar
Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International
Affairs, U.S
Amb. Stephen A. Seche
Senior Analyst
Dentons US LLP
The United States
Dr. Sultan al Nuaimi
Professor
Abu Dhabi University
The United Arab Emirates
Prof. Dr.Vitaly Naumkin
Director
The Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russia
Prof Wang Jisi
President
The Institute of
International & Strategic
Studies, Peking University
China
Prof. Yiyi Chen
Head, Center for Middle
East Peace Studies
China
Moderators
Mr. Barry Pavel
President
The Atlantic Council
U.S
Mr. David Ignatius
Associate Editor and
Columnist, The Washington
Post, U.S
Mr. Hisham Melhem
Washington Bureau Chief
Al-Arabiya Channel
U.S
Dr. Jasim M. AI-Khalufi
Director of the Arab Affairs
Department
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
U.A.E
Ms. Raghida Dergham
Founder and Executive Chairman
of Beirut Institute
Al Hayat
Lebanon
Ms. Robin Wright
Senior Fellow, US Institute
of Peace and the Woodrow
Wilson International Center
The United States
Mr. Steve Clemons
Washington Editor at
Large, The Atlantic
The United States
Dr. Steven A. Cook
Hasib J. Sabbagh senior
fellow for Middle Eastern
studies, Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), U.S
Zaid Eyadat
Founding Dean
The School of International Studies
at the University of Jordan
Jordan