Transatlantic Economic Forum: Building Bridges Across the Mediterranean

GALA RECEPTION
MEDITERRANEAN LEADERSHIP AWARD CEREMONY

Opening:

• Vali Nasr, Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Master of Ceremonies:

• Michael Haltzel, Senior Fellow, CTR - SAIS

Greetings:

• Miriam E. Sapiro, Acting U.S. Trade Representative

Award Ceremony:

• Mohamed Yousef Almagariaf
  President of the General National Congress of Libya
• Jeanne Shaheen
  United States Senator (D-NH)
• Robert Aderholt
  Member of the House of Representatives (R-AL)
• Rifat Hisarciklioglu
  President, The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

"Transatlantic Cooperation - Benefit For All"

Chair:

• Michael Haltzel, Senior Fellow, CTR - SAIS

Panelists:

• Mark Mowrey, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Eurasia and the Middle East
• Mondher Rezgui, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Libya, Head of the African Union Liaison Office to Libya
• Alison Germak Gatchev, Director, Corporate Development, Small & Medium Enterprise Finance, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• Dumitru Dan Enache, Secretary of State for SME’s, Business Environment and Tourism, Ministry of Economy (Romania)
• Güven Sak, Coordinator of Ankara Forum for Economic Cooperation between Palestine, Israel and Turkey

Presentation of Business Opportunities in Private and Public Sector

Chair:

• Sasha Toperich, Senior Fellow, CTR - SAIS

Panelists:

• Lobna Jeribi, National Constituent Assembly, Ettokatol Party, Head of Economic Program
• Dragan Susac, Director - General, Geofizika, Croatia
• Senada Spahic, Assistant of General Manager and Director of Sector for Finance, Energoinvest d.d., Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lunch break

"Investment Opportunities in North Africa"

Chair:

• Sasha Toperich, Senior Fellow, CTR - SAIS

Panelists:

• Flavia Palanza, Director, Facility for Euro-Mediterrranean Investment & Partnership, European Investment Bank
• Sami Razgallah, Ettokatol Party, Head of Communication, Political Bureau
• Matthew T. McGuire, Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Business Liaison, U.S. Department of Commerce

Commentator:

• Bowman Cutter, Chairman, Tunisian-American Enterprise Fund

"Legislation and Business - Creating a Viable Economic Environment"

Chair:

• Michael Haltzel, Senior Fellow, CTR - SAIS

Panelists:

• Mohamed Alakari, Chief Strategist, Atarir (Change) Party; Chairman, Libyan Economic Forum
• Soliman Y. Gajam, MP, General National Congress of Libya, Chairman of Energy and Constitutional Committee, Member of Research and Higher Education Committee
• Djordje Todorovic, The International Republican Institute, Tunisia

"Opportunities Beyond Normalization Between Kosovo and Serbia"

Keynote Address:

• Hashim Thaçi, Prime Minister of Kosovo

Lunch break

"Stability, Peace, Democracy - Pillars for Prosperity"

Chair:

• Andy Mullins, Visiting Fellow, CTR - SAIS

Panelists:

• Dr. Fathi Nuah, Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the General National Congress of Libya
• Sena Latif, Director, Economic Diplomacy Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania
• Daria Nashat, Nashat Consulting LLC
• Karen Volker, Volker Solutions LLC
• Ahmed Najib Chebbi, Member, National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, Al Joumhouri Party