Le rôle de l'Afrique du Nord dans les relations géopolitiques entre l'Europe et l'Afrique

October 7, 2020
Speakers
Iván Martín
Senior Fellow
Iván Martín is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), and Associate Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Between 2013 and 2016 he was Part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute in Florence, as well as member of the Expert Group on Economic Migration of the European Commission and Key Expert on Labour Migration providing External Technical Expertise on Migration to DG DEVCO of the European Commission (ETEM V Project). Formerly, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International A ...
Amal El Ouassif
International Relations Specialist
Amal El Ouassif is an International Relations Specialist  at the Policy Center for the New South. Prior to this, she worked as a program coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and served as a consultant in development policies with the office of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Morocco. She is also a former bluebook trainee in the Directorate General of Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion in the European Commission in Brussels. Amal has a Master of Art in EU’s International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master in Development Studies from UPMF-Grenoble. Her area of interest include Africa- Europe cooperation and migration. ...
Hassen Boubakri
President, Tunis Center for Migration and Asylum
Prof. Dr. Hassen Boubakri is the President of the Tunis Center for Migration and Asylum, a national partner of the North Africa Migration Academic Network and a steering committee member of the Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Jean-Monnet-Network. As a Professor-Doctor of Geography and Migration Studies he is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sousse and on their behalf the partner of the Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights (MADAR) Network. Most recently, Prof. Boubakri has been the team leader of the study “Update of the National Migration Strategy” launched by the National Migration Observatory in Tunisia. With experiences at numerous international organizations, such as the United Nations, the European Commission, ICMPD or the Migration Policy Center, and ...
Mohamed Limam
Assistant Professor, University of Sousse
Dr. Mohamed Limam is Assistant Professor in Political Science. He obtained a postdoctoral diploma, "Habilitation of Supervising Research (HDR) from the University Al Manar, Tunis. His main areas of interests and expertise are Tunisian politics and EU/MENA region cooperation, namely the EU migration policy toward the Maghreb countries. He was a research associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in the European University Institute – Florence (2012- 2014 and 2016-2017). Dr. Limam is also the country reviewer of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index report (Tunisia, since 2012), the Country reporter of Transparency International report on Tunisia (2018) and of the Arab Civil-Military Relations Index (civil-military relations in Tunisia), Carnegie Middle East Cent ...
Michael Gahler
Member of the European Parliament; Vice-Chair of ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs
Michael Gahler is a Member of the European Parliament for the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which is part of the European People's Party (EPP). Mr Gahler is the foreign policy spokesman of the EPP, the Vice-Chairman of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. As a Member of the European Parliament since 1999, Mr Gahler also serves as a member of the EPP Executive Committee and a member of the Board of the CDU/CSU Group in the European Parliament. Mr Gahler is also a member of the CDU Federal Committee on Foreign, European and Security Policy and, since 2010, Deputy Chairman of the European Movement Germany. ...
Thomas Volk
Director of the Regional Program Political Dialogue in the South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
Thomas Volk is since July 2020 the Director of the Regional Program Political Dialogue in the South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), based in Tunis. Before he was since December 2016 the Resident Representative of KAS for Senegal and The Gambia, based in Dakar. Starting in 2014 he was the Coordinator for Islam and the Dialogue between Religions in the Department for Politics and Consulting in the Headquarters of KAS in Berlin. He studied Middle Eastern Studies and History in Freiburg and Basel and graduated from the German-Turkish Master’s Program in Social Sciences at the Middle East Technical University Ankara and Humboldt-University Berlin. Before joining the KAS he worked for a member of the European Parliament and in the Headquarters of the Christian D ...

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