Agenda
Doha Forum 2023
Agenda
10:00 - 10:40
Al Dafna: Opening Ceremony
- H.E. António Guterres: Secretary General, United Nations
- Ghida Fakhry: MC, Doha Forum (Moderator)
10:40 - 11:30
Al Dafna: What Now for the Middle East?
- H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al Thani: Prime Minister And Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
- H.E. Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh: Prime Minister of Palestine
- H.E. Ayman Al Safadi: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- H.E. Dennis Francis: President of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, United Nations
- Becky Anderson: Managing Editor and Anchor of Connect the World, CNN (Moderator)
11:50 - 12:40
- Safwan Masri: Dean, Georgetown Univeristy in Qatar
- Wadah Khanfar: President and Co-Founder of Al Sharq Forum
- Omar H. Rahman: Research Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs
- Rula Shadeed: Program and Advocacy Director, Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy
- Sami Abu Shehadeh: Chairman, The National Democratic Assembly Party
- Mehdi Hasan: News Anchor, MSNBC (Moderator)
- H.E. Rina Amiri: Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, U.S. Department of State
- H.E. Rangina Hamidi: Former Minister of Education, Afghanistan and Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management
- Alex Thier: CEO, Lapis Communications
- Roya Mahboob: CEO and Founder of Digital Citizen Fund
- Dr. Ghulam Omar Qargha: Fellow, Brookings Institute
- Folly Bah Thibault: Principal Presenter, Al Jazeera (Moderator)
- H.E. Hadi Al Bahra: President, Syrian National Coalition
- H.E. Brigitte Curmi: Ambassador for Syria, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Geir O. Pedersen: Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations
- Ann Snow: UK Special Representative for Syria
- Charles Lister: Senior Fellow, Director of Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs, Middle East Institute (Moderator)
- H.E. Salim bin Nasser Al Aufi: Minister for Energy & Minerals, Oman
- H.E. Luigi Di Maio: EU Special Representative (EUSR) for the Gulf region
- Dr. Omran Al-Kuwari: CEO, Qatar Foundation International
- Dr. Elif Calik: Women in Smart Energy - WSE UK
- Dr. Cinzia Bianco: Gulf Research Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (Moderator)
Al Rayyan: Asia and the GCC: A Deepening Partnership
- H.E. Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi: Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
- Dr. Abdulaziz Sager: Chairman, Gulf Research Center
- Prof. Shuji Hosaka: Board Member of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) and Director of JIME Center, a unit of IEEJ
- Dr Nilanjan Ghosh: Director, Observer Research Foundation
- Prof. Wu Bingbing: Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Peking University
- Dr. Dania Thafer: Senior Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs (Moderator)
Roundtable Room 2: Innovative Solution for Governing AI & Emerging Cybertechnology
- Dr. Mohammed bin Saif Al-Kuwari: Vice Chairman, National Human Rights Committee
- Dana Al Abdulla: Director of National Cyber Governance and Assurance Affairs, National Cyber Security Agency
- Dr. David Passarelli: Director, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research
- Mike Liu: Vice President, Senior Fellow of CCG, Former Managing Director of DXC Technology, Greater China
- Omid Raghimi: Head of Cyber Security Practice & Advisor, Palantir Technologies
- Kate Kallot: Founder & CEO, Amini
- Sachin Dev Duggal: Chief Wizard & Co-founder, Builder Ai
- Muznah Siddiqui: Global Governance Research and Planning Associate, United Nations University Center for Policy Research
- Hafed Al Ghwell: Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
- Nudhara Yusuf: Executive Coordinator of the Global Governance Innovation Network, Stimson Center
- Lana Khalaf: General Manager, Microsoft Qatar
- Brian Finlay: President and CEO, Henry L. Stimson Center (Moderator)
13:00 - 13:50
- H.E. Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Meraikhi: Special Advisor to UN Secretary General on Public Private Partnerships and Islamic Social Financing
- H.E. Nassir bin Abdulaziz Al-Nasser: President of the UN General Assembly's 66th session & Former High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations.
- H.E. Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida: Board Member and Chief Executive Officer
- Dr. Hossam Elsharkawi: MENA Regional Director, International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies
- Natalie Marko: Head of Social Sustainability, Standard Chartered Bank
- Prof. Rory Miller: Professor of International Politics, Co-Director, Small States Research Program, Director of Energy Studies Program, Georgetown University - Qatar
- Dr. Simon Kingston: Managing Director and co-Head of the Social Impact sector for Russell Reynolds and Partner of Humanitarian Finance Forum (Moderator)
- H.E. Macky Sall: President of Senegal
- Achim Steiner: Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
- Juliana Rotich: Head of FinTech, Safaricom
- Dr. Anita Zaidi: President, Gender Equality Division, Gates Foundation (Moderator)
- Vladimir Voronkov: Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism
- H.E. Thomas Greminger: Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GDCSP)
- Dr. Khalid Koser: Founding Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF)
- Dr. Rosalind Nyawira: Director of the National Counter Terrorism Center, Kenya
- Dr. Iris Luarasi: Director, Counselling Line for Women and Girls
- Dr. Majed Al Ansari: Advisor to Prime Minister and Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Director of Center for International Policy Research (CIPR)
- Ravi Agrawal: Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy (Moderator)
- Hon. Bart Magunda Katureebe: Former Minister of Justice and Chief Justice, Uganda
- Hon. Dominic Grieve: British barrister and Former Attorney General for England and Wales
- Dr. Dalia Fahmy: Professor of Political Science; Director of International Relations and Diplomacy, Long Island University
- Lord John Thomas: President, Qatar International Court & Dispute Resolution Centre (Moderator)
14:00 - 14:45
- H.E. M.U.M Ali Sabry: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka
- H.E. Mesganu Arga Moach: State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- H.E. Erika Mounyes: Chair, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Advisory Council
- Victor Gao, Esq.: Vice President, CCG; Chair Professor, Soochow University
- Gustau Alegret: Journalist & Anchor, NTN24 (Moderator)
14:45 - 15:15
- H.E. Sergey Lavrov: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- James Bays: Diplomatic Editor, Al Jazeera (Moderator)
15:30 - 16:20
- H.E. Alibek Kuantyrov: Minister of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- H.E. Kolinda Grabar Kitarović: Former President of the Republic of Croatia
- Victor Gao, Esq.: Vice President, CCG; Chair Professor, Soochow University
- Melissa Bell: Correspondent, CNN (Moderator)
- H.E. Dr. AK Abdul Momen M.P.: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh
- H.E. Vincent Biruta: Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rwanda
- Niels Annen: Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
- Claudia Avila Connelly: Director General of Customs Attention and International Affairs, National Customs Agency of Mexico
- Nathan Wolf Lustbader: Director General, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) (Moderator)
- H.E. Rina Amiri: Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, U.S. Department of State
- Dr. Nilab Mobarez: Advisor, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Prof. Ian Bickford: President of American University of Afghanistan
- Richard Bennett: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, United Nations
- Kimberly Dozier: Global Affairs Analyst, CNN (Moderator)
- H.E Khalifa Jassim Al-Kuwari: Director General, Qatar Fund for Development
- Lady Roslyn Morauta: Chair of the Board, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
- Dr. Hanan Balkhy: Regional Director Elect for Eastern Mediterranean Region, World Health Organization (WHO)
- Sultana Afdhal: CEO, World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)
- Rossella Miccio: President, EMERGENCY NGO
- Sandra Gathmann: Host of "Start Here", Al Jazeera (Moderator)
- H.E. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Thani: Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Ooredoo Qatar
- H.E. Deemah AlYahya: Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization
- Debjani Ghosh: President, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)
- Jonathan Adashek: Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications and Chief Communications Officer, IBM
- Jared Cohen: President of Global Affairs & Co-Head of Applied Innovation, Goldman Sachs
- H.E. Børge Brende: President, World Economic Forum (Moderator)
- H.E. Sheikha Alya Ahmed Saif Al Thani: Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations
- H.E. Maria Fernanda Espinosa: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Defense of Ecuador, former President of the UN General Assembly
- H.E. Csaba Kőrösi: President of the 77th Session of the UNGA and Member of the Board of Patrons of the World Sustainability Forum
- Achim Steiner: Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
- H.E. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein: President of the International Peace Institute, former UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
- Ted Chaiban: Deputy Executive Director, Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, UNICEF
- Prof. Sultan Barakat: Professor at College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Moderator)
16:30 - 17:15
- H.E. Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari: Minister of Finance, Qatar
- H.E. Dr. Akinwumi Adesina: President of the African Development Bank
- H.E. Børge Brende: President, World Economic Forum
- Dan Murphy: Anchor and Correspondent, CNBC (Moderator)
17:15 - 17:40
- Lindsey Graham: Senator, United States
- Morgan Ortagus: Founder of Polaris National Security (Moderator)
09:00 - 09:45
- Martin Griffiths: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
- H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi: Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
- H.E. Abshir Omar Jama: Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Somalia
- Amb. Hesham Youssef: Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
- Amb. Deike Potzel: Director General for Crisis Prevention, Stabilisation, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Assistance and Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues
- Afrah Al Zoubah: Managing Director, Executive Bureau for Acceleration of Aid Absorption and Support Policy Reforms
- Ted Chaiban: Deputy Executive Director, Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, UNICEF
- Dareen Abughaida: Principal Presenter, Al Jazeera (Moderator)
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:00
- H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi: Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
- Amb. Husam Zomlot: Ambassador, Palestinian Mission to the UK
- Daniel Levy: President, US / Middle East Project (USMEP)
- Dr. Comfort Ero: President & CEO, International Crisis Group
- Dr. Huiyao Wang: Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), former Counselor to the State Council of People's Republic of China
- Becky Anderson: Managing Editor and Anchor of Connect the World, CNN (Moderator)
11:15 - 12:05
Salwa 1: Securing Data in an AI Driven Era
- H.E Abdulrahman Ali Al-Malki: President, National Cyber Security Agency
- Amr Awadallah: CEO & Co-Founder, Vectara, Inc.
- Nudhara Yusuf: Executive Coordinator of the Global Governance Innovation Network, Stimson Center
- Mike Liu: Vice President, Senior Fellow of CCG, Former Managing Director of DXC Technology, Greater China
- Muznah Siddiqui: Global Governance Research and Planning Associate, United Nations University Center for Policy Research
- Rawaa Augé: Presenter, Al Jazeera (Moderator)
- H.E. Elmedin Konaković: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- H.E. Ville Skinnari: Former Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Finland
- H.E. Tim Watts: Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Australia
- Dr. Mabel Lu Miao: Co-founder and Secretary General of Center for China and Globalization
- Amb. Mark Green: President and CEO, Wilson Center (Moderator)
Salwa 3: Governing our Climate Future
- H.E. Maria Fernanda Espinosa: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Defense of Ecuador, former President of the UN General Assembly
- Nobuo Tanaka: Chair, Steering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) & Former Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
- Maja Groff: Policy Analyst, Climate Governance Commission
- H.E. Narayan Prakash Saud: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nepal
- Chido Mpemba: African Union Youth Envoy
- Maryam Nemazee: Journalist (Moderator)
- Dr. Huiyao Wang: Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), former Counselor to the State Council of People's Republic of China
- Dr. Justin Vaïsse: Founder and Director General of Paris Peace Forum and Former Director General of Policy Planning Department of French Foreign Ministry
- Manisha Singh: Principal, Sunstone Strategy Group
- Brian Katulis: Vice President of Policy, Middle East Institute
- Paul Salem: President and CEO Middle East Institute (Moderator)
- Othman Belbeisi: Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, International Organization for Migration
- Samman Thapa: Regional Adviser, Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEF
- Mazen Shaqoura: Regional Representative of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights
- Wadih Al-Asmar: President, Euromed Rights / Lebanese Center for Human Rights
- Dr. Rayana Ahmed Bou Haka: WHO Representative in Qatar
- Laila Al-Shaikhli: Anchorwoman and Television Presenter, Al Jazeera (Moderator)
12:30 - 13:20
- H.E. Dr. AK Abdul Momen M.P.: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh
- Lady Roslyn Morauta: Chair of the Board, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
- Prof. Sir Adrian Hill: Director of the Jenner Institute, Oxford University
- Dr. Abdullatif Al Khal: Head of Infectious Diseases and Senior Consultant, Hamad Medical Corporation
- Sultana Afdhal: CEO, World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) (Moderator)
- H.E. Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi: President of Zanzibar and Chairperson of the Revolutionary Council; Representing H.E. Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania
- H.E. Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai: Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Qatar
- H.E. Ahmad Al Muslemani: President of the Communications Regulatory Authority, Qatar
- H.E. Arnoldo André Tinoco: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship, Costa Rica
- Dr. Bruno Lanvin: Founder and CEO, Descartes Institute
- Selim J. Eddé: Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy Google Cloud Emerging Markets
- Keyzom Ngodup Massally: Head of Digital Programming, UNDP Chief Digital Office
- Dan Murphy: Anchor and Correspondent, CNBC (Moderator)
- H.E. Dr. Vjosa Osmani: President of the Republic of Kosovo
- Dr. Majed Al Ansari: Advisor to Prime Minister and Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Director of Center for International Policy Research (CIPR)
- Alexander Radwan: Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag
- Dr. Canan Atilgan: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Moderator)
13:30 - 14:20
Al Dafna: Sudan at War
- Hanna Tetteh: UN Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa
- Amb. Michael Hammer: U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa
- Kholood Khair: Founding Director of Confluence Advisory
- Murithi Mutiga: Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group
- Dr. Comfort Ero: President & CEO, International Crisis Group (Moderator)
14:20 - 14:45
- H.E. Dr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran
- Becky Anderson: Managing Editor and Anchor of Connect the World, CNN (Moderator)
14:55 - 15:45
- H.E. Dr. Cheol-hee Park: Chancellor of Korea National Diplomatic Academy, Republic of Korea
- H.E. Hina Rabbani Khar: Member, Global Mission on Governing Risks of Climate Overshoot; Fmr. State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
- Amb. Julian Ventura: Senior Advisor, SRE/ASG, Former Mexican Ambassador to China
- Prof. David Monyae: Director, Centre for China Africa Studies, University of Johannesburg
- Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri: Director, US & Americas Programme, Chatham House
- Bronwen Maddox: Director and CEO, Chatham House (Moderator)
- Galip Dalay: Non-resident Senior Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs
- H.E. Alfredo Conte: Minister Plenipotentiary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Dr. Sanam Vakil: Director of MENA Programme, Chatham House
- Tarek Megerisi: Senior Policy Fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations
- Omar H. Rahman: Research Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs
- Dr. Andrew Parasiliti: President, Al-Monitor.com (Moderator)
Salwa 2: Prospects for Peace in Ukraine
- H.E. Jacek Siewiera: Secretary of State, Head of the National Security Bureau of the Republic of Poland
- Dr. Huiyao Wang: Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), former Counselor to the State Council of People's Republic of China
- Dr. Fabian Zuleeg: President and Chief Executive, European Policy Center
- Amb. Paula Dobriansky: Senior Fellow, Harvard University, Vice Chair of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
- Melissa Bell: Correspondent, CNN (Moderator)
- H.E. Abdulaziz Al-Khalifa: President of the Civil Service and Government Development Bureau
- Dr. Balgis Osman Elasha: Chief Climate Change and Green Growth Specialist, African Development Bank
- H.E Dr. Nasser Yassin: Minister of Environment, Lebanon
- Rafat Al Akhali: Partner DeepRoot, Fmr. Minister of Youth and Sports, Yemen
- Dr. Jon B. Alterman: Senior VP, CSIS (Moderator)
Roundtable Room 2: Policies Today for a Cohesive Tomorrow
- Dr. Logan Cochrane: Associate Professor and Associate Dean, HBKU
- Dr. Kim Moloney: Assistant Professor, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- Dr. Anis Ben Brik: Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Program for Social Policy Evaluation and Research (PROSPER) at the College of Public Policy, HBKU
- Dr. Leslie A. Pal: Dean, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Moderator)
- Dr. Richard Ponzio: Senior Fellow and Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program Stimson Center
- Michele Griffin: Director, Our Common Agenda Team, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations
- H.E. Fariz Rzayev: Deputy Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan
- Thomas West: Special Respresentative for Afghanistan, U.S. State Department
- Prof. Sultan Barakat: Professor at College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- Prof. Erin McCandless: Visiting Professor, Senior Fellow, HBKU, Global Institute for Strategic Research
- Ellen Laipson: Director, International Security Program, George Mason University
- Joanna Wronecka: Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Office of the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL)
- Cristina Petcu: Deputy Director of the New York Office, Institute for Economics and Peace
- Amb. Sani Saulawa Bala: Executive Director, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development
- Dr. Joris Larik: Assistant Professor, Leiden University / Stimson Center
- Lise Howard: Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University and President of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS)
- Prof. David B. Des Roches: Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- Dr. Mabel Lu Miao: Co-founder and Secretary General of Center for China and Globalization
- Maryam Nemazee: Journalist (Moderator)
16:00 - 16:25
- H.E. Dr. Bisher Khasawneh: Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Ali Aslan: Moderator and Journalist (Moderator)
16:25 - 17:10
Al Dafna: Closing Panel: Building Shared Futures
- H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos: High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
- Bronwen Maddox: Director and CEO, Chatham House
- Dr. Mabel Lu Miao: Co-founder and Secretary General of Center for China and Globalization
- Dr. Omar Suleiman: Founder and President, Yaqeen Institute
- Ravi Agrawal: Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy (Moderator)
17:10 - 17:20
- H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi: Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
17:20 - 17:30
Al Dafna: Closing Session