Rencontre Valmer

“The Transforming Arab City: Local Empowerment and Urban Governance”

Center for Mediterranean Integration

April 4-5, 2013 – Villa Valmer, Marseille

PARTICIPANTS LIST

ALGERIA

1. Mr. Madani SAFAR ZITOUN

Professor of Sociology

University of Algiers

2. Mr. Mohamed Salah ZEROUALA

Director

Urban Planning and Architecture School of Algiers (EPAU)

EGYPT

3. Mr. Mahmoud EL SAID

Executive Director of the Center for Project Evaluation and

Macro-economic Analysis

Ministry of International Cooperation

4. Mr. Kareem IBRAHIM

Architect-Urbanist

Takween Integrated Community Development

5. Mr. Mohamed AL SHAHEED

PhD Candidate at New York University

Founder of the electronic magazine Cairobserver

6. Mr. Khaled ABDELHALIM

Executive Director

Local Development Observatory (LDO)

7. Ms. Sahar ATTIA

Professor of Architecture & Urban Design

Cairo University

8. Mr. Tamer TAHA

Founder of Yomken NGO

FRANCE

9. Mr. Jean Michel DESPAX

Délégué pour l'Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

10. Ms. Anne-Marie REINGOLD

Assistant Secretary

National Commission for Decentralized Cooperation

Délégation pour l'Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

11. Mr. Grégoire JOYEUX

Chargé d'études auprès de la Délégation pour l'Action Extérieure

des Collectivités Territoriales

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

12. Mr. Bernard EL GHOUL

Director of Menton Campus, Sciences Po

Paris

13. Mr. Pierre-Arnaud BARTHEL

Associate Professor of Geography and Urbanism

University of Paris-Est

14. Ms. Myriam CATUSSE

Political Scientist & CNRS Researcher

Research Institute on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM)

15. Ms. Valérie CLERC

Researcher

Institute of Research for Development (IRD)

16. Mr. Eric VERDEIL

Geographer & CNRS Researcher

University of Lyon

17. Mr. Ali BENSAAD

Associate Professor in Geography

University of Aix-Marseille/IREMAM

18. Ms. Agnes DEBOULET

Professor of Sociology

University Paris 8

19. Mr. Pierre SIGNOLES

Professor Emeritus

University Francois Rabelais, Tours

20. Ms. Sylvie MAZZELLA

CNRS Researcher

Meditteranean Laboratory for Sociology (LAMES)

University of Aix-Marseille

21. Mr. Jean-Pierre GAUDIN

CNRS Research Director/Professor at Institute for Political

Studies (IEP), Aix-en-Provence

22. Mr. Marc OLIVAUX

PhD/Education Officer

Institute of Public Management and Territorial Government, Aix

en Provence

GERMANY

23. Mr. Peter GOTSCH

Professor of International Urban Development

University of Frankfurt

JORDAN

24. Mr. Ibrahim KHRIES

Deputy City Manager

Greater Amman Municipality

25. Ms. Myriam ABABSA

Researcher

Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO)

LEBANON

26. Mr. Nader EL GHAZAL

Mayor

Municipality of Tripoli

27. Dr. Mohammad ISSA

Mayor

Municipality of El Mina

28. Ms. Mona FAWAZ

Professor of Political Science

American University, Beirut

MOROCCO

29. Mr. Abdelaziz ADIDI

Director

National Institute of Urban Development and Planning (INAU)

30. Mr. Olivier TOUTAIN

Urban Planner, Rabat

31. Mr. Eric GOBE

Political Scientist

Centre Jacques Berque (CJB), Rabat

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

32. Mr. Nasser ATTA

Producer, ABC

33. Ms. Nada TARBUSH

General Delegation of Palestine to the European Union, Belgium

and Luxembourg

TUNISIA

34. Mr. Amin ALLAL

PhD Candidate in Political Sciences

Institute of Political Sciences, Aix en Provence

35. Mr. Yassine TURKI

Vice President

Tunisian Association of Urban Planners (ATU)

36. Mr. Ahmed ZAOUCHE

Urban planner - Secretary General

Association Actions Citoyennes en Medinas

ORGANIZATIONS

AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPEMENT (AFD)

37. Ms. Mai Linh CAM

Local Authorities and Urban Development Department

38. Ms. Rejane HUGOUNENQ

Economist

39. Mr. Emmanuel COMOLET

Economist

CAISSE DES DEPOTS

40. Ms. Charlotte JACQUOT

Project Officer

CENTER FOR MEDITERRANEAN INTEGRATION (CMI)

41. Mr. Mats KARLSSON

Director

42. Mr. Olivier LAVINAL

Program Manager

43. Mr. Dominique ROJAT

AFD/CMI Program Coordinator

44. Ms. Agnes WIEDEMANN

Coordinator CoMun

45. Ms. Najet TENOUTIT

UNDP/CMI Program Coordinator

46. Ms. Anuja UTZ

Senior Operations Officer

47. Ms. Candice LE TOURNEUR

Project Officer

48. Ms. Lamia ZAKI

Consultant

49. Ms. Sara BOUGHEDIR

Consultant

EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK (EIB)

50. Mr. Henry MARTY-GAUQUIÉ

Director, Paris office

EGIS International

51. Mr. Gilles PEQUEUX

Head of Strategy

52. Mr. Jean-Michel RISTORI

Director of the Business Line « My City by Egis »

53. Mr. Nistala KRISHNA

Director of the Business Line « My City by Egis »

ERNST & YOUNG ADVISORY

54. Mr. Fabrice REYNAUD

Executive Director

Ernst & Young’s ILAS European network

EUROMEDITERRANEE

55. Mr. Franck GEILING

Director of Architechture and Urban Planning

GESELLSCHAFT FÛR INTERNAZIONALE

ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ)

56. Mr. Meinolf SPIEKERMANN

Program Leader, CoMun

57. Ms. Lisa REUDENBACH

Trainee, CoMun

JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY

(JICA)

58. Mr. Koenuma AKIHIKO

Director General

Middle East and Europe Department

59. Mr. Kimura MISAKI

Planning Division

Middle East and Europe Department

60. Ms. Kimiko TSUCHIYA

Middle East and Europe Department

61. Ms. Yuumi USHIRO

Middle East and Europe Department

KAMIDEAS

62. Mr. Amin Khosravi

Founder

MEDCITIES

63. Mr. Joan PARPAL

General Secretary

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION FOR

MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST (OCEMO)

64. Mr. Pierre MASSIS

Acting Director

65. Mr. Alexandre MUNOZ

Project Officer

UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN (UfM)

66. Mr. Guy FLEURET

Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Transport and Urban

Development

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)

67. Mr. Johannes KRASSNITZER

ART Program Specialist

WORLD BANK

68. Ms. Inger ANDERSEN

Vice-President for the MENA region

69. Mr. Francois BOULANGER

Senior Urban Economist

70. Mr. Andrea ZANON

Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist