{"id":10377,"date":"2024-12-30T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acc.ueuromed.org\/les-membres-de-la-chaire\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:25:08","slug":"les-membres-de-la-chaire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acc.ueuromed.org\/en\/les-membres-de-la-chaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Chair\u2019s team consists of several members from all continents. Based on each member\u2019s geographical spheres of interest, which represent a highly diverse sampling of countries or regions, the Chair will establish a network of specialists from all over the world, enabling it to consequently expand its areas of activities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain<\/strong> is an experienced public administrator. She served in several senior multidisciplinary positions at the national and international levels, including as Quebec Ombudsperson, Deputy Minister of Government Services, Deputy Minister of Relations with Citizens and Immigration, Assistant Deputy Minister of International Relations, and Quebec Official Publisher. She has chaired and been a member of many governance committees, boards of directors, and audit committees in the public sector, in academia and in community and philanthropic organizations.<\/p>

Senator Saint-Germain served as chair of the Association internationale des ombudsmans et m\u00e9diateurs de la francophonie; vice-chair and chair of the Foundation communautaire de Grand Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s audit committee; collaborator to Laval University\u2019s Research Chair on Democracy and Parliamentary Institutions; trainer for the Ombuds professional development programs at York University\u2019s Osgoode Hall Law School and the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke; co-chair of the United Way campaign, public and parapublic sectors; member of the board of directors of the Raoul Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies of the University of Quebec at Montreal; and member of the board of directors of the Agence Qu\u00e9bec Wallonie-Bruxelles pour la jeunesse. She is a member of the executive committees of the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas and the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ms. Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou<\/strong> is a Greek politician who has pursued a long and distinguished career at both the European and national levels, holding senior positions of high responsibility. She served as an elected Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014.<\/p>

In 2007, she was elected First Vice-President of the European Parliament and was re-elected in 2009, during which time she assumed major leadership responsibilities.<\/p>

In 2014, she was appointed President of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy.<\/p>

Born and raised on the island of Zakynthos in Greece, she studied sociology, specializing in political sociology, at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). She subsequently pursued further studies at the Institute of European Studies of the same university (now the Institute of Global Studies).<\/p>

Throughout her parliamentary career, Ms. Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou was actively engaged in a wide range of issues, including European integration, regional cohesion, and the economic and monetary policy of the European Union; the promotion of women\u2019s participation in public and economic life; transport; sustainable tourism; as well as strengthening the presence of the European Union on the international stage in support of peace and shared development. In the field of the European Union\u2019s external relations, she worked extensively on partnerships with Mediterranean countries, Latin American countries, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus.<\/p>

She is a leading figure in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, both through her parliamentary responsibilities and through her own initiatives. She contributed to the establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean University in Portoro\u017e (EMUNI, Slovenia) and the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (UEMF, Morocco).<\/p>

In 2019, she was elected Regional Governor of the Ionian Islands (Greece), where she served the cause of sustainable development across seven islands through road and maritime infrastructure projects, the promotion of sustainable tourism, climate adaptation policies, the restoration of monuments, and the preservation of cultural heritage.<\/p>

Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou has been awarded the rank of Knight and subsequently Officer of the Legion of Honour by the French Republic, as well as Commander of the Order of the Cedar by the Lebanese Republic.<\/p>

She has also received numerous high-level distinctions and awards from universities, international associations, and religious leaders.<\/p>

Today, Rodi Kratsa is a member of the Board of Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (UEMF) and a member of the United Nations Chair for the Alliance of Civilizations within this university, a flagship initiative dedicated to dialogue, mutual respect, and just peace.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof. James F. Hollifield<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Prof. James F. Hollifield<\/strong> is Ora Nixon Arnold Professor in International Political Economy and Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. He is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Hollifield has written widely on issues of political and economic development with a focus on migration, and he has served as an advisor to governments in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He consults with many international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Union, the OECD, and the Organization of American States. In addition to SMU, he has taught at Brandeis University, served as a Research Fellow at Harvard\u2019s Center for European Studies and MIT\u2019s Center for International Studies, and in 1992 was appointed Associate Director of Research at the CNRS and Sciences Po in Paris.\u00a0 He is currently a Fellow at the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) at the University of Bonn and the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In 2016, Hollifield received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association.<\/p>

In September 2021, he joined the Paris IAS as part of the French Institutes for Advanced Study fellowship program – FIAS – co-funded by the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement No 945408. His fellowship also benefits from the support of the RFIEA+ LABEX, with a national funding (Grant ANR-11-LABX-0027-01).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Ambassador Mark Green<\/strong> serves as the President, Director, and CEO of Washington, DC\u2019s Wilson Center. Wilson is unique among American policy institutes in that it\u2019s Congressionally chartered, scholarship driven, and fiercely non-partisan and independent. Green is also the author of the \u201cStubborn Things\u201d blog.<\/p>

From 2017 to 2020, Green served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has also served as President of the International Republican Institute, Executive Director of the McCain Institute, President of the Initiative for Global Development, and senior director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. Green served as the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania from mid-2007 to early 2009, as well as four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wisconsin\u2019s 8th District.<\/p>

Green served on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation during both the Obama and Trump Administrations, and has served on the Bush Institute\u2019s Human Freedom Advisory Council and the Board of the Consensus for Development Reform. He holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Eau Claire. In 2012, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from Georgetown University\u2019s School of Nursing and Health Studies. He has received special honors from President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and President Ivan Duque of Colombia.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Father Nabil Haddad<\/strong> is the founder and executive director of the Jordanian Center for Interfaith and Interreligious Research (known as “Taa’awun”) in Amman, Jordan. He has been active in promoting understanding and coexistence among followers of religions for over three decades. He has served and continues to serve in various administrative positions, ecclesiastical bodies, social, religious, national events, and human rights institutions. In his current position as the founder and executive director of “Taa’awun” since its establishment in 2003, he has played a leading role, both regionally and internationally, in events related to dialogue between civilizations, interfaith dialogue, and religious coexistence, particularly Christian-Muslim dialogue. He has organized numerous workshops and international conferences in Amman with the participation of senior religious and intellectual leaders and dialogue stakeholders. He has represented Jordan in several international conferences on interfaith and intercultural dialogue in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, making significant efforts that have positioned the center at the forefront of discussions on tolerance, coexistence, religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, human dignity, human rights, and social work.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Khaled bin Hamad Al Malik<\/strong><\/p>

Editor-in-Chief of Al Jazeera Saudi Arabia – Currently<\/p>

Honorary President of the Gulf Press Union – Currently<\/p>

Chairman of the Saudi Journalists Association – Formerly until January 2024<\/p>

Chairman of the Gulf Press Union – Formerly until January 2024<\/p>

He has been working in journalism for over fifty years and continues to do so. During this period:<\/p>

1- He transformed Al Jazeera newspaper from a weekly publication to a daily newspaper for over forty years.<\/p>

2- Many media celebrities and editors-in-chief graduated from Al Jazeera newspaper during his tenure as editor-in-chief.<\/p>

3- He launched the \u00ab\u00a0Al-Massaiya\u00a0\u00bb newspaper as the first daily evening publication in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, which continued for twenty years before ceasing publication.<\/p>

4- He has published 17 books, some of which are about journalism and media.<\/p>

5- He has delivered numerous lectures at universities and literary and cultural clubs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>

6- He has accepted invitations to give lectures in several countries, including Japan, South Korea, Italy, Germany, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Bahrain, Poland, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, and others.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Sadguru Brahmeshan Brahmeshanand Acharya Swamiji<\/strong><\/p>