| SUNDAY, 16 MAY 2010 |
Overview of the WANA Forum and Participant Introductions by Sultan Barakat, WANA Forum Moderator
OPENING REMARKS
El Hassan bin Talal, Chairperson of the WANA Forum
§ Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, Japan and WANA Forum International Senior Advisory Board Member
§ Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria, Egypt and WANA Forum International Senior Advisory Board Member
REGIONAL THEMES AND PRIORITIES OF THE WANA FORUM
§ Ann Pettifor, Director of Advocacy International and Fellow of the New Economics Foundation, United Kingdom
§ Dennis Meadows, President, Laboratory for Interactive Learning and Professor Emeritus for Policy Systems, University of New Hampshire and co-author of the The Limits to Growth , United States
§ Zafar Adeel, Director of United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and Chair of UN-Water, Canada
§ Habiba Al Marashi, Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group, UAE and Board Member of UN Global Compact
§ Salma Abbasi, Chairperson and CEO, e Worldwide Group and Associate Fellow, King's College London, Conflict, Security and Development Group, UK/UAE
LAUNCH OF THE ARABIC REPORT OF THE LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR, MAKING THE LAW WORK FOR EVERYONE
§ Medhat Hassanein, Professor of Finance and Banking at the American University in Cairo and Former Minister of Finance, Egypt
§ Noha El-Mikawy, Governance Practice Leader for the Arab States Region, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Centre Egypt
BREAK-OUT GROUPS: REVIEW OF WANA FORUM PRIORITIES
SOCIAL COHESION
§ Nour Qabba'ah, WANA Forum Researcher, Jordan and Juho Saari, Professor of Welfare Sociology at the University of Eastern Finland
§ Omar Al Basheer, Executive Director for the Outreach Sector at the Royal Scientific Society (RSS), Jordan
GREEN INDUSTRY & INFRASTRUCTURE
§ Nayim Khemaies (Chair), Private Equity Investment Associate and Ashoka Arab World Support Network Member, Kuwait
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & REVIVAL OF HIMA IN WANA
§ Walid Saleh, Regional Coordinator, MENA, United NationsUniversity, International Network on Water, Environment and Health, UAE
§ Ibrahim Al-Khader, Regional Director, Middle East Division at BirdLife International, Jordan
§ Nadia Al-Sakkaf, Editor-in-Chief of The Yemen Times
§ Asaad Serhal, Director General of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon
§ Aishah Abdallah, Member, International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) Commission on Education and Communication, Saudi Arabia
RECONSTRUCTION & RECOVERY
§ Karen Janjua, Research Fellow, Head of Reconstruction Cluster at the Regional Human Security Centre, Jordan
| MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010 |
DISPLACEMENT AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION & RECOVERY
§ Imran Riza, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Representative in Jordan
§ Lily Habash, Deputy Chief Technical Advisor, Capacity Development Initiative, United Nations Development Programme, Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP-PAPP), Palestine
§ Ahmed Hassan, President of Somali Red Crescent Society
§ Bakhtiar Amin, Founder of the International Alliance for Justice and Former Minister for Human Rights, Iraq
§ Mohammed Ehsan Zia, Chief Executive Officer, TADBEER Consulting Inc. and F ormer Minister of Rural Development, Afghanistan
SOCIAL COHESION IN THE WANA REGION
§ Amal Basha, Chairperson for Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights, Yemen
§ Hu Shaocong, Director of the Department for Developing Countries Studies of China Institute of International Studies, China
§ Hossein Godazgar, Reader and Deputy Head of Department for the Study of Islam and Muslims, Al-Maktoum Institute, United Kingdom/Iran
§ Jan Sadlak, Vice-Rector of the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
§ Zhou Nan-Zhao, President of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Network for International Education and Values Education and President, Chinese Council of Private Higher Education, China
§ Daoud Kuttab, Founding Director of Community Media Network and Media Activist, Palestine and Jordan
OUR COMMON FUTURE: WATER, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY COMMUNITY
Presentation of report on water scarcity & drought in WANA
Jauad El Kharraz, the Euro-Mediterranean Information System on the know-how in the water sector , France
RECONSTRUCTION & RECOVERY
§ Karen Janjua, Research Fellow, Head of Reconstruction Cluster at the Regional Human Security Centre, Jordan
| TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010 |
ENVIRONMENT AND GREEN ECONOMY
§ Kazi Jalal, Special Program Instructor, Environmental Studies at Harvard University Extension School, United States
§ Walid Saleh, Regional Coordinator, MENA, United NationsUniversity, International Network on Water, Environment and Health , UAE
§ Soubhi Abdulkarim, Chairman and CEO, SOUTER Group, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates
§ Liu Baolai, Council Member of Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs and Special Researcher for China Institute of International Studies
MOBILISING THE THIRD SPHERE FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION
Savas Sahin, Urban and Regional Planner, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Atilim University, Turkey