Speakers and High Level Participants
Chairperson
African Union Commission
H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat
(Republic of Chad)
Secretary General, League of Arab States
H.E. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt & Chairman, International Advisory Board
H.E. Sameh Shoukry
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Chairman, Panel of the Wise
H.E. Amre Moussa
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
SRSG to the African Union and Head of the UNOAU
H.E. Hanna Tetteh
(Republic of Ghana)
Director General, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
H.E. Ghada Waly
(UNODC)
Special Envoy, Horn of Africa, United Nations
H.E. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
(Gabonese Republic)
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Ms. Elizabeth Spehar
(DPPA-PBSO)
Director, Transition States Coordination Office, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Dr. Yero Baldeh
(AfDB)
Director General, Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), Executive Director of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development and Co-Chair AU NeTT4Peace.
H.E. Ahmed Abdel-Latif
(Egypt)
Senior Advisor of the African Union on Governance and Peacebuilding at the Office of the Commissioner, Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African Union (AU)
H.E. William Azumah Awinador-Kanyirige
(African Union)
Assistant Minister for African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Ihab Awad
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and Head of Mission, Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram
H.E. Mamman Nuhu
(LCBC & MNJTF)
Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African UnionCommissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African Union
H.E. Bankole Adeoye
(African Union)
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Department of Peace Operations, United Nations
H.E. Jean-Pierre Lacroix
(United Nations)
Founder and President, Women in International Security, Horn of Africa
Ms. Fauziya Abdi Ali
(Somalia)
Ambassador, Director of Climate, Environment and Sustainable Development Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Mohamed Nasr
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Under-Secretary‑General and Special Adviser on Africa, United Nations
H.E. Cristina Duarte
(United Nations)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of N Gage Consulting
Karim Refaat
(Egypt)
Minister of Planning and Economic Development (MoPED), the Republic of Sierra Leone, Chair g7+
Kenyeh Barlay (Ballay)
(Republic of Sierra Leone)
President of the International Crisis Group
Dr. Comfort Ero
(Liberia)
Minister of Women’s Affairs
H.E. Mona Al-Khalili
(Palestine)
Chairman of Munich Security Conference
H.E. Cristoph Heusgen
(Germany)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and the Francophonie.
Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner
(Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Executive Secretary of Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC).
Hawa Sally Samai
(Sierra Leone)
Chair of the Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation (FemWise-Africa) and Chair of the African Union’s Panel of the Wise
Effie Owuor
(Kenya)
Regional Director for the Arab States ad interim, UN Women
Moez Doraid
(Not specified)
Vice-President for the Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade
(Nigeria)
Deputy Prime Minister
Salah Jama
(Federal Republic of Somalia)
Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
Nardos Bekele-Thomas
(Nigeria)
Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amy Pope
(Not Specified)
Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States
Abdallah Al Dardari
(Not Specified )
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Ethiopia
Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the African Union
Mohamed Omar Gad
(Egypt)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Robert Dussey
(Republic of Togo)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ramadan Mohammed Abdallah Goc
(Republic of South Sudan)
Minister of Religious Affairs
Mahamadou Oumar Kone
(Republic of Mali)
Minister of Islamic Affairs and Endowments
Moumin Hassan Barreh
(Republic of Djibouti )
Senior Advisor to the President of Somalia for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, the Federal Republic of Somalia & Director, Tubsan National Center for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (TNC-PCVE)
Abdullahi M. Nor
(Federal Republic of Somalia)
Executive Director of Neem Foundation
Fatima Akilu
(Not specified)
African Youth Ambassador, West Africa Region
Simone Mbode Diouf
(Not specified )
African Youth Ambassador, Central Africa Region
Julien Vikemba
(Not specified)
Governor of Somali Development and Reconstruction Bank
Hodan Osman
(Federal Republic of Somalia )
Executive Director, International Monetary Fund ( IMF) & United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Development Agenda
Mahmoud Mohieldin
(Not specified)
Executive Governor, Borno State
Babagana Umara Zulum
(The Federal Republic of Nigeria )
EU Special Representative for the Sahel
Emanuela Del Re
(Not specified)
Principal Adviser, Solutions to Internal Displacement, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations Office in Geneva
William Chemaly
(Not specified)
Executive Secretary
African Union Centre for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (AU PCRD)
Libakiso Matlho
(Not specified )
The Peace Fund Secretariat of the African Union
Dagmawit Moges Bekele
(Not Specified )
Chief Executive Officer of Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency
Jean Van Wetter
(Belgium)
Deputy Secretary General, G7+
Habib Ur Rehman Mayar
(Not Specified)
Senior Advisor, Governance and Peacebuilding Department
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Yuko DOHI
(Japan)
Founding Director
Amani Africa
Member, NeTT4Peace Strategy Group
Solomon A. Dersso
(Not specified)
Member of the Seventh Advisory Group of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF)
Mohamed Idris
(Not specified)
Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations
Fatima Mohammed
(Not specified)
Head of Multilateral Relations and Cooperation, Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation.
Jerobeam Shaanika
(Republic of Namibia)
Chief Director: United Nations Political, Peace and Security, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) of South Africa
Zaheer Laher
(South Africa)
Chief Executive Officer, African Peer Review Mechanism
Marie-Antoinette Rose Quatre
(Not specified)
President of International Organization for Peacebuilding
Itonde Kakoma
(Not specified)
Permanent Representative of SADC to the African Union
Jevin Pillay
(Not specified)
Senior Researcher at the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
Andrea Prah
(Not specified)
Executive Director, Institute of Policy Analysis & Research (IPAR) (Deputy Chair of NeTT4Peace)
Eugenia Kayitesi
(Not specified)
African Youth Ambassador for Peace, Southern African Region.
Mpule Kgetsi
(Not specified)
Assistant Minister for African Organizations and Communities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
Ashraf Swelam
(Egypt)
Director of Conflict Management, Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department, African Union Commission
Alhadji Sarjoh Bah
(Not specified)
Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS)
Mohammed El-Amine Souef
(Not specified)
Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA
El-Ghassim Wane
(Not specified)
Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union to the African Union
Riccardo Mosca
(Not specified)
Regional Director East Africa and Representative to the AU, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Vice Chair, NeTT4Peace
Dr. Paul-Simon Handy
(Not specified)
Executive Secretary,
Liptako-Gourma Authority
Hawa Aw
(Not specified)
Director of Climate Action
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Rania Ahmed Sharshar
(Not specified)
Special Envoy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Senior Adviser to the COP29 Lead Negotiator
H.E. Elshad Iskandarov
(Republic of Azerbaijan)
Lead on Strategic Governmental Relations, Green Climate Fund
H.E. Mohamed Khalil
(Not specified)
Head of the Peace and Stability Unit, Directorate of Political Affairs and Democratic Governance
International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)
André Abel Barry
(Not specified)
Director of Regional Office, UNESCO for Egypt
Nuria Sanz
(Not specified)
Commissioner General of the National Scouting Association of Niger.
Aliou Oumarou
(Niger)
President, Center for Development Studies and the Prevention of Extremism, Chad.
Pr. Ahmat YACOUB
(Chad)
African Youth Ambassador for Peace
Northern African Region
Arif Abdeljalil
(Not specified)
Youth Ambassador
ECOWAS Youth Council
Dauda Gidado
(Not specified)
Peace Education Specialist,
International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa, UNESCO
Eyerusalem Azmeraw
(Not specified)
Representative to the Middle East, International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)
Lévon Amirjanyan
(Not specified)
Director General, The Egyptian Center for Thought and Strategic Studies
Khaled Okasha
(Not specified)
Peace Commissioner National Peace Commission
Suleiman Mohamed al-Dabello
(Sudan )
Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for UN Security Council Election Affairs Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)
Shinsuke SHIMIZU
(Not specified)
Assistant High Commissioner for Operations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR
Raouf Mazou
(Not specified)
Director, Regional Integration Coordination Office, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Maria Antonia Joy KATEGEKWA
(Not specified)
Manager AU/AfCFTA Relations and Trade Policy, Afreximbank
Adham AbdelAal
(Not specified)
H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat
(Republic of Chad)
Chairperson
African Union Commission
H.E. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Secretary General, League of Arab States
H.E. Sameh Shoukry
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt & Chairman, International Advisory Board
H.E. Amre Moussa
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Chairman, Panel of the Wise
H.E. Hanna Tetteh
(Republic of Ghana)
SRSG to the African Union and Head of the UNOAU
H.E. Ghada Waly
(UNODC)
Director General, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
H.E. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
(Gabonese Republic)
Special Envoy, Horn of Africa, United Nations
Ms. Elizabeth Spehar
(DPPA-PBSO)
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Dr. Yero Baldeh
(AfDB)
Director, Transition States Coordination Office, African Development Bank (AfDB)
H.E. Ahmed Abdel-Latif
(Egypt)
Director General, Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), Executive Director of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development and Co-Chair AU NeTT4Peace.
H.E. William Azumah Awinador-Kanyirige
(African Union)
Senior Advisor of the African Union on Governance and Peacebuilding at the Office of the Commissioner, Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African Union (AU)
H.E. Ihab Awad
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Assistant Minister for African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Mamman Nuhu
(LCBC & MNJTF)
Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and Head of Mission, Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram
H.E. Bankole Adeoye
(African Union)
Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African UnionCommissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African Union
H.E. Jean-Pierre Lacroix
(United Nations)
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Department of Peace Operations, United Nations
Ms. Fauziya Abdi Ali
(Somalia)
Founder and President, Women in International Security, Horn of Africa
H.E. Mohamed Nasr
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Ambassador, Director of Climate, Environment and Sustainable Development Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Cristina Duarte
(United Nations)
Under-Secretary‑General and Special Adviser on Africa, United Nations
Karim Refaat
(Egypt)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of N Gage Consulting
Kenyeh Barlay (Ballay)
(Republic of Sierra Leone)
Minister of Planning and Economic Development (MoPED), the Republic of Sierra Leone, Chair g7+
Dr. Comfort Ero
(Liberia)
President of the International Crisis Group
H.E. Mona Al-Khalili
(Palestine)
Minister of Women’s Affairs
H.E. Cristoph Heusgen
(Germany)
Chairman of Munich Security Conference
Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner
(Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and the Francophonie.
Hawa Sally Samai
(Sierra Leone)
Executive Secretary of Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC).
Effie Owuor
(Kenya)
Chair of the Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation (FemWise-Africa) and Chair of the African Union’s Panel of the Wise
Moez Doraid
(Not specified)
Regional Director for the Arab States ad interim, UN Women
Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade
(Nigeria)
Vice-President for the Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Salah Jama
(Federal Republic of Somalia)
Deputy Prime Minister
Nardos Bekele-Thomas
(Nigeria)
Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
Amy Pope
(Not Specified)
Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Abdallah Al Dardari
(Not Specified )
Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States
Mohamed Omar Gad
(Egypt)
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Ethiopia
Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the African Union
Robert Dussey
(Republic of Togo)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ramadan Mohammed Abdallah Goc
(Republic of South Sudan)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mahamadou Oumar Kone
(Republic of Mali)
Minister of Religious Affairs
Moumin Hassan Barreh
(Republic of Djibouti )
Minister of Islamic Affairs and Endowments
Abdullahi M. Nor
(Federal Republic of Somalia)
Senior Advisor to the President of Somalia for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, the Federal Republic of Somalia & Director, Tubsan National Center for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (TNC-PCVE)
Fatima Akilu
(Not specified)
Executive Director of Neem Foundation
Simone Mbode Diouf
(Not specified )
African Youth Ambassador, West Africa Region
Julien Vikemba
(Not specified)
African Youth Ambassador, Central Africa Region
Hodan Osman
(Federal Republic of Somalia )
Governor of Somali Development and Reconstruction Bank
Mahmoud Mohieldin
(Not specified)
Executive Director, International Monetary Fund ( IMF) & United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Development Agenda
Babagana Umara Zulum
(The Federal Republic of Nigeria )
Executive Governor, Borno State
Emanuela Del Re
(Not specified)
EU Special Representative for the Sahel
William Chemaly
(Not specified)
Principal Adviser, Solutions to Internal Displacement, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations Office in Geneva
Libakiso Matlho
(Not specified )
Executive Secretary
African Union Centre for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (AU PCRD)
Dagmawit Moges Bekele
(Not Specified )
The Peace Fund Secretariat of the African Union
Jean Van Wetter
(Belgium)
Chief Executive Officer of Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency
Habib Ur Rehman Mayar
(Not Specified)
Deputy Secretary General, G7+
Yuko DOHI
(Japan)
Senior Advisor, Governance and Peacebuilding Department
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Solomon A. Dersso
(Not specified)
Founding Director
Amani Africa
Member, NeTT4Peace Strategy Group
Mohamed Idris
(Not specified)
Member of the Seventh Advisory Group of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF)
Fatima Mohammed
(Not specified)
Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations
Jerobeam Shaanika
(Republic of Namibia)
Head of Multilateral Relations and Cooperation, Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation.
Zaheer Laher
(South Africa)
Chief Director: United Nations Political, Peace and Security, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) of South Africa
Marie-Antoinette Rose Quatre
(Not specified)
Chief Executive Officer, African Peer Review Mechanism
Itonde Kakoma
(Not specified)
President of International Organization for Peacebuilding
Jevin Pillay
(Not specified)
Permanent Representative of SADC to the African Union
Andrea Prah
(Not specified)
Senior Researcher at the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
Eugenia Kayitesi
(Not specified)
Executive Director, Institute of Policy Analysis & Research (IPAR) (Deputy Chair of NeTT4Peace)
Mpule Kgetsi
(Not specified)
African Youth Ambassador for Peace, Southern African Region.
Ashraf Swelam
(Egypt)
Assistant Minister for African Organizations and Communities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
Alhadji Sarjoh Bah
(Not specified)
Director of Conflict Management, Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department, African Union Commission
Mohammed El-Amine Souef
(Not specified)
Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS)
El-Ghassim Wane
(Not specified)
Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA
Riccardo Mosca
(Not specified)
Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union to the African Union
Dr. Paul-Simon Handy
(Not specified)
Regional Director East Africa and Representative to the AU, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Vice Chair, NeTT4Peace
Hawa Aw
(Not specified)
Executive Secretary,
Liptako-Gourma Authority
Rania Ahmed Sharshar
(Not specified)
Director of Climate Action
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
H.E. Elshad Iskandarov
(Republic of Azerbaijan)
Special Envoy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Senior Adviser to the COP29 Lead Negotiator
H.E. Mohamed Khalil
(Not specified)
Lead on Strategic Governmental Relations, Green Climate Fund
André Abel Barry
(Not specified)
Head of the Peace and Stability Unit, Directorate of Political Affairs and Democratic Governance
International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)
Nuria Sanz
(Not specified)
Director of Regional Office, UNESCO for Egypt
Aliou Oumarou
(Niger)
Commissioner General of the National Scouting Association of Niger.
Pr. Ahmat YACOUB
(Chad)
President, Center for Development Studies and the Prevention of Extremism, Chad.
Arif Abdeljalil
(Not specified)
African Youth Ambassador for Peace
Northern African Region
Dauda Gidado
(Not specified)
Youth Ambassador
ECOWAS Youth Council
Eyerusalem Azmeraw
(Not specified)
Peace Education Specialist,
International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa, UNESCO
Lévon Amirjanyan
(Not specified)
Representative to the Middle East, International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)
Khaled Okasha
(Not specified)
Director General, The Egyptian Center for Thought and Strategic Studies
Suleiman Mohamed al-Dabello
(Sudan )
Peace Commissioner National Peace Commission
Shinsuke SHIMIZU
(Not specified)
Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for UN Security Council Election Affairs Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)
Raouf Mazou
(Not specified)
Assistant High Commissioner for Operations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR
Maria Antonia Joy KATEGEKWA
(Not specified)
Director, Regional Integration Coordination Office, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Adham AbdelAal
(Not specified)
Manager AU/AfCFTA Relations and Trade Policy, Afreximbank