UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY KING MOHAMMED VI
WEFE Nexus 2025 Concept Note
Drought increasingly affects urban areas.
Growing tensions over food and energy security due to geopolitical crises
Key Figures
4 Pillars of WEFE Nexus
Speakers
HE. Nizar BARAKA
Minister of Equipment and Water
HE. Leila BENALI
Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development
HE. Younes TAZI
Wali of the region, Ministry of the Interior
HE. Omar MORO
President of the Council of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region
HE. Mbarka BOUAIDA
President of the Association of Regions of Morocco
Mr. Redouan ARRACH
Secretary General of the Ministery of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests
Mrs. Firdaous OUSSIDHOUM
Assistant-Secretary General for Monitoring and Impact United Cities and Local Governments World Secretariat
Mr.Mohamed BEHNASSI
Expert at the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MEDECC)
Mr. Andy DEACON
Co-Managing Director, Global Covenant of
Mayors for Climate and Energy
Mrs. Ghada AMIN
Resource Nexus Researcher
-MENA, United Nations University-FLORES
Mr.Mohamed SEFIANI
Mayor of Chefchaouen
Mr. Hammou LAAMRANI
Senior Expert at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA)
Mr. Hassan AGOUZOUL
International Expert
Mr. Elimane Abdoul FALL
Head of Hydrology Division, Ministry of Hydraulics and Sanitation of the Republic of Senegal
Mr. Juan OJEDA COUCHOUD
Director TYPSA Madrid, Member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Mediterranean Institute of Water (IME)
Mr. Mohammed Zaki AHMED
Senior Director at Gulf
Organisation for Research & Development (GORD)
Mr. Zakaria EL YACOUBI
Director of Irrigation and Agricultural Land Development at Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water & Forests
Mrs. Barbara TOMASSINI
Senior Program Officer – Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med)
Mr. Oumar BA
President of the Council of Territorial Communities of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA)
Mr. Moez ALLAOUI
Senior Professional Officer at ICLEISenior Professional Officer at ICLEI
Mrs. Jeannette PRETOT
Founding President, Water Embassy
Mrs. Zainab MISHAAL ASHKANANI
Research Scientist, Texas A&M University
Mr. Vicente C. DOMINGO GONZALEZ
Coordinator at Global Council on Sustainable Food Systems
Mr. Mouhssine BENMEZYANE
Head of Cooperation, Communication & Technology Intelligence, IRESEN
Mr. Khalid BENHAMOU
Director, Sahara wind
Mrs. Ilina RADOSLAVOVA STEFANOVA
Program Officer, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Mr. Vinay JAJU
Executive Director, SwitchON Foundation
(Environment Conservation Society)
Mr. Jauad EL KHARRAZ
CEO of Water Energy Climate
Experts Network (WECEN)
Mr. Michael JACOBSON
Professor of Forest Resources at
PennStates University
Mr. Mohamed MAKAOUI
Deputy director of renewable
energy and energy eficiency pole, Moroccan Agency for Energy Eficiency
Mr. Robin DEGRON
Director Plan Bleu UNEP : Beyond
the Climate Change Crisis – What new approach of Great Water Cycle
Mr. Hicham BOUZIANE
Director of planning & regional
development at the Council of the Region
Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
Mr. Ahmad YAQUBI
Water Resources Technical Advisor
Palestinian Water Authority
Mr. Abou Eddihaj TABI
Regional Director of Environment for
the Marrakech-Safi Region and Director of the Program “Marrakech, Ville Durable”
Mr. Mahmoud BADISS
Directorate of Irrigation and
Agricultural Land Development-Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water & Forests
Mr. Charles KLEINMANN
, team Leader – Capacity Development Unit – ICARDA, Interim Deputy Director of Capacity Sharing Accelerator – CGIAR
Mrs. Sarra TOUZI
Senior Water & Climate Resilience
Specialist, Global Water Partnership – Med
Mr. Octavi QUINTANA
Director, PRIMA-MED
Mr. Moukaila MOUBARAK
Director of Sustainable
Development Financing, West African Development Bank
Mr. Mohammed NBOU
Director United Cities and Local
Government (UCLG) of Africa
Mr. Moulay El Hassan ZOUBIR IDRISSI
in charge of the environment, DGCT Ministry of Interior of Morocco
Mr. Ebipere CLARK
Visiting Fellow, Africa Policy Research
Institute (APRI)
Mr. Jubril ADEOJO
Chief Executive Oficer, SMEFUNDS
Capital Limited
Mrs. Xing QI
ESG lead at China Zheshang Securities
Mrs. Amal Atmane
Financial Consultant for the project
“Marrakech, Ville Durable”, GEF-UNDP
Mr. Imtiaz FARHAN BIN HABIB
CEO, Agronochain
Mr. Nadjib DROUICHE
Water and Environmental
Technologies Specialist
Mrs. Pilar ANDRÉS PASTOR
Senior researcher, CREAF
Mr. Khalid AZIM
Researcher, National Institute
of Agronomic Research in Morocco (INRA)
Mr. Abderrahim KSIRI
Member of CESE & President
of AESVT Morocco
Mr. Ahmed MOUSSA
Director of ENSA Tangier :
Hackathon results
Mr. Marouan EL KHATTABI
MENA Business Development
Director, GS INIMA
Mrs. Aicha CHORAK
Director of Research & Development,
New Science School of Engineering (ENSI) – Tangier
Mr. Mohamed ABDEL HAMYD DAWOUD
Advisor on Environment Quality, Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD)
Mr. Hicham FENNIRI
Director of Research & Development,
New Science School of Engineering (ENSI) – Tangier
Mr. Tarik NESH-NASH
Senior Regional Coordinator
(Africa and the Middle East), Open Government Partnership
Mr. Rabie EL KHAMLICHI
Director General of Services for the Tangier Tetouan El Hoceima Region and Head of the
ORVSIT Observatory Project
Mr. Mohammed MAHMOUD
Chief Executive Oficer,
Climate and Water Initiative
Mr. Emad ADLY
Regional Coordinator, Regional Arab
Network for Environment and Development (RAED)
Mr. Abdel Aziz EL JANATI
National Coordinator of the Moroccan Alliance for Climate and Sustainable Development (AMCDD)
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