Mehdi Jomaa, Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)  and Member of Club de Madrid, who as head of government, was in charge of completing the transition process with the ultimate objective of anchoring the country towards a democratic way.
Mehdi Jomaa was born in Mahdia, Tunisia, in April 1962; he received his Master’s Degree in Engineering in Tunisia (ENIT).
As CEO of Hutchinson Aerospace Division and Member of the Executive committee along 25 years spent at Hutchinson, he worked on several programs dealing with aerospace industries, developing solid strategy, international business management, organization change and transformation leadership.
The switch from corporate to political career began in March 2013, when he was appointed Minister of Industry in Tunisia. In this capacity he initiated several policy changes including a new energy strategy with an increasing mix of renewable, high-added value industrial policy, rationalisation of energy subsidies, culture change and social responsibility in Tunisian large industrial groups. In January 2014 and after several months of an acute political crisis, which stalled the transition process, he was elected by the National Dialogue Committee to lead the country and became the Head of Government.
As Head of Government, he introduced a new and innovative governance procedure based on a trilogy of “vision, strategy and leadership”. During his tenure in office, Mr Jomaa restructured and enhanced the capabilities of the security apparatus for a more efficient response to terrorism, launched the national economic dialogue to build national consensus around priority fiscal and structural reforms. In September 2014 he organised a major investment conference entitled “Invest in Tunisia: Start-up Democracy”.
Mr. Jomaa is founder of a think tank “Tunisia Alternatives” aiming to work on various policy reforms and provides a high-level technical expertise on Reforms processes and Social Policies. Furthermore, he is holder of decorations of the Tunisian Order of the Republic and the German Order of Merit. He was awarded the 2014 Amadeus “Man of the Year” distinction from Morocco.

Dr. Hakima El Haité, Founder of EauGlobe, is currently an advisor of Senegal’s President Macky Sall for his zero waste initiative. Ex-Minister of Environment of Morocco, she was elected Vice-President of the United Nations Paris Climate Conference in 2015. In 2016, she was appointed High Level Climate Champion of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for COP22. She holds two PhDs, one in environmental studies from the University of Meknes and one in Environmental Engineering from the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, France. Hakima El Haité was listed in 2019, 2022 and 2023 as one of the “100 most influential people in climate policy” curated by Apolitical.

Dr. Richard Elelman studied Politics in the UK before living in France, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East, Sudan, Afghanistan and India. He is currently the Head of Politics at EURECAT in Barcelona, the co-leader of the RENAISSANCE Science-Art-Sustainability programme with the European Commission and has just completed an eight-month assignment as the Acting Coordinator of the United Nations’ World Water Quality Alliance based at the UN in Nairobi. The former Deputy Mayor of Figueres in Spain, he is a political analyst who has, in recent years, specialised in Environmental and Scientific Policy and the links between Politics, the world of Research and Development and Citizen Engagement. He works in collaboration with many supranational organisations such as the UN Environment Programme, UNESCO, the World Bank and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as an External Expert. His latest publication, ‘The Gateway to the Future of the Mediterranean’ addresses the issue of the WEFE NEXUS. His principal activities at present, include defining the socio-political consequences of Climate Change on Migration, Health, Conflict and Gender Equality. He is a regular speaker at numerous international conferences in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.