KAWAKIBI Salam

Function : Deputy Director, Arab Reform Initiative (ARI)

Speech : Saturday 7 October

Committee : Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security

Website : www.arab-reform.net

Twitter : @salamkawakibi

Biography

Salam Kawakibi is the President of Initiative for a New Syria, board member of The Day After association, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, non-resident fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council and a member of the Consultative Council of the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly (MCA).
Mr. Kawakibi is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM). He teaches in the Masters programme on Development and Migration at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Between 2009 and 2011, he was principal researcher at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam and between 2000 and 2006, he was director of the Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO) in Aleppo, Syria.
He holds a DEA in Political Sciences from l'Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Aix-En-Provence, a DEA in International Relations from Aleppo University and a BA in Economy from Aleppo University.

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Directeur adjoint et directeur de recherche au centre : Initiative Arabe de Réforme  

Président de l’association : Initiative pour une Syrie nouvelle

Chercheur principal (2009 – 2011) à la faculté des sciences sociales et politiques à l’université d’Amsterdam.

Directeur (2000 – 2006) de Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO – ex IFEAD) : chercheur et responsable de l’Antenne d’Alep.

Membre du comité de rédaction de la revue « Confluences Méditerranéennes »   

Membre du Conseil consultatif de l’Assemblée des citoyens et citoyennes de la Méditerranée