Florentine Visser (Msc.) is senior advisor in the Energy Team of the International Development Department at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). In the Energy Transition Facility, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she develops bilateral knowledge exchange with selected governments.

Florentine has a longstanding experience in energy efficient building in the Netherlands and MENA region, ranging from design and construction to strategic policy advise. Graduate from the Building Engineering Faculty, at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) and award winner in competitions on water and energy efficient building.

Helen Naser is an advisor at the Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB), an initiative of the French and German governments. She currently coordinates GIZ’s PEEB implementation in Tunisia and Morocco. An economist by training, she has devoted much of her professional life to energy transition challenges and more particularly energy efficiency in the buildings sector from a public policy and finance perspective. She worked for GIZ and consultancy companies among others in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.

Bernard MASSABO is an engineer from the rench « Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech » Engineering School.
After graduating, he has been working for the private sector at international level.
He joined fifteen years ago the Local Authority Nice Cote d’Azur Metropolis, on the urban planning and development side.
Since five years, he has been appointed General Secretary of the Euromed Cities Network.
Gathering more than 150 cities from the EU and the MED Basin, the Euromed Cities Network aims at strengthening the transborder cooperation in the Mediterranean region by implementing projects related to innovation, fight against climate change, notably energy efficiency, waste and water management, youth employment, security, …

Blanca Moreno-Dodson is the Manager of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), a partnership between the World Bank and several national, regional, and local authorities from around the Mediterranean, as well as international financial institutions and civil society. www.cmimarseille.org
She has over twenty-eight years of experience as a World Bank development economist, including several positions as Lead Economist, mainly for the Global Tax Team, the West Africa Region, the Investment Climate Department, and the Office of the Vice-President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management. As a Senior Economist, she previously worked at the World Bank Institute, the West Africa Region, and the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank. Her regional experience includes the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia (China, India, and Indonesia). She started her career as a Robert Shuman scholar at the European Parliament and as junior economist at the European Commission, before joining the World Bank Group.
Moreno-Dodson authored and co-authored five books throughout her career including “Enhancing Mediterranean Integration” (CMI, 2020), “Winning the Tax Wars, Tax Competition and Cooperation” (Wolters Kluwer, 2017), “Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? A Developing Country Perspective” (World Bank, 2013), “Public Finance for Poverty Reduction. Case Studies for Africa and Latin America” (World Bank, 2006) and “Scaling Up Poverty Reduction” (World Bank, 2005). She has also been published in several internationally renowned economic journals, such as the Bulletin of Economic Research, Hacienda Pública Española, the USA National Tax Association Journal, and Banca d’Italia Annual Volumes.
She is a member of the Alumni Strategic Council of the Aix-Marseille University, France, and of the Steering Committee of the Navarra Center for International Development, Spain, and a guest lecturer at Duke University, USA, and Aix-Marseille University, France.
Moreno-Dodson holds a Ph.D. as well as a Masters (Diplome D’Etudes Approfondies) in International Economics and Finance from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, in addition to a Masters (Licenciatura) in Economics from the University Autonomous of Madrid, Spain. Originally from Zaragoza, Spain, she is fluent in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese.

Ms. Radia Sedaoui is the Chief of the Energy Section in the Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability Cluster of the UN Economic Social Commission of West Asia (ESCWA).
Ms. Sedaoui has an extensive experience in energy policy advice, renewable energy and energy efficiency, energy modeling, water-energy-food nexus, economic diversification and climate change policies and technologies, petroleum economics, oil and gas fiscal regimes and energy market developments.
Ms. Radia previously served as Head Statistics and Gas Modeling Department at the Intergovernmental Organization of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum and previously held several senior positions in Algeria with “Sonatrach” as Director of Strategy and Corporate, Head Portfolio management and member of the Board of Directors of Sonatrach affiliates in Upstream, Midstream and Trading.
Ms. Sedaoui holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, master’s in petroleum economics and master’s degree in business administration. Ms. Radia is the President of the “Arab Energy Club” and member of the “Algerian Association for Renewable Energies”.

Zoheir Hamedi is the MENA Programme Officer at IRENA. Previous professional experiences included: Assistant-Professor at Qatar University, teaching energy policy courses in the Public Policy programme of the university; Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute, Qatar; Senior Executive at the Algerian National Oil Company, SONATRACH, in the Planning, Strategy and Economics Department (SPE); and Climate Security and Energy Affairs Officer at the British Embassy in Algiers.

He graduated with a BA in Political Science and Economics from the American University in Cairo, with a focus on Middle East politics and international relations; and an MA in International Relations from Nantes University in France, with a focus on NATO security strategy in the Mediterranean basin from 1949 to 2000; and a PhD from Durham University in the UK: a future study focusing on the political economy of energy transitions in the GCC countries.

Florentine Visser (Msc.) is senior advisor in the Energy Team of the International Development Department at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). In the Energy Transition Facility, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she develops bilateral knowledge exchange with selected governments.

Florentine has a longstanding experience in energy efficient building in the Netherlands and MENA region, ranging from design and construction to strategic policy advise. Graduate from the Building Engineering Faculty, at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) and award winner in competitions on water and energy efficient building.

Helen Naser is an advisor at the Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB), an initiative of the French and German governments. She currently coordinates GIZ’s PEEB implementation in Tunisia and Morocco. An economist by training, she has devoted much of her professional life to energy transition challenges and more particularly energy efficiency in the buildings sector from a public policy and finance perspective. She worked for GIZ and consultancy companies among others in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.

Bernard MASSABO is an engineer from the rench « Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech » Engineering School.
After graduating, he has been working for the private sector at international level.
He joined fifteen years ago the Local Authority Nice Cote d’Azur Metropolis, on the urban planning and development side.
Since five years, he has been appointed General Secretary of the Euromed Cities Network.
Gathering more than 150 cities from the EU and the MED Basin, the Euromed Cities Network aims at strengthening the transborder cooperation in the Mediterranean region by implementing projects related to innovation, fight against climate change, notably energy efficiency, waste and water management, youth employment, security, …

Blanca Moreno-Dodson is the Manager of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), a partnership between the World Bank and several national, regional, and local authorities from around the Mediterranean, as well as international financial institutions and civil society. www.cmimarseille.org
She has over twenty-eight years of experience as a World Bank development economist, including several positions as Lead Economist, mainly for the Global Tax Team, the West Africa Region, the Investment Climate Department, and the Office of the Vice-President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management. As a Senior Economist, she previously worked at the World Bank Institute, the West Africa Region, and the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank. Her regional experience includes the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia (China, India, and Indonesia). She started her career as a Robert Shuman scholar at the European Parliament and as junior economist at the European Commission, before joining the World Bank Group.
Moreno-Dodson authored and co-authored five books throughout her career including “Enhancing Mediterranean Integration” (CMI, 2020), “Winning the Tax Wars, Tax Competition and Cooperation” (Wolters Kluwer, 2017), “Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? A Developing Country Perspective” (World Bank, 2013), “Public Finance for Poverty Reduction. Case Studies for Africa and Latin America” (World Bank, 2006) and “Scaling Up Poverty Reduction” (World Bank, 2005). She has also been published in several internationally renowned economic journals, such as the Bulletin of Economic Research, Hacienda Pública Española, the USA National Tax Association Journal, and Banca d’Italia Annual Volumes.
She is a member of the Alumni Strategic Council of the Aix-Marseille University, France, and of the Steering Committee of the Navarra Center for International Development, Spain, and a guest lecturer at Duke University, USA, and Aix-Marseille University, France.
Moreno-Dodson holds a Ph.D. as well as a Masters (Diplome D’Etudes Approfondies) in International Economics and Finance from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, in addition to a Masters (Licenciatura) in Economics from the University Autonomous of Madrid, Spain. Originally from Zaragoza, Spain, she is fluent in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese.

Ms. Radia Sedaoui is the Chief of the Energy Section in the Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability Cluster of the UN Economic Social Commission of West Asia (ESCWA).
Ms. Sedaoui has an extensive experience in energy policy advice, renewable energy and energy efficiency, energy modeling, water-energy-food nexus, economic diversification and climate change policies and technologies, petroleum economics, oil and gas fiscal regimes and energy market developments.
Ms. Radia previously served as Head Statistics and Gas Modeling Department at the Intergovernmental Organization of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum and previously held several senior positions in Algeria with “Sonatrach” as Director of Strategy and Corporate, Head Portfolio management and member of the Board of Directors of Sonatrach affiliates in Upstream, Midstream and Trading.
Ms. Sedaoui holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, master’s in petroleum economics and master’s degree in business administration. Ms. Radia is the President of the “Arab Energy Club” and member of the “Algerian Association for Renewable Energies”.

Zoheir Hamedi is the MENA Programme Officer at IRENA. Previous professional experiences included: Assistant-Professor at Qatar University, teaching energy policy courses in the Public Policy programme of the university; Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute, Qatar; Senior Executive at the Algerian National Oil Company, SONATRACH, in the Planning, Strategy and Economics Department (SPE); and Climate Security and Energy Affairs Officer at the British Embassy in Algiers.

He graduated with a BA in Political Science and Economics from the American University in Cairo, with a focus on Middle East politics and international relations; and an MA in International Relations from Nantes University in France, with a focus on NATO security strategy in the Mediterranean basin from 1949 to 2000; and a PhD from Durham University in the UK: a future study focusing on the political economy of energy transitions in the GCC countries.