COVID-19 in the Mediterranean and Africa: How did containment and mitigation policies perform?

7 May 2020. EMEA is organising the webinar “COVID-19 in the Mediterranean and Africa: How did containment and mitigation policies perform?”, with the participation of UfM Senior Economic Advisor, Hamed El Etreby.  This first webinar is motivated by the recently published study on “COVID-19 in the Mediterranean and Africa: Diagnosis, Policy Responses, Preliminary Assessment and Way forward”, the result of the collaboration of EMEA and EMNES researchers from across the Euro-Mediterranean and Africa. The webinar will discuss the effectiveness and socio-economic impacts of policy measures taken in the Euro-Mediterranean and Africa with a view to advance further in the policy response assessment on:

1. Preparedness and effectiveness of healthcare systems;
2. Completeness and timeliness of COVID-19 containment policies; and
3. Comprehensiveness (and solidarity) of the socio-economic mitigation policies.

• Fathallah Sijilmassi, Member of the Advisory Board, EMEA, EMNES and Former Ambassador and Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (2012-2018)
• Ambassador Sena Siaw- Boateng, Ambassador of Ghana to Brussels, Luxembourg and EU
• Moubarack Lo, Director General of the Economic Foresight Bureau of Senegal and Former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Senegal
• Hakim Ben Hamouda, Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Tunisia  (to be confirmed)
• Roger Albinyana, Member of EMEA Advisory Board, Director of Mediterranean Regional Policies, European Institute of the Mediterranean and Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona
• Hamed El ETreby, Senior Economic Advisor, Business Development and Employment Division, Union for the Mediterranean