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JEI
Session at the World Economic Forum May 19 ,
2007 - Dead Sea ,Jordan
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Agenda
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Participant List
Final Agenda
DEAD SEA,
JORDAN 19 MAY 2007
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Venue: Movenpick Hotel Dead Sea
Al-Diwan 1&2
Facilitated by: Mr. Alex Wong, Director, Head of Centre for Global
Industries (Geneva), World Economic Forum
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18.00 – 18.05 |
Opening Remarks
H.E.
Dr. Fawaz H. Zu’bi, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Jordan
Education Initiative
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18.05 – 18.20 |
Update on the Jordan Education
Initiative
Mr. Haif Bannayan,
JEI Executive Director
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18.20 – 19.00
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Work Group Discussion
Five roundtable
discussions targeting five of the JEI key priorities:
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Develop cost effective
teaching models using technology that are ready to roll out to
all schools
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Expand research and
development to continually bring forward the latest innovations
in education
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Build a Lifelong
Learning policy and specify the role JEI should assume to
implement it
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Institute JEI as a
“Centre of Excellence” addressing services and revenue streams
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Develop change
management and training policies and implementation strategies |
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19.00 – 19.25 |
Summary of outcomes from
each group discussion
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19.25 – 19.30 |
Closing Remarks
H.E.
Dr. Khaled Toukan, Chairman of JEI Local Board, Minister of
Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research of Jordan. |
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List of Participants
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Name |
Title |
Organization |
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Ramzi T.
AbdelJaber
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Principal and Head, Business Development |
Investcorp Bank BSC |
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Khaldun A.
Abuhassan
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Chairman of the Board |
Jordan Insurance Company |
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Suhair Al Ali
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Minister of Planning and International Cooperation of the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
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Bruno Alves |
Government Affairs Manager, Central Europe Middle East and
Africa
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Nike EMEA |
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Lisa Anderson
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Dean, School of International and Public Affairs |
Columbia
University |
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Haif Bannayan
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Executive Director |
Jordan Education
Initiative |
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Hala Bsaisu
Lattouf
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Executive Director |
World Links Arab Region |
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Jennifer Corriero
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Co-Founder and Executive Director |
TakingITGlobal |
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Soumitra Dutta
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Dean, External Relations, and Roland Berger Professor of
Business and Technology |
INSEAD |
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Usama M. Fayyad
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Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice-President, Research
and Strategic Data Solutions |
Yahoo! Inc. |
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Pertti Johansson
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President, Middle East and Africa |
Qualcomm Inc. |
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Majied Qasem
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Managing Director |
RAZORView Advisors |
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Martina A. Roth |
Director, Education, Europe, Middle East and Africa |
Intel Corporation |
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Zeid Shubailat
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Country Manager |
Microsoft Corporation |
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Khaled Toukan |
Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education and
Scientific Research of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
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Walid Al Turk
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Secretary-General |
The Higher Council For Science and Technology |
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Ali Faramawy
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Vice President Middle East & Africa |
Microsoft corporation |
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Alex Wong
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Director, Head
of Centre for Global Industries (Geneva), World Economic Forum |
World Economic
Forum |
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Ian McLellan |
Acting Executive
Director, Development Coordination Unit and Education Reform for
Knowledge Economy Project, Ministry of Education of Jordan |
Ministry of
Education of Jordan |
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Shukri Eid
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Senior Adviser,
Cisco, United Arab Emirates |
Cisco Systems
International BV |
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Tayseer Al-Nahar
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Secretary-General, Education & Technical Affairs, Ministry of
Education of Jordan |
Ministry of
Education of Jordan |
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Sherif Seddik
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Regional General
Manager, Sales, Marketing and Services, Middle East and Africa,
Microsoft, Turkey |
Microsoft |
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Fawaz Hatim Zu'bi
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President and
Chief Executive Officer, Accelerator Technology Holdings, Jordan |
Accelerator
Technology Holdings |
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Randa S. Ayoubi
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Chief Executive
Officer, Rubicon, Jordan |
Rubicon |
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Nidal Abou-Ltaif
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Managing
Director, Avaya, United Arab Emirates |
Avaya |
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Zika Abzuk-Darnell
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Manager, Public
Benefit Investment, Europe and Emerging Markets, Cisco, Israel |
Cisco |
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Isam Ayoubi
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Vice-President |
Rubicon |
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Peter A. Malnak
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General
Development Officer, USAID - US Government Agency for
International Development, Amman |
USAID - US
Government Agency for International Development |
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Yousef Khalili
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Regional
Manager, Middle East and Africa, Commercial Business, Cisco,
United Arab Emirates
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Cisco Systems
International BV |
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Dan Shine
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Director, 50x15
Initiative, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.), USA |
AMD (Advanced
Micro Devices Inc.) |
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Luma Atallah
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Projects
Coordinator |
Jordan Education
Initiative |
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Hazem Malhas
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Optimiza |
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Saed Naser |
Chief Executive
Officer |
Fastlink |
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