08:45

Registration & Welcome coffee

Session 3

ECONOMIC & SOCIAL POLICY IN INTEGRATION

Academics

• Robin WILSON, researcher, analyst and journalist
• Marwan MOHAMMAD, sociologist, Senior Researcher at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), co-author of “Islamophoby: how French elites are crating the Muslim problem”
• Erkan TOGUSLU, Researcher, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre, KU Leuven                               

• Stefano RIZZO, former professor of international affairs at the University of Rome La Sapienza, FEPS Scientific Council

Policy Makers

• Muna DUZDAR, Member of Vienna State Parliament and of the Vienna City Council
• Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Member of the European Parliament
• Rachid MADRANE, Minister of Youth Aid, Houses of Justice and Promotion of Brussels to the Federation Wallonia- Brussels, responsible for supervision of the French Community Commission 
• James McKAY, Cabinet Member for Inclusion, Birmingham City Council                
• Emil KIR, Mayor of the Saint-Josse Commune, Brussels Capital Region 

Civil Society

• Michael PRIVOT, Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), scholar of Arabic language and Islamic studies
• Ghias AL-JUNDI, Syrian journalist and human rights activist
• Ignacio CEMBRERO, notorious Spanish reporter, El Mundo
• Rainer MUNZ, Head of Research & Knowledge Center (Erste Group) 

Representatives of the Religious Communities in Europe

• Philippe MARKIEWICZ, President of the Israeli Central Consistory of Belgium 
• Hocine BEN ADBERRAHMANE, historian and Imam at the Brussels El Azhar Mosque 
• Tarafa BAGHAJATI, Cultural Officer of the Islamic Community in Vienna, Chair of AMI ‘Austrian Muslim Initiative’, Member of ENAR’ Advisory Council
• Mehmet CELEBI, Member of the Board, Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD)   

Piotr PLEWA, Senior Expert at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of Poland

11:00 – 13:30

Progressive leaders debate

•        Sergei STANISHEV – President of the Party of European Socialists
•        Pedro SÁNCHEZ - Leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)
•        Diederik SAMSOM - Leader of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA)
•        József TÓBIAS - Leader of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP)
•        Ouafa HAJJI – President of the Socialist International Women (SIW)
•        Laura SLIMANI – President of Young European Socialists (YES)
•        Árni Páll ÁRNASON - Leader of the Icelandic Social Democratic Alliance 

•        Charle PICQUÉ- Minister of State, President of the Brussels Parliament, Mayor of Saint-Gilles

13:30 - 14:00

Lunch