
Day 1 - Saturday July 7, 2018
09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
09:30 – 11:00 | Session 1 - Lawmaking Process The Honorable Ziyad Baroud |
11:00 – 11:30 | Breaking the Ice |
11:30 – 13:30 |
Session 2 – Parallel Workshops Group A: Public Policy Cycle & Drafting a Policy Proposal Dr. Benalla
Group B: Tips for creating a successful policy reform Dr. Al Ubaydli, Mr. Aref, and Dr. Derawan |
13:30 – 15:00 | Networking Lunch |
15:00 – 16:00 | Session 3 – Speed Exchange Dr. Al Ubaydli, Mr. Aref, Dr. Benalla, and Dr. Derawan |
16:00 – 18:00 |
Session 4 – Parallel Workshops Group A: Tips for creating a successful policy reform Dr. Al Ubaydli, Mr. Aref, and Dr. Derawan
Group B: Public Policy Cycle & Drafting a Policy Proposal Dr. Benalla |
Day 2 - Sunday July 8, 2018
09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
09:30 – 10:30 | Session 5 – Reforms for Peace and Prosperity Dr. Mardini |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Talk |
11:00 – 13:00 |
Session 6 – Parallel Workshops Group A: Position Your Policy Proposal & Understand Your Stakeholders Dr. Benalla
Group B: Tips for Designing Your Policy Paper Dr. Al Ubaydli, Mr. Aref, and Dr. Derawan |
13:00 – 14:00 | Networking Lunch |
14:00 – 16:00 |
Session 7– Parallel Workshops Group A: Tips for Designing Your Policy Paper Dr. Al Ubaydli, Mr. Aref, and Dr. Derawan
Group B: Position Your Policy Proposal & Understand Your Stakeholders Dr. Benalla |
16:00 – 17:00 | Session 8 – Draft Your Policy Proposal |
17:00 – 17:30 | Session 9 – Present Your Proposal |
17:30 – 18:30 | Closing Ceremony & Distribution of Certificates |

Dr. Omar Al Ubaydli
Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli is the Program Director for International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies, an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. He previously served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Advisory Board of Economists and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Mr. Majdi Aref
Mr. Majdi Aref is a policy analyst at LIMS. He holds a Master’s degree in finance from the University of York, in the UK, where he wrote on pricing credit default swaps with industry-specific factors. He previously worked in research at the Economics and Capital Markets Research Center, where he examined the effects of debt on growth. Mr. Aref is regularly invited as a speaker and discussant at roundtables organized by political parties.

The Honorable Ziyad Baroud
Maître Ziyad Baroud is a Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist. He served as minister of interior and municipalities, from 2008 to 2011 for two consecutive cabinets.
An attorney by formation and practice, Baroud is an expert on issues of decentralization and electoral law reform. He is known to abstain from engaging in feudal politics, and to focus instead on building the Lebanese civil society and Lebanese civil institutions. During his mandate, Baroud was credited for pushing forward a culture of responsibility and openness where he made himself easily accessible to all Lebanese citizens.
Baroud was also credited with overseeing Lebanon's best-managed round of elections to date in 2009.

Dr. Zineb Benalla
Dr. Zineb Benalla is an international expert and Consultant in CVE, PVE, CT, good governance, rule of law, democratic transition and peace building. She holds: a BA in International Relations from Al Akhawayan University in Morocco and Georgetown University in the US; a Master’s degree in International laws from Kent Law School and Brussels School of International Studies; a public policy diploma from the Center of Public Policy Research in India; and a Think Tank MBA from Atlas Economic Research Foundation. She established the Averroes Academy for Freedom and Democracy, a public policy workshop. She spent the last 4 years in the Sahel and Maghreb region countering radical ideas and promoting peace reconciliation. She is an international consultant for the USAID, the AECOM International Development and many others.

Dr. Mazen Derawan
Dr. Mazen Derawan is a lifelong entrepreneur. He is the founder of the largest meat processing factory in the Middle East and of a successful, residential construction business in Chicago. Dr. Derawan was the President of the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago and was on the National Board of Directors of the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C. He was also inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2005. Dr. Derawan is also a lifetime member of the American Marketing Association Honorary Society and member of several chambers of commerce and industry.

Dr. Patrick Mardini
Dr. Patrick Mardini is the founder of LIMS . He is often interviewed by TV and radio stations, and newspapers, and invited to lecture in Africa, China, Japan, Europe, the USA and the Middle East. He holds a PhD in economics from Paris Dauphine University in France and a Post-Doctoral in Banking from the Jones Hopkins University in the USA.
LLA 301 Shaping Public Policy
LLA 301 Shaping Public Policy is a two-day workshop followed by a two-months tutoring process. The workshop allows participants to draft a market-oriented policy paper that would serve their group. Each party might have its own priority and LIMS is very flexible on the topic. After the workshop, a tutor will be assigned to each group to walk them through the process of drafting the paper.
By the end of LLA 301, participants will be able to:
- Understand the structure of a policy paper.
- Collect primary and secondary data.
- Build their case using strong arguments.
- Discuss different alternatives and explain their shortcomings.
- Draft a policy proposition and present it to policy-makers.
Format
- Audience: Key people from groups active in the 2019 protests
- Training duration: Two-day workshop + two months of tutoring
- Workshop sessions: six sessions, two hours each
- Meetings with tutor: five meetings
- Number of tutors: six
- Language: Arabic
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