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Workshop 3: The Role of the Private Sector in Promoting Economic and Political Reform Prof. Giacomo Luciani Gulf Research Center Foundation Dr. Bassma Kodmani Arab Reform Initiative At the start of the workshop, the directors laid out the objectives for the discussions that would be taking place over the next three days. The convening of the workshop “The Role of the Private Sector in Promoting Economic and Political Reform” stems from a joint project currently being carried out by the Arab Reform Initiative and the Gulf Research Center which examines how the private sector is influencing the reform process in the Arab world, for example through lobbying efforts to demand different economic policies, through labor reform, etc. The project represents new avenues for research as political scientists are not always equipped to look at economic issues and economists do not necessarily explore political dimensions. Thus the papers presented at the workshop contributed to our understanding of this topic and filled a certain gap in research on the region. An important issue addressed throughout concerned the generational element and role of international education in shaping the contours of the private sector, and specifically in shaping their visions and priorities in terms of social, political, and economic models. Indeed, this became a common thread through all the papers. Understanding the positions of the private sector, and in particular the differing visions between different types of profiles within the private sector – is a means of understanding to what extent they are interested in being actors in the reform process, as well as how to position themselves to the state. The discussions also focused to an important extent on the question of identity and nationality. How do these business elites see themselves, and what is the position and role of expatriate business actors? Indeed, nationalizing expatriate business actors could have an important impact on determining who will push for reform and what kind of reform will be sought. New avenues for further research were identified during the discussion. Most importantly, was understanding the vision of society that private sector actors hold, and what actions they are taking – if any – to achieve this vision. Gulf Research Meeting – July 2010 51
52 The 2010 Gulf Research Meeting Workshop Director Profiles Prof. Giacomo Luciani Prof. Giacomo Luciani is Senior Advisor, Gulf Research Center and Director, The Gulf Research Center Foundation, Geneva. Since 1997, he has been Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the SAIS Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre. Currently, he is also Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and at the University of Lausanne. From 2000-06, he was Professor of Political Economy and co-director of the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He has been visiting professor at the CAP, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in München, Germany (2004-05), Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris (1994-97) and the Department of Economics at UCLA (1986-88). From May 1990-May 2000, Prof. Luciani worked with ENI as Vice President in charge of international intelligence and major strategic projects involving several lines of business. Earlier, during 1988-90, he was Plan Operations Manager, SRI International team, at the Ministry of Planning, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 1977-1986, Prof. Luciani, who began his career as an economist with the Bank of Italy, was associated with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), first as Director of Economic Studies, then as Director of Studies. He founded and directed the Institute for Research on International Economics (IRECI) from
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