Ahmed Charai

  • Board Member
  • Chairman and CEO, Global Media Holding

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Middle East Morocco North & West Africa
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Nov 9, 2020

Charai in The Hill: Biden’s big challenges

By Atlantic Council

Despite the major challenges that President-elect Joe Biden faces, including fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, uniting a deeply divided country, addressing economic recession, and more, Atlantic Council Board Director Ahmed Charai argues that there is a major opportunity for the United States to regain its place as a principled world leader under the new administration.

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Oct 8, 2020

Charai in the National Interest: Why the coronavirus can’t kill the American spirit

By Atlantic Council

Though the world is currently mired in crisis, facing challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic and its associated impacts, the United States remains an essential global leader and the only country able to organize to meet the danger of rising authoritarian powers. Confronted with these immense challenges, Atlantic Council Board Director Ahmed Charai argues, the United States will still prevail along with its values. Read Charai's latest in the National Interest on the resilience of the American spirit.

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Sep 16, 2020

Charai in The Hill: Abraham Accords: New hope for peace in Middle East

By Atlantic Council

Though some in Arab countries fear that signing a peace agreement with Israel will threaten the prospects for a two-state solution, the Abraham Accords could mark a major turning point in the Middle East. And, Atlantic Council Board Director Ahmed Charai argues, could present an opportunity for both Israelis and Palestinians to see increased security, economic opportunity, and hope. Read Atlantic Council Board Director Ahmed Charai's latest in The Hill on the potential for peace in the Middle East as a result of the Abraham Accords.

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Ahmed Charai is an Atlantic Council board member and the chairman and chief executive officer of Global Media Holding, a publishing and broadcasting conglomerate. Charai is also a publisher of the weekly Moroccan newspaper L’Observateur, president of a national broadcast network in Morocco, MED Radio and MEDTV network, and chairman of the board of Al-Ahdath al-Maghrebiya, an Arabic daily newspaper. As an expert on Morocco and North Africa, he is also a Mideast policy advisor in Washington whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Hill, Foreign Policy, National Interest, the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, and more. 

Charai is also on the board of directors of other think tanks, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, International Crisis Group, International Center for Journalists, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Center for National Interest, and the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. 

He received his master’s degree in management from the University of Angers in France; a diploma from the Higher School of Business and Management of Toulouse, France; and a master’s degree in constitutional law and political sciences from the University of Rabat, Morocco.