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| A Selection of our Speakers
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 The ICD has hosted a diverse range of prominent figures from international politics, academia, civil society, and the media, from across the world. Speakers at our events include:
 H.E. Mr. Ahmada R. Ngemera
Ambassador of Tanzania to Germany Senator the Hon. Alan Baird Ferguson
The 22nd President of the Australian Senate  Amb. Alessandro Minuto Rizzo
Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO; Former Acting Secretary General  Dr. Alfred Sant
Former Prime Minister of Malta; Currently Member of Malta’s Parliament  President Dr. Alfredo Palacio
Former President of Ecuador Ali Ahmad Jalali
Former Interior Minister of Afghanistan Ana Trisic Babic
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia & Herzegovina Dr. András Simonyi
Hungarian Ambassador to the United States Col. Andrew Budd
Branch Chief, Strategic Policy&Concepts Branch, International Military Staff, NATO Anthony Suau
Photographer, 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi
A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University Bendt Bendtsen
Former Danish Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, Former Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Benjamin Barber
Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, Author of bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld Bertie Ahern
Former Prime Minister of Ireland- Bettina Muscheidt
European Commission - External Relations Directorate-General, Desk Afghanistan
 Amb. Carlo Ungaro
Former Italian Ambassador, adviser to the Italian contingent of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Herat, Afghanistan President Cassam Uteem
Former President of the Republic of Mauritius Prof. Dr. Christian Armbrüster Judge
Berlin Court of Justice (Kammergericht Berlin) Professor of Law, Free University Berlin  Christian Manhart
UNESCO - Chief, Section of Museums and Cultural Objects Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
Head of the department of Energy, Transportation and Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW) Prof. Dr. Cynthia Schneider
61st Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of the Netherlands  Dan Jørgensen
MEP, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety-
 Daniele Riggio
Information Officer for Central Asia, Public Diplomacy Division of NATO
 Prof. Dr. Davorin Kračun
Former Minister for Economic Relations and Development of Slovenia, Former Foreign Minister, Former Deputy Prime Minister Amb. Delia-Domingo Albert
Ambassador of the Philippines to Germany, Former Foreign Minister of the Philippines  Prof. Dr. Dipak R. Pant
Professor of Economics, Head of the Interdisciplinary Unit for Sustainable Economy at Carlo Cattaneo University Dominique Voynet
Former French Minister of Planning and Environment Amb. Elena Poptodorova
Director - Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria President Emil Constantinescu
Former President of Romania  Dr. Erhard Busek
Former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, Former Minister of Science & Research, Former Minister for Education & Cultural Affairs Dr. Erkki Tuomioja
Former Finnish Foreign Minister  Erna Hennicot Schoepges
MEP; Former Luxembourgian Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs Prof. Dr. Fadwa El Guindi
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Qatar University  François-Xavier de Donnea
Former Mayor of the City of Brussels, Former Defence Minister of Belgium Georgi Pirinski
Deputy Chairperson of the National Assembly and Former Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria, Former Foreign Minister Gerassimos D. Arsenis
Former Minister of Economics of Greece Dr. Gerlinde Niehus
Head Corporate Communications, NATO Prof. Dr. Gert Weisskirchen
Member of the German Parliament, Spokesperson of the Social-Democratic Parliamentary Working Group on Foreign Affairs  Prof. Dr. Géza Jeszenszky
Former Hungarian Foreign Minister, Former Ambassador to the United States Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper
Vice President for Olympic Education at the German Olympic Sports Confederation  Dr. Gunter Pleuger
Former German Ambassador to the United Nations  Prof. Dr. Hans Köchler
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, President of the International Progress Organization Hazel Henderson
Author and World-Renowned Columnist, Futurist, Consultant in SRI and Equitable Sustainable Human Development Heiner Flassbeck
Former State Minister in the German Ministry of Finance, Director - Division on Globalization and Development Strategies UNCTAD, Geneva Heino Von Meyer
Director, OECD Centre Berlin Prof. Dr. Helmut Haussmann
Former Minister of Economics of Germany, Professor of Business Management Prof. Dr. Henrik Enderlein
Associate Dean and Professor of Political Economy, Hertie School of Governance Minister Dr. Igor Lukšič
Minister of Education and Sport of Slovenia  Prof. Dr. Inge Kaul
Former Director of UNDP’s Office of Development Studies Minister Ints Dālderis
Minister of Culture of the Republic of Latvia  Dr. Ioannis Kasoulides
Former Foreign Minister of Cyprus  Ivaylo Kalfin
Former Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs  Jack McConnell
MSP; Former First Minister of Scotland  Dr. Jacques F. Poos
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Former Minister of Finance and of Foreign Affairs President Sir James Richard Marie Mancham
Former President of the Republic of Seychelles  Jan-Erik Enestam
Former Finnish Minister of the Environment and Defence Janez Janša
Former Prime Minister of Slovenia; President of the Slovenian Democratic Party Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Haynes
Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation, London Metropolitan University Dr. Jiří Weigl
Chancellor of the Office of the President of the Czech Republic Prof. Dr. Jo Ritzen
Former Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science; President of the University of Maastricht John Holden
Visiting Professor, City University London Associate and former Head of Culture, Demos  President Jorge Sampaio
Former President of Portugal Jytte Hilden
Former Minister of Culture of Denmark  Prof. Dr. Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor for the World Bank, Visiting Professor Georgetown University Kjell Magne Bondevik
Former Prime Minister of Norway Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Croatian Ambassador to the United Sates, Former Foreign Minister  Kristiina Ojuland
Former Foreign Minister of Estonia László Kovács
European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary.  Luc Van den Brande
Former Minister-President of Flanders Prof. Dr. Ludger Volmer
Former State Minister in the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Prof. Dr. Lufter Xhuveli
Former Albanian Minister of Environment, Forests and Water, Agriculture and Food Dr. Makase Nyaphisi
Embassador
of Lesotho to Germany Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Marcia Barrett
Lead Singer of Boney M Marina Pendes
Deputy Minister of Defense of Bosnia-Herzegovina  Mart Laar
Former Prime Minister of Estonia Martin Hope
Director Benelux and EU office at British Council Currently; Former Director British Council Moscow Meir Shlomo
Strategic Adviser, the Public Diplomacy Division of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Israel Merethe Stagetorn
Defense Lawyer for the Danish Supreme Court  Mike Kenneth Moore
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Former Director General of the World Trade Organization Dr. Miomir Žužul
Former Foreign Minister of Croatia  Mirko Tomassoni
Former Captain Regent of San Marino  Niamh Bhreathnach
Former Irish Minister for Education- Nick Williams
Head, Operations Section, Operations Division, NATO
 Niels Helveg Petersen
Former Minister for Economic Affairs of Denmark , Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Nouzha Skalli
Moroccan Minister of Social Development, Family, and Solidarity  Paul-Eerik Rummo
Former Estonian Minister of Culture and Education-
 Amb. Petko Draganov
Deputy Secretary General - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
 Amb. Philip D. Murphy
U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany Radmila Sekerinska
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia  Rainer Eppelmann
Civil Rights Activist. Former Minister for Demobilization and Defence Renate Künast
Former Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of Germany, Leader of the German Green Party Dr. Rick Van der Ploeg
Former Dutch State Minister of Education, Culture and Science; Professor of Economics, Oxford University-
Prof. Dr. Rizwan Saeed Sheikh
Director, Department of Cultural Affairs, Organization of the Islamic Conference's General Secretariat
 Prof. Dr. Rupert Scholz
Former Minister of Defense of Germany Samuel Jones
Head of Culture, Demos  Sartaj Aziz
Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Vice-Chancellor of Beaconhouse National University in Pakistan Scott M. Thomas
Senior Lecturer in International Relations and the Politics of Developing Countries, University of Bath, UK Ségolène Royal
President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council; Former Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party of France  Dr. Solomon Isaac Passy
Former Foreign Minister of Bulgaria and Former Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE Stefan Sofianski
Former Prime minister of Bulgaria, Former Mayor of Sofia Dr. Susan George
President of the Board of TNI and Honorary President of ATTAC-France Prof. Dr. Timo Goeschl
Professor and Chair of Environmental Economics, University of Heidelberg Tom Ferris
Senior Economics Consultant  Tomasz Sadzyński
Mayor of the City of Łódź President Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Former President of Latvia Dr. Vasile Puşcaş
Former Romanian Minister for European Affairs  Volker Hauff
Former German Minister for Research and Technology, Former German Minister of Transport Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Former Prime Minister of Poland; Former Foreign Minister of Poland H.E. Yasar Yakis
Former Foreign Minister of Turkey Dr. Yasser Thabet
Journalist and author; Program Editor at Al Arabiya News Channel; Former Senior Producer at Al Jazeera
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