Cross Continental Cooperation Summit 2018

"Unlocking Potential: Uniting the World's Leading Powers to Promote Sustainable Economies, Global Human Rights and World Peace"

(Berlin, Washington D.C., NYC, London, Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, Addis Ababa, Munich; January - December 2018)

Cross Continental Cooperation Summit 2018 - Speakers

Berlin Economic Forum 2018

"Sustainable Business & Responsible Investments"
(International Conference, Berlin; March 6th - 11th, 2018) Held Parallel to the Berlin Tourism Fair ITB

The Hon. Gordon Brown Former Prime Minister of the UK	The Hon. Irina Bokova Former Director-General of UNESCO	The Hon. Brian Cowen Former Prime Minister of Ireland
The Hon. Matti Vanhanen Former Prime Minister of Finland	The Hon. Aleqa Hammond Former Prime Minister of Greenland	President John Agyekum Kufuor Former President of Ghana
President Rosen Plevneliev Former President of Bulgaria	SG Béatrice Wertli Secretary General of the CVP Switzerland Party	Chief Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
The Hon. Mmantsetsa Marope Director, International Bureau of Education, UNESCO	The Hon. Erna Hennicot Schoepges Former Speaker of the Parliament of Luxembourg	Minister Nikolina Angelkova Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria
The Hon. Nika Gilauri Former Prime Minister of Georgia	President Valdis Zatlers Former President of Latvia	The Hon. Zlatko Lagumdzija Former Prime Minister of B&H
The Hon. Hrant Bagratyan Former Prime Minister of Armenia	Minister Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrizi Minister of Tourism of the Sultanate of Oman	The Hon. Hamat Bah Minister of Tourism of Gambia
The Hon. Rui Duarte Barros Former Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau	Mr. Gaorekwe Gaorekwe Director - Brand Botswana (National Portfolio)	Mr. Moemedi Mokgosi Executive Director, Brand Botswana
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Mazid Former Chairman, Chittagong Stock Exchange	Mr. Nondas Cl. Metaxas Former CEO, Cyprus Stock Exchange	Mr. Ivan Takev Executive Director of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange
Mr. Moremi Marwa Chief Executive Officer, Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, Tanzania	Hon. Staffan Nilsson Former President of the EU Economic and Social Committee	Mr. Milan Božić, CEO Banja Luka Stock Exchange

The African Development Forum 2018

"Sustainable Economies & Responsible Investments"
(Berlin; March 6th - 9th, 2018) - Held Parallel to the Berlin Tourism Fair ITB

The Hon. Gordon Brown Former Prime Minister of the UK	The Hon. Irina Bokova Former Director-General of UNESCO	The Hon. Brian Cowen Former Prime Minister of Ireland
The Hon. Matti Vanhanen Former Prime Minister of Finland	The Hon. Aleqa Hammond Former Prime Minister of Greenland	President John Agyekum Kufuor Former President of Ghana
President Rosen Plevneliev Former President of Bulgaria	SG Béatrice Wertli Secretary General of the CVP Switzerland Party	Chief Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
The Hon. Mmantsetsa Marope Director, International Bureau of Education, UNESCO	The Hon. Erna Hennicot Schoepges Former Speaker of the Parliament of Luxembourg	Minister Nikolina Angelkova Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria
The Hon. Nika Gilauri Former Prime Minister of Georgia	President Valdis Zatlers Former President of Latvia	The Hon. Zlatko Lagumdzija Former Prime Minister of B&H
The Hon. Hrant Bagratyan Former Prime Minister of Armenia	Minister Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrizi Minister of Tourism of the Sultanate of Oman	The Hon. Hamat Bah Minister of Tourism of Gambia
The Hon. Rui Duarte Barros Former Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau	Mr. Gaorekwe Gaorekwe Director - Brand Botswana (National Portfolio)	Mr. Moemedi Mokgosi Executive Director, Brand Botswana
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Mazid Former Chairman, Chittagong Stock Exchange	Mr. Nondas Cl. Metaxas Former CEO, Cyprus Stock Exchange	Mr. Ivan Takev Executive Director of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange
Mr. Moremi Marwa Chief Executive Officer, Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, Tanzania	Hon. Staffan Nilsson Former President of the EU Economic and Social Committee	Mr. Milan Božić, CEO Banja Luka Stock Exchange

Improving the Interfaith and Inter-Civilizational Dialogue to Cooperation

International Conference; Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
Berlin November 19th, 2018

International Speakers

Abdulaziz Altwaijri General Director of ISESCO Morocco / Saudi Arabia	His Beatitude Theodoros II Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria Greece/ Egypt	Halit Eren Director General of IRCICA (Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture) Turkey
Fahad Abualnasr Director General of KAICIID (International Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue Centre Saudi Arabia	Rabbi Marc Schneier President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, USA USA	Abdullah AlMatouq Special Adviser of the SG of UN, Chairman of the International Islamic Charity Organization Kuwait
President Moncef Marzouki Former President of Tunisia Tunesia	Selim Argun Deputy Head of the Presidency of Religious Affairs Turkey	Swami Jyothirmayah (Joshy Chungath) Founder of the “Art of living” International NGO (special representative of Shri Shri Shankar) India / Germany
Usamah El Abed Chairperson of the Parliament Committee for the Religious Affairs Egypt	Mohammad Sammak Member of BoD of KAICIID Lebanon	Khaled Akasheh Head of Department of Dialogue with Islam in the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue Vatican
Emmanuel Sfiatkos Very Reverend Archimandrite of the Ecumenic Throne, Representative of the Orthodox Bishops Conference in Germany at the seat of the German Federal Government and the Federal Parliament Greece/ Germany	Albir Krqanov Mufti of Moscow, Head of the Spiritual Council of the Muslims of Russia Russia	Archimandrite Philaret (Aleksander Bulekov) Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Special Representative of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Russia
Malek Bou Tanous Superior General Father of the Lebanese missionaries, High Representative of His Beatitude Mor Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, Cardinal-Patriarch of Antioch, Primate of the Maronite Church Lebanon	Farhan Nizami Director of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies UK	Metropolitan Gerasim (Sherashenidze) The Special Envoy of the Patriarch-Catholicos Iliya II of All Georgia Georgia
Serdar Chelebi President of the European-Turkish Muslim Union Turkey / Germany	Bishop Volodymyr Kotsaba Special Representative of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine	Aziz Hasanovich The Grand Mufti of Croatia Croatia
Shafik Pshikhachev Special Representative of Caucasus Muslims` Board in Russia Russia	Bishop Seraphim (Aliaksei Belanojka) Representative of Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus Belorussia	Rifat Fejzich The Grand Mufti of Montenegro Montenegro
Bunyamin Chil Special Representative of Caucasus Muslims` Board in Turkey Turkey

Speakers from Germany

Markus Grübel Member of the German Parliament and Commissioner for Global Freedom of Religion	Hans-Eberhard Schleyer Chair of German-Azerbaijani Forum, Former State Minister	Nikolas Löbel Member of the German Parliament, CDU/CSU Rapporteur on Eastern Partnership
Mark C. Donfried General Director of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy	Otto Hauser Honorary Consul of Azerbaijan in Stuttgart; Former German Government Spokesperson and State Secretary	Ravvin Yitzhak Ehrenberg Orthodox Rabbi of Berlin, Jewish Community of Berlin
Aiman Mazyek Chairman of the German Committee of Muslims	Klaus Rith Head of Department of the Protestant Eparchy Stuttgart	Thomas Schirrmacher Executive Chair of the World Evangelical Alliance WEA

Members of Azerbaijan Delegation

Sheikh-ul-islam Allahshukur Pashazade Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board, Secretary General of Baku International Centre of Interfaith and Inter-Civilizational Cooperation (BCIC), Head of the Delegation	Mubariz Qurbanl Chairman of the State Committee for the Work with Religious Assosiations	Etibar Najafov Head of Department of Interethnic Relations, Multiculturalism and Religious Issues of the President Administration
Salman Musayev Mufti, the First deputy chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board	Aleksandr Ischein Archibishop, Head of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church	Milikh Yevdayev Head of the Mountain Jews Faith Community in Azerbaijan
Vladimir Fekete Bishop, Head of the Christian Catholic Community in Azerbaijan	Khalaf Khalafov Deputy Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan

The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2018

"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Foster Democracy, Advance International Law and Back Global Human Rights"
Berlin; December 13th - 16th, 2018

Brian Cowen Former Prime Minister of Ireland	Klaus Wowereit Former Mayor of Berlin	Hakima El Haite President, Liberal International
Artur Mas i Gavarró Former President of Catalonia	Elsa Artadi i Vila Minister of the Presidency, Catalonia	José Montilla Aguilera Former President of Catalonia
João Caupers Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal	Fadi El Abdallah Spoke Person of the International Criminal Court of the UN	Boris Velchev President of the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria
Yuriy Baulin Former Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine	Helgi Magnús Gunnarsson Director of Public Prosecution, Iceland	Guðmundur Eiríksson Former Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Judge Xhezair Zaganjori Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Albania	Dirk Niebel Former Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany	Supachai Panitchpakdi Former Director General of the World Trade Organization
Antoni Comín Oliveres Member of the Ctalan Parliament in Exile	José Ramón Bauzá Díaz Former President of the Balearic Islands	Josep Cuní Celebrated Catalan Journalist
Marie Kapretz Representative of the Catalan Government in Germany	Mònica Terribas Celebrated Spanish Journalist	Elisenda Alamany Gutiérrez Member of the Catalan Parliament
Martí Adroher Catalan Investment Expert	Laura Castel Fort Member of the Spanish Senate	Rafel Bruguera Batalla Member of the Catalan Parliament
Karamba Diaby Member of the German Parliament	Margit Stumpp Member of the German Parliament	Joaquin Salvi Mas Rector of the University of Girona
Anton Friesen Member of the German Parliament	Peter Boehringer Member of the German Parliament	Petr Bystron Mmber of the German Parliament
Valdis Zatlers Former President of Latvia	Ali A. Jalali Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan	Erato Kozakou- Marcoullis Former Foreign Minister of Cyprus
Pär Stenbäck Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland	Mary Miller General and Artistic Director, Bergen National Opera	Ove Joanson Former Chairman of the Swedish Public Broadcasting Trust
Ögmundur Jónasson Former Minister of Justice of Iceland	Steve Austen Celebrated International Entrepreneur	Elena Poptodorova Former Ambassador of Bulgaria to the USA
Nouzha Skalli Former Moroccan Minister of Social Development, Family, and Solidarity	Hrant Bagratyan Former Prime Minister of Armenia