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

MEP Nigel Farage Member of the European Parliament	The Hon. President Artur Mas i Gavarró Former President of Catalonia	President José Montilla Aguilera Former President of Catalonia
Antonio Caño Barranco Director, El País	The Hon. José Juan Díaz Trillo President; Spanish Parliament Climate Change Comission	Sen. Manuel Guillermo Altava Lavall Member of the Spanish Senate
Sen. Celia Cánovas Essard Member of the Spanish Senate	Sen. María del Mar del Pino Julios Reyes Member of the Spanish Senate	Sen. Laura Castel i Fort Member of the Spanish Senate
MP María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos Member of the Spanish Parliament	MP Miguel Iceta Llorens Secretary General, Catalan Socialist Party	Sen. José Ramón Bauzá Díaz Former President, Balearic Islands; Member of the Spanish Senate
Sen. Sara Vilà Galán Member of the Spanish Senate)	MP Ester Capella i Ferrer Member of the Spanish Parliament	MP Carlota Merchán Mesón Member of the Spanish Parliament
MP Carles Riera i Albert Member of the Catalan Parliament	Patrick Torrent Queralt Executive Director, Catalan Tourism Board	MP Raimundo Viejo Viñas Member Spanish Parliament; Former Councilor, The City of Barcelona
MP Ignacio Urquizu Sancho Member of the Spanish Parliament	MP Hannah Bardell Member of the British Parliament	MP Marta Ribas Frias Member of the Catalan Parliament
MP Pol Gibert Horcas Member of the Catalan Parliament	The Hon. Mladen Bosic Former president of Serb Democratic Party	Aureli Argemí i Roca President, CIEMEN
MP Sérgio Azevedo Vice President, PSD Parliamentary Group; Member of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic	MP Sergio Pascual Peña Member of the Spanish Parliament	Counsellor Minister Dmitry Sokolov Counsellor Minister, Embassy of Rusia in Spain
Prof. Augusto Soto Director, Dialogue with China Project; Professor, ESADE Business School	Councilor Alfred Bosch i Pascual Councilor, The City of Barcelona	Prof. Dr. Carles Castellanos Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Sergi Camara Photographer	Prof. Milagros Álvarez Verdugo Professor, Universitat de Barcelona	Javier Ideami Multidisciplinary Artist; Founder, Ideami Studios
MdB Andrej Hunko Member of the German Parliament	Councilor Raimond Blasi i Navarro Councillor, The City of Barcelona	Councilor Antoni Castellà i Clavé Councillor, The City of Barcelona
Albert Diaz-Guilera Professor, Physics at Universitat de Barcelona	Montse Guardia Digital Challenge Director, Banc Sabadell	Jordi Tolra I Malboni Barcelona City Hall, Director of the Social Inclusion Plan of Barcelona 2012-2015

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

MEP Nigel Farage Member of the European Parliament	The Hon. President Artur Mas i Gavarró Former President of Catalonia	President José Montilla Aguilera Former President of Catalonia
Antonio Caño Barranco Director, El País	The Hon. José Juan Díaz Trillo President; Spanish Parliament Climate Change Comission	Sen. Manuel Guillermo Altava Lavall Member of the Spanish Senate
Sen. Celia Cánovas Essard Member of the Spanish Senate	Sen. María del Mar del Pino Julios Reyes Member of the Spanish Senate	Sen. Laura Castel i Fort Member of the Spanish Senate
MP María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos Member of the Spanish Parliament	MP Miguel Iceta Llorens Secretary General, Catalan Socialist Party	Sen. José Ramón Bauzá Díaz Former President, Balearic Islands; Member of the Spanish Senate
Sen. Sara Vilà Galán Member of the Spanish Senate)	MP Ester Capella i Ferrer Member of the Spanish Parliament	MP Carlota Merchán Mesón Member of the Spanish Parliament
MP Carles Riera i Albert Member of the Catalan Parliament	Patrick Torrent Queralt Executive Director, Catalan Tourism Board	MP Raimundo Viejo Viñas Member Spanish Parliament; Former Councilor, The City of Barcelona
MP Ignacio Urquizu Sancho Member of the Spanish Parliament	MP Hannah Bardell Member of the British Parliament	MP Marta Ribas Frias Member of the Catalan Parliament
MP Pol Gibert Horcas Member of the Catalan Parliament	The Hon. Mladen Bosic Former president of Serb Democratic Party	Aureli Argemí i Roca President, CIEMEN
MP Sérgio Azevedo Vice President, PSD Parliamentary Group; Member of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic	MP Sergio Pascual Peña Member of the Spanish Parliament	Counsellor Minister Dmitry Sokolov Counsellor Minister, Embassy of Rusia in Spain
Prof. Augusto Soto Director, Dialogue with China Project; Professor, ESADE Business School	Councilor Alfred Bosch i Pascual Councilor, The City of Barcelona	Prof. Dr. Carles Castellanos Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Sergi Camara Photographer	Prof. Milagros Álvarez Verdugo Professor, Universitat de Barcelona	Javier Ideami Multidisciplinary Artist; Founder, Ideami Studios
MdB Andrej Hunko Member of the German Parliament	Councilor Raimond Blasi i Navarro Councillor, The City of Barcelona	Councilor Antoni Castellà i Clavé Councillor, The City of Barcelona
Albert Diaz-Guilera Professor, Physics at Universitat de Barcelona	Montse Guardia Digital Challenge Director, Banc Sabadell	Jordi Tolra I Malboni Barcelona City Hall, Director of the Social Inclusion Plan of Barcelona 2012-2015

Improving the Interfaith and Inter-Civilizational Dialogue to Cooperation

International Conference; Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin

Berlin November 19th, 2018

International Participants

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
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 Qurbanli

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

Cross Continental Cooperation Summit 2018

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