The Berlin International Economics Congress
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roles of Global Politics & Civil Society in International Economics
(Berlin; February 4th - 7th, 2010)
Congress Speakers
Bendt Bendtsen
Former Danish Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, Former Deputy Prime Minister
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
Head of the department of Energy, Transportation and Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW)
Dan Jørgensen
MEP, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Davorin Kračun
Former Minister for Economic Relations and Development of Slovenia, Former Foreign Minister, Former Deputy Prime Minister
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
Dr. Erhard Busek
Former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, Former Minister of Science & Research, Former Minister for Education & Cultural Affairs
Erna Hennicot Schoepges
MEP; Former Luxembourgian Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs
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
Prof. Dr. Géza Jeszenszky
Former Hungarian Foreign Minister, Former Ambassador to the United States
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
Prof. Dr. Inge Kaul
Former Director of UNDP’s Office of Development Studies
Dr. Jacques F. Poos
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Former Minister of Finance and of Foreign Affairs
Jan-Erik Enestam
Former Finnish Minister of the Environment and Defence
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor for the World Bank, Visiting Professor Georgetown University
Kristiina Ojuland
Former Foreign Minister of Estonia
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
Niels Helveg Petersen
Former Minister for Economic Affairs of Denmark , Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
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. Rupert Scholz
Former Minister of Defense of Germany
Solomon Isaac Passy
Former Foreign Minister of Bulgaria and Former Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE
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
Dr. Vasile Puşcaş
Former Romanian Minister for European Affairs
Volker Hauff
Former German Minister for Research and Technology, Former German Minister of Transport
