Summit Speakers & Delegates

Speakers & Delegates during the conferences include among others heads of state & leading politicians, senior diplomats, leading governmental officials, senior academics, renowned authors, journalists, and celebrated artists. These speakers will include a large number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board, please click here.

The following are among the speakers for the summit:

• President Emil Constantinescu
  President of the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy; Former President of Romania
• The Hon. Dr. Francesco Profumo
  Former Minister of Education of Italy; Former Chancellor of the Polytechnic University of Turin
• President Franco Frattini
  President of the ICD Organization for Youth Education & Development; Former Foreign Minister of Italy
• Helga Daub,
  Former Member of the German Parliament
• Mark Donfried
  Director and Founder, the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
• The Hon. Masaharu Nakagawa
  Former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
• The Hon. Dr. Mykola Zhulynsky
  Chairman, State Committee on Intellectual Property, Government of Ukraine
• The Hon. Dr. Nazar al Baharna,
  Secretary General of the ICD Center for Conflict Zones Mediation; ; Former Foreign Minister of Bahrain
• The Hon. Simon Crean,
  Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government; Former Minister for the Arts; Former Minister for Education
• H. E. Amb. Takeshi Nakane,
  Ambassador of Japan to Germany
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brückner
  Academic Director, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - CCDS