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:

• Amb. Akbar Ahmed
  Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies & Professor, School of International Service, American University
• Amb. András Simonyi
  Managing Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University; Former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States
• H.E. Amb. Dr. Božo Cerar
  Ambassador of Slovenia to the United States
• Prof. Dr. Charles F. Doran
  Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations; Director of the Global Theory and History Program; Director of the Center for Canadian Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
• Prof. Dr. Claes G. Ryn
  Professor of Politics, the Catholic University of America
• H. E. Amb. Claudio Bisogniero
  Ambassador of Italy to the United States
• Amb. Dr. Cynthia Schneider
  Director of Projects, ICD Academy for CD; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands
• Dick Henry
  President, The Streit Council
• Prof. Dr. Dorle Hellmuth
  Assistant Professor of Politics, the Catholic University of America
• H. E. Amb. Elena Poptodorova
  Ambassador of Bulgaria to the USA
• H. E. Amb. Elin Suleymanov
  Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States
• President Franco Frattini
  President of the ICD Organization for Youth Education & Development Former Foreign Minister of Italy; Former European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom & Security
• Prof. Dr. Getachew Metaferia
  Professor of Political Science, Morgan State University
• Imam Talib Shareef
  President & Imam, the Mosque Masjid Muhammad, Inc
• Prof. Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan 
  Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor, Negotiation and Conflict Management Program, Global Affairs and Human Security Program, School of Public and International Affairs, College of Public Affairs, University of Baltimore
• Prof. Dr. James Stocker
  Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Trinity Washington University
• Jaroslav Zajicek
  Chargé d´Affairs, Embassy of the Czech Republic to the United States
• Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon
  Director, Center for Culture and Security, Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.
• Prof. Dr. Karl P. Donfried
  Director of Programs, ICD Academy; Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emeritus of Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College USA
• Kenneth R. Weinstein 
  President and Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute
• Dr. Marilyn Sephocle
  Founder and President, the Women Ambassadors Foundation
• Mark Hyatt
  President, Character Education Partnership
• Rolandas Kačinskas   
  Minister Plenipotentiary, the Embassy Lithuania to the United States
• Dr. Tom Palmer
  Senior Fellow, CATO Institute & Director of Cato University
• Prof. Dr. Sammye M. Miller    
  Chairman, Department of History & Government, Bowie State University