The Washington D.C. Summit on Cross Continental Cooperation
"Future Prospects in International and Intercultural Relations to Enhancing Cross & Trans Continental Cooperation"

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
