Summit Overview

The Cross-Continental Cooperation Summit of 2013-4 will be a culmination of 10 events taking place across the globe. The events will take place in major capital cities including Berlin, Washington D.C., Jerusalem, Ramallah, Addis Ababa, and Helsinki, with the continents of Europe, North America, Africa and Asia playing host to the events. The Summit will focus on the potential success for improved intercultural relations in uniting the great powers of the contemporary world to better face today's global concerns.

The Summit will create a forum for the world's superpowers representatives to publicly discuss and promote upon a common goal, thus initiating potential solutions for contemporary and future world challenges while keeping individual interests at heart. The ultimate aim of the Summit will be to create a more stable public global environment by promoting intercultural dialogue between nations, consequently bringing the international community closer to a more prosperous future.

Participation in the Summit »

Participation in the Summit events are open to applicants coming from the governmental and diplomatic fields, academia & scholars, representatives from the civil society and private sector, journalists, artists, young professionals and students. Participation in the Beijing and Moscow events are by invitation only.

If you would like to reserve a position and participate in the summit, please click on the link below and fill out the online application form:

Summit Speakers & Delegates

Speakers & Delegates during the conferences will 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

Speakers & Delegates for the Summit include:

President Francesco Rutelli Former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy	Hon. Michèle Alliot-Marie Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France	President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga President of the Club of Madrid
The Hon. Jadranka Kosor Former Prime Minister of Croatia	The Hon. Mari Kiviniemi Former Prime Minister of Finland	Hon. Mirko Cvetković Former Prime Minister of Serbia
President Jorge Pizarro President of the Senate of Chile	Hon. Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi Former Director General of the WTO	Hon. Staffan Nilsson Former President of the EU European Economic & Social Committee
Amb. Katalin Bogyay President of UNESCO's General Conference 2011-3	Hon. Winston Peters Former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand	Anna Diamantopoulou Former EU Commissioner for Employment & Social Affairs
The Hon. Halldór Ásgrímsson Former Prime Minister of Iceland	Master Jun Hong Lu World Renowned Chinese Spiritual Leader	The Hon. Bertie Ahern Former Prime Minister of Ireland
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin Former French Minister of Health, Youth Sports	Dame Tessa Jowell Former UK Minister for the Olympics	Prof. Dr. Sibrand Poppema President, University of Groningen
President Valdis Zatlers Former President of Latvia	President Emil Constantinescu Former President of Romania	President Ugo Mifsud Bonnici Former President of Malta
Prof. Dr. Murat Tuncer President of the Hacettepe University	President Petru Lucinschi Former President of Republic of Moldova	President Arnold Rüütel Former President of Estonia
Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach Rector, University of Luxembourg	Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro Former President of Cape Verde	Prof. Dr. Ivan Ilchev Rector, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Beate Finckh Celebrated German Actress	Albert Fortell Celebrated Austrian Actor	Minister Jean-Paul Adam Foreign Minister of the Republic of Seychelles
Hon. Simon Crean Former Australian Minister for Regional Development	Dr. Vladimir Filippov Rector, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia	The Hon. Jan Figel Vice President of the National Council of Slovakia