Cross Continental Cooperation Summit 2013-2014
"Unlocking Potential: Uniting the World's Leading Powers"
(Berlin, Washington, D.C., Sofia, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Addis Ababa, Helsinki; September 2013 - March 2014)
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
- 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
- Hon. Ahmad Abbas
Director General of Ministry of Planning and Administration of the Palestinian Authority - Amb. Alan Baker
Director, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - Prof. Dr. Alfred Tovias
Walter Rathenau Professor in European Economics; Chairman of the Department of International Relations; Jean Monnet Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - H. E. Amb. Andreea Pastarnac
Ambassador of Romania to Israel - MK Dalia Itzik
Member of the Israeli Knesset - H. E. Amb. Dr. Dimitar Mihaylov
Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to Israel - MK Eli Yishai
Member of the Israeli Knesset; Former Deputy Prime Minister - Governor Gershon Mesika
Governor of Samaria Council - Dr. Joel Peters
Professor, Government and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs, VirginiaTech University - Amb. Dr. Jonathan Spyer
Senior Research Fellow, Global Research in International Affairs Center; Former Israeli Ambassador - Dr. Laurence Weinbaum
Chief Editor, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs - Masalha Azmi
Palestinian Advocate & Notary - Amb. Mordechai Arbell
Former Israeli Ambassador - Amb. Moshe Arad
Former Israeli Ambassador - MK Nissim Zeev
Member of the Israeli Knesset - Amb. Oded Ben-Hur
Senior Diplomatic Advisor to the Knesset - Mr. Shay Attias
Chief Executive Officer, Council for Public Diplomacy - ShemTov Menachem
Program Facilitaror, United Nations Development Program Israel - MK Dr. Shimon Ohayon
Member of the Israeli Knesset - Prof. Dr. Shlomo Avineri
Professor, Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Yehuda Cohen
CEO, Lipski Installation & Sanitation Products - Yvette Schumacher
Associate, Israel Council on Foreign Relations - Amb. Dr. Yosef Govrin
Former Ambassador of Israel - The Hon. Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
Speaker of the Israeli Knesset
- Dr. Ahmet Hadi Adanalı
Advisor of Prime Minister of Turkey for Dialogue among Civilizations - Albert Fortell
Celebrated Austrian Actor - Prof. Dr. Álvaro Escribano Saéz
Vice Rector, Universidad Carlos II de, Madrid - The Hon. Anna Diamantopoulou
Former European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities; Former Greek Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs - President Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro
Former President of Cape Verde - Prof. Dr. Aquien Pascal
Vice President, The scientific Council, Université Paris 4 Sorbonne - President Arnold Rüütel
Former President of Estonia - Prof. Dr. Athanasios D. Koustelios
Vice-Rector, University of Thessaly, Greece - H.E Amb. Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu
Ambassador of Republic Turkey to Germany - Beate Finckh
Celebrated German Actress - The Hon. Bertie Ahern
President of the ICD Program on the Transatlantic Relations; Former Prime Minister of Ireland - Bill Summers
ICD Advisory Board Member; Celebrated American Musician - Prof. Dr. Bulyzhenkov Igor Edmundovich
Rectorate Councellor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Csaba Sándor Tabajdi (MEP)
ICD Advisory Board Member; Member of the European Parliament - The Hon. Cyril Svoboda
President, Diplomatic Academy of Prague; Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic; Former Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic - The Hon. Dame Tessa Jowell
Former UK Minister for the Olympics - Prof. Dr. Dragan Domazet
Rector, Belgrade Metropolitan University; Former Minister of Science of the Republic of Serbia - The Hon. Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former Vice Prime-Minister, State Minister of Georgia for Reintegration; Former Foreign Minister - President Dr. Emil Constantinescu
President of the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy; Former President of Romania; Former Rector, University of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Enver Halilovic
Rector, University of Tuzla - The Hon. Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus - The Hon. Dr. Erhard Busek
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former Vice-Chancellor of Austria; Former Minister of Education - The Hon. Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
Vice President of the ICD Advisory Board; Former Speaker of the Parliament of Luxemburg; Former Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs - Prof. Dr. Euripides G. Stephanou
Rector, University Of Crete - The Hon. Dr. Francesco Profumo
Former Minister of Education of Italy; Former Chancellor of the Polytechnic University of Turin - The Hon. Francesco Rutelli
Honorary President of the ICD; Former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy; Former Minister of Culture and Tourism; Former Mayor of Rome - The Hon. Gigi Tevzadze
Rector, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia - Dr. Günter Seufert
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - Prof. Dr. Gwenaele Proutière-Maulion
Vice President, European Affairs and International Relations, Université de Nantes - The Hon. Halldór Ásgrímsson
Vice President of the ICD; Former Prime Minister of Iceland; Former Secretary General for the Nordic Council of Ministers - Amb. Dr. Heinrich Kreft,
Director for international Education and Dialogue among Civilizations, German Foreign Ministry - The Hon. Hrant Bagratyan
Former Prime Minister of Armenia - H. E. Amb. Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu
Ambassador of Republic Turkey to Germany - Prof. Dr. Ioannis A. Mylopoulos
Rector, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Prof. Dr. Ivan Ilchev
Rector, Sofia University, Bulgaria - The Hon. Jadranka Kosor
Former Prime Minister of Croatia - The Hon. Jan Figel
Vice-President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Former European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth - Prof. Dr. Javier Casalí
Vice-president of International Relations and Cooperation, Public University of Navarre - Minister Jean Paul Adam
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Seychelles - Prof. Dr. John Chi-Kin Lee
Vice President, Hong Kong Institute of Education - Hon. Jorge Pizarro
President of the Senate of the Republic of Chile - Rear Admiral Dr. Joyce M. Johnson
ICD Advisory Board Member; Rear Admiral (Ret.) U.S. Public Health Service - Master Jun Hong Lu
World Renowned Chinese Spiritual Leader - H. E. Amb. Katalin Bogyay
Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO; President of the General Conference of UNESCO (2011-13) - Dr. Khaldoon Aba Hussain
Chief Executive Officer, Isa Cultural Centre, Bahrain - Liviu Jicman
Vice President of the Romanian Cultural Institute - Lorenzo Fontana (MEP)
Member of the EU Parliament - Prof. Dr. Ľudomír Šlahor
Vice Rector for International Relations, Comenius University, Bratislava - The Hon. Luc van den Brande
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former Minister-President of Flanders-Belgium; Former President, European Committee of the Regions - Marcia Barrett
ICD Advisory Board Member; Lead Singer of Boney M - The Hon. Mari Kiviniemi
Former Prime Minister of Finland - Prof. Dr. Mehmet Aydın
Former Minister of State of Turkey; Former Member of Parliament - Prof. Dr. Michael Lederer
Executive Vice President - International Affairs & Executive Education, Furtwangen University - The Hon. Michèle Alliot-Marie
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France; Former Minister of Justice; Former Minister of the Interior - Prof. Dr. Mircea Dumitru
Rector, University of Bucharest - The Hon. Mirko Cvetkovic
Former Prime Minister of Serbia - Prof. Dr. Murat Tuncer
President, Hacettepe University, Turkey - The Hon. Nouzha Skalli
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former Moroccan Minister of Social Development, Family, and Solidarity - The Hon. Ögmundur Jónasson
President of the ICD Program for Human Rights; Former Minister of the Interior of Iceland; Former Minister of Justice & Human Rights - Ojars Eriks Kalnins (MP)
Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Latvia - Prof. Dr. Patrick Quinn
Provost, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy - Prof. Dr. Paul De Knop
Rector, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Prof. Dr. Pedro Nonell
Director, EENI Global Business School, Spain - President Petru Lucinschi
Former President of Republic of Moldova - Ribal Al Assad
Founder & Chairman, The IMAN Foundation - Prof. Dr. Rolf Tarrach
Rector, University of Luxembourg - Prof. Dr. Romulus Brancoveanu
Dean, Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest - The Hon. Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin
Former Minister of the Environment of France; Former Minister of Social Affairs - The Hon. Rubén Arosemena Valdés
Former Second Vice President of Panama - Prof. Dr. Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
President, IE University, Spain - Prof. Dr. S. Sibrand Poppema
President, University of Groningen - The Hon. Simon Crean
Former Australian Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government; Former Minister of Trade; - Prof. Dr. Soodursun Jugessur
Chancellor & Chairman, University of Mauritius - The Hon. Staffan Nilsson
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) - The Hon. Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
ICD Advisory Board Member; Former Director General of the World Trade Organization; Former Secretary-General of the UNCTAD - The Hon. Tsiaras Konstantinos (MP)
Member of Parliament Karditsa; Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece - President Ugo Mifsud Bonnici
Former President of Malta - Minister Urmas Paet
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia - President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Former President of Latvia - President Valdis Zatlers
Former President of Latvia - Prof. Dr. Vlad Nistor
President of the Senate of the University of Bucharest - The Hon. Dr. Vladimir Filippov
Rector, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; Former Minister of Education of Russian - Prof. Dr. Wahid Omar
President / Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - The Hon. Winston Peters
Former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Amb. Ababi Demissie
Acting Director General for Public Diplomacy and Communications at the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Abiy Berhane
Director, Promotion and Cultural Exchange, Public Diplomacy Directorate General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - H.E. Aikor Timothy Shirgba
Senior special Assistant to the Governor of Benue State on millennium Development Goals - Baiba Dhidha Mjidho
Representative of INISE - International Network for Innovative Social Entrepreneurship - Prof. Dr. Costantinos Berhuétesfa Costantinos
Chair, Ethiopica Infrastructure & Tunneling Co. & AAI Capital, Professor of Public Policy, School of Graduate Studies, Addis Ababa University - President Emil Constantinescu
President, the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy; Former President of Romania - Ewa Sadowska
Representatives of INISE - International Network for Innovative Social Entrepreneurship - Fantahun Assefa
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Sub regional Office for Eastern Africa - Prof. Dr. Fekadu Tolossa
Lecturer, Governance and Development Studies Department, Jimma University - Prof. Dr. Genemo Berisa Uka
Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Jigjiga University - Prof. Dr. Getahun Kassa
Lecturer and PhD Program Coordinator, Center for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University - Haimanot Aregahegn Aschale
Head, Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension in Debre Markos University; Author - Hiruy Wubie Gebreegziabher
Director of the Legal Aid Center, University of Gondar - Irmtraut Hubatsch
Director, Goethe Institute Addis Ababa - Prof. Dr. Kelali Kiros Negesse
Dean, School of Law, University of Gondar; Chairperson, Ethiopian Law Schools' Consortium; Lecturer of Laws - Magdalena Chwarscianek
Representative of INISE - International Network for Innovative Social Entrepreneurship - Mark C. Donfried
Director General & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy - Mesfin Lemma
Specialist, UNICEF Ethiopia - Dr. Raphael Ogar Oko
International Coordinator, Global Educators for All Initiative and Coordinator, Millennium Development Ambassadors - H.E. Dr. Sarah Jibril
Special Adviser to the president of Nigeria on Ethics and Values - Prof. Seifudein Adem
Associate Director, the Institute of Global Cultural Studies & Associate Research Professor of Political Science at SUNY-Binghamton - Tsion Teklu Maru
Supervisory Consular Specialist at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Ethiopia - Dr. Yagoub Ali Gangi
Associate Professor of Economics, Ahmed Bin Mohamed Military College, Doha, Qatar - Mr. Yosef Kassaye
Director, International Organizations, Directorate General of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
