Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the Levant
"Levant, Cradle of Cultural Diplomacy: Rediscovering the Mediterranean"
Symposium Speakers
We are privileged to include as speakers many distinguished experts from the fields of international politics, international law, diplomacy, human rights and civil society; The ICD is grateful for their contributions to this important event.The following are among the speakers for the Symposium:
- Prof. Dr. Adrian Curaj
General Director of the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding - Dr. Adrian Silvan Ionescu
Director of the „G. Oprescu” Institute of Art History - Dr. Adrian Dumitru
Research Assistant, Metropolitan Library of Bucharest - Dr. Akkan Suver
President of Marmara Group Foundation - Dr. Alexandru Todericiu
- H.E. Prof. Dr. Andrei Marga
Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute - H. E. Crin Antonescu
President of the Romanian Senate - Prof. Dr. Augustin Ioan
Professor,”Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Bianca Valota
Professor Emeritus Università degli StudidiMilano - Dr. Corina Iosif
Cercetător Academia Română filiala Cluj - Dr. Dan Tudor Ionescu
- Dan A. Petre
Director of the Romanian Diplomatic Institute - Minister Dr. Daniel Barbu
Minister of Culture of Romania - Prof. Dr. Ecaterina Lung
Professor, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest - The Hon. Dr. Emil Constantinescu,
President of Romania 1996-2000; President of the Academy of Cultural Diplomacy Berlin - Prof. Dr. Fotini Pomoni Papaioannou
National Capodistrian University, Athens - Dr. Gabriel Leanca
Lecturer Faculty of History, Al. Ioan Cuza University, Iasi - Dr. Garry Jacobs
Chairman of the Board and CEO, World Academy of Art and Science - Prof. Dr. George Grigore
Arabic Department Coordinator Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest - Dr. Gheorghe Duca
President of Academy of Sciences of Moldova - Dr. Ioana Feodorov
Institute for Southeastern European Studies of the Romanian Academy - Dr. Ionel Haiduc
President of the Romanian Academy - Prof. Dr. Ivo Slaus
President of the World Academy of Art and Science - H. E. Amb. Katalin Bogyay
President of the General Conference of UNESCO - Prof. Dr. Kishore Chakraborty
Director of Research Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies, Berlin - Prof. Dr. Kopi Kycyku
- Dr. Lia Brad Chisacof
Researcher, Institute for the South-East European Studies Romanian Academy - Prof. Dr. Liviu Papadima
Prorector of University of Bucharest - The Hon. Dr. Ljubisha Georgievski
Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia 2006-2008 - Mădălina Vârtejeanu-Joubert
Conf. Univ. Professor, INALCO Paris - HRH Crown Princess Margareta of Romania
Crown Princess of Romania - Mark Donfried
Director and Founder of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin - Acad. Marius Sala
Vice-president of the Romanian Academy, Director of the „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics - Martin Hauser
Director of UNESCO Department, University of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Michael Metzeltin
Institute of Romance Studies, Vienna University - Prof. Dr. Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu
Professor, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Mihaela Grancea
Professor, Sibiu University - Prof. Dr. Mircea Dumitru
Rector of Bucharest University - Prof. Mohamed Abdelhady Mohamed Ahmed
Professor, Faculty of Archeology, University of Cairo - Acad. Momir Djurovic
President of the Academy of Science and Art - Prof. Naim Afgan
Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Sarajevo - Prof. Dr. Nicolae Şerban Tanaşoca
Director of the Institute for Southeastern European Studies of the Romanian Academy - MK Rabbi Nissim Zeev
Member of the Israeli Knesset; Co-Chair of the Inter parliamentary for Global Ethics - The Hon. Dr. Petar Stoyanov
President of Bulgaria 1997 - 2002 - The Hon. Dr. Petru Lucinschi
President of Moldova 1997-2001 - Minister Dr. Remus Pricopie
Minister of National Education of Romania - The Hon. Dr. Rexhep Meidani
President of Albania 1997-2002 - Prof. Dr. Ruben Safrastyan
Corresponding Member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Yerevan - Conf. Dr. Ruxandra Ivan
- Shoshana Bekerman
Director, Israeli Knesset Caucus for Judaism and Global Ethics - H.E. Prof. Dr. Sorin Oprescu
General Mayor of the Municipality of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Tasin Gemil
Director of the Institute of Turkish and Central Asian Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca - Minister Dr. Titus Corlăţean
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania - Traian Radu Negrei
Manager of Monuments and Heritage Tourism Administration - Prof. Dr. Răzvan Theodorescu
Romanian Academy, General Secretary of the International Association for South-East European Studies - Prime Minister Dr. Victor Ponta
Prime Minister of Romania - Prof. Dr. Vlad Nistor
President of the Bucharest University Senate, Founding Director of the Institute for Diplomatic Studies of the University of Bucharest - MK Rabbi Ya'akov Margi
Member of the Israeli Knesset; Former Minister of Religious Services - The Hon. Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev
President of Bulgaria 1990 – 1997 - Prof. Dr. Zoe Petre
Professor Emeritus, University of Bucharest