Berlin Forum on Culture & Folklore Diplomacy 2024

"Dancing and Singing Nations Closer"

(Berlin; May 16th - 19th, 2024 – Held Parallel to the Berlin Carnival of Cultures)

Speakers & Delegates

Speakers during the forum will include leading politicians, senior diplomats, governmental officials, senior academics, 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 for the forum include among others the following dignitaries:

Natalia Gavrilita
Prime minister of Moldova (2021-2) 		Irina Bokova »
10th Director-General of UNESCO		 Hakima El Haite »
President Liberal International
Emil Constantinescu »
President of Romania (1996-2000)		 Hassan Diab »
Prime Minister of Lebanon 2020-21		 Mladen Ivanic
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina (2014-15, 2016-17)
Walter Mzembi
Former Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Zimbabwe		 Alex Salmond
First Minister of Scotland (2007-14)		 Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
Chair of the Alba Party, Scotland
Delia Domingo-Albert
(Former Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs)		 Ann Linde
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden		 Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis »
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
Ali Ahmad Jalali »
Former Minister of the Interior of Afghanistan		 Katalin Bogyay »
President of UNESCO 36th General Conference; Former UN and UNESCO Ambassador of Hungary		 Yossi Beilin
Former Minister of Justice of Israel; Leading “Architect” of the Oslo Accords & the Geneva Initiative
Karl-Erik Norrman
Secretary General of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP); Faculty Member of ICD Academy Faculty		 Eurydice Georganteli
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science;  Lecturer at Harvard University		 Olivier Arifon
Faculty - Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies (CCDS)