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 conference will include among others the following dignitaries:

Supachai Panitchpakdi
4th Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)); 9th Secretary-General of the UNCTAD

 Irina Bokova
10th Director-General of UNESCO

Hakima El Haite
President Liberal International
Natalia Gavrilita
Prime minister of Moldove (2021-2) 		Gjorge Ivanov
President of North Macedonia (2009-19)		 Mladen Ivanic
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina (2014-15, 2016-17)
Stefan Kaufmann
Member of the German Parliament		 Alex Salmond
First Minister of Scotland (2007-14)		 Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
Chair of the Alba Party, Scotland
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France		 Ann Linde
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
Nondas Metaxas
Former CEO, Cyprus Stock Exchange		 Yossi Beilin
Former Minister of Justice of Israel; Leading “Architect” of the Oslo & Geneva Accords

Rajeeva Bandaranaike
Chief Executive Officer, Colombo Stock Exchange
Hassan Diab
Prime Minister of Lebanon 2020-21		 Katalin Bogyay
President of UNESCO 36th General Conference; Former UN and UNESCO Ambassador of Hungary		 Emil Constantinescu
President of Romania (1996-2000)

Ali Ahmad Jalali
Former Minister of the Interior of Afghanistan

 Delia Domingo-Albert
(Former Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs)		 Mohammad Hanif Atmar
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan
Uli Brückner
Jean Monnet Professor
For European Studies, Stanford University Berlin, ICD Founder

Mmantsetsa Marope
Former Director, International Bureau of Education, UNESCO

Xhezair Zaganjori
Former President of the Supreme Court of Albania

Rui Duarte Barros
Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau

Said W. Musa
Prime Minister of Belize (1998 – 2008)

Hrant Bagratyan
(Prime Minister of Armenia 1993-96)