Moscow Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2014
"Striking a Chord Between the East and the West"
Symposium Speakers & Delegates
Speakers & Delegates during the conferences include among others heads 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 Symposium:
- Prof. Dr. A.B. Manoilo
Professor, Department of Political Science MSU Lomonosov - Prof. Dr. Aleksey L. Nikolov
Managing Director of RT (Russia Today) - Prof. Dr. Alexander Merzlov
Head of Sustainable Rural Development Center, Timiryazev Agricultural State University - Prof. Dr. Alexander O. Naumov
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science MSU Lomonosov - Prof. Dr. Alexey Gromyko
Professor, Faculty of International Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University - Andrash Barani
Director, Balassi Institute - Hungarian Cultural Centre in Moscow - H. E. Amb. Astra Kurme
Ambassador of Latvia to the Russian Federation - Dmitri Trenin
Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moscow Center - Ivan Ozhogin
Russian Actor & Opera Singer - Kirill Oleinik
Sculptor - Lev Voronkov
Head of the Nordic Department of the Center for Nordic and Baltic Studies, MGIMO University - Liudmila Tsoy
Director of Moscow Youth Multifunctional Center - Maria Morozova
Director, The Timchenko Fondation - Rahul Shrivastava
Political Counsellor, Embassy of India to Russia - Dr. Teodora Yannitsi
Director of the Hellenic Cultural Center of Moscow - Prof. Dr. Valery Tishkov
Professor, Ethnology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences - Vasily Tsereteli
Director, Moscow Museum of Modern Art - The Hon. Dr. Vladimir Filippov
Rector, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; Former Minister of Education of Russia - Prof. Dr. Vladimir Tonkha
Professor and Head of the Cello Department, Russian Gnessins Academy of Music - Prof. Dr. William Schmidt
Professor, Department of Ethnic and Federative Relations, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration