Speaker List for the Symposia

• Sheikh Akhmed Tamim
  Mufti of Ukraine
• President Angelo (Anġlu) Farrugia
  Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta
• H. E. Amb. August Parengkuan
  Ambassador of Indonesia to Germany 
• Mufti Dr. Aziz ef. Hasanović
  President of Meshihat of Islamic Community in Croatia
• Claudia Bandion-Ortner
  Deputy Secretary General, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)
• Director Christos Koukliotis
  Director, Office of the Holy Arbishopric of Cyprus
• The Hon. Dr. Erato Marcoullis
  Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
• The Hon. Dr. Erhard Busek
  Former Vice-Chancellor of Austria; Former Minister for Education & Cultural Affairs
• Senator Francesco Maria Amoruso
  Member of the Italian Senate; President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean of Malta
• President Franco Frattini
  Former Foreign Minister of Italy
• Bishop Fülöp Kocsis
  Bishop of the Diocese Hajdudorog, Hungary
• MP Gian Luigi Gigli
  Member of the Italian Parliament
• The Hon. Halldór Ásgrímsson
  Former Prime Minister of Iceland
• His Eminence Husein ef. Kavazovic
  Grand Mufti of Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Archbishop Ignazio Sanna
  Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
• Senator Ivana Simeoni
  Member of the Italian Senate
• The Very Revd Prof. James Atwell
  Head of Winchester Cathedral
• Master Jun Hong Lu
  World Renowned Chinese Buddhist Leader
• The Hon. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
  Former Prime Minister of Spain
• H.E Amb. Dr. Kenan Gürsoy
  Ambassador of Turkey to the Holy See
• H.E. Amb. Lars-Hjalmar Wide
  Ambassador of Sweden to the Holy See
• Bishop Leonid Padun
  Senior Bishop of the Ukrainian Christian Evangelical Church
• MP Lia Quartapelle
  Member of the Italian Parliament
• Senator Linda Lanzillotta
  Vice President of the Italian Senate
• Senator Lucio Malan
  Member of the Italian Senate
• H. E. Amb. Mai Alkaila
  Ambassador of Palestine to Italy
• Sen. Lucio Malan
  Member of the Italian Senate
• MP Marco Di Lello
  Member of the Italian Parliament
• His Excellency Archbishop Maroun Laham
  Patriarchal Vicar for Jordan of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
• MP Marta Grande
  Member of the Italian Parliament
• His Eminence Metropolitan Stephanos of Tallin
  Primate of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church
• Sen. Mihai Razvan Ungureanu
  Member of the Romanian Senate: Former Prime Minister of Romania
• MP Milena Santerini
  Member of the Italian Parliament
• H.E. Amb. Mirko Jelic
  Ambassador of Serbia to the Holy See
• His Eminence Sultan Muhammad Saad Abubakar
  Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria
• Rev. Olivier Reigen Wang Genh
  President of the Buddhist Union of France
• Olivera Jovanovic
  Secretary General, Inter-Religious Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• The Hon. Dr. Paul Jacob Bhatti
  Former Minister of National Harmony and Minority Affairs of Pakistan
• Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Virgilio S. David
  Auxiliary Bishop of San Fernando, the Philippines
• Dr. Sheikh Ramzy
  Imam, Director of Iqra Islamic institute
• MP Reinhold Lopatka
  Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Austrian People's Party, National Council of Austria
• MEP Sandra Zampa
  Member of the European Parliament
• MP Sandro Gozi
  Member of the Italian Parliament
• President Stjepan Mesić
  Former President of Croatia
• H.E. Amb. Théodore C. Loko
  Ambassador of Benin to the Holy See
• MP Vášáryová Magdaléna
  Actress; Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
• The Hon. Wafik Moustafa
  Founder and Chairman of the Conservative Arab Network

• Dr. Alina Malinowska
  Researcher, Department of Human Rights, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University- Lublin, Poland
• MEP Angelika Werthmann
  Member of the European Parliament
• MP Anna Wallén
  Member of the Parliament of Sweden
• Bozidar Jovanovic
  Consul of Serbia in Strasbourg
• Judge Boštjan Zupančič
  Judge, the European Court of Human Rights
• Judge Dmitry Dedov
  Judge, European Court of Human Rights
• Judge Dragoljub Popovic
  Judge, European Court of Human Rights
• MP Egidijus Vareikis,
  Member of the Parliament of Lithuania
• Rt. Hon Mr. Elfyn Llwyd
  Member of the British Parliament
• MP Fiona Mactaggart
  Member of the British Parliament
• MEP Sir Graham Watson
  Member of European Parliament for the South West of England and Gibraltar; President, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
• Grégory Thuan
  Laywer, Cabinet Hincker & Associés
• Judge Ineta Ziemele
  Judge, Section President, European Court of Human Rights
• MP Ján Figel
  Vice President, National Council of the Slovak Republic
• MEP Kristiina Ojuland
  Member of the European Parliament
• Ms. Lilja Gretarsdottir
  Senior Adviser on Migration, Council of Europe
• Ms. Liri Kopachi
  Head of Equality Division, Council of Europe
• Manuel Lezertua
  Director of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
• Prof. Dr. Maurice Blanc
  Professor of Sociology, University of Strasbourg
• Dr. Mohammad H. Zarei
  Assistant Professor of Public Law at Shahid Beheshti University, Faculty of Law, Tehran
• MP Ögmundur Jónasson
  Member of the Parliament of Iceland
• Ms. Petya Nestorova
  Executive Secretary of GRETA
• Ms. Regína Jensdóttir
  Head of the Children´s Rights Division of the Council of Europe
• Prof. Dr. Romuald Normand
  Professor of Sociology, University of Strasbourg
• Prof. Dr. Scott Johns
  Lecturer, Immigration Rights and Individual Rights, University of Denver
• Ms. Sandra Vermuyten
  Equality and Rights Officer of Public Services International - PSI
• MEP Silvana Koch-Mehrin
  Member of the European Parliament
• MP Tynkkynen Oras
  Member of the Parliament of Finland
• MP Wayne David
  Member of the British Parliament

• Abha Dawesar
  Indian Novelist
• Ahsin Rasheed
  Chairman & CEO of DDG
• The Hon. Alberto Gonzales
  80th United States Attorney General of the United States
• Amb. Andras Simonyi
  Managing director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University
• Angela Beeching
  Author
• Prof. Dr. Angie Cruz
  Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
• Anna Yankova
  Director, International Affairs, Office of the Secretary of State of Maryland
• Arnold Packer
  Former United States Assistant Secretary of Labor
• Ashok Rajamani
  Author
• Bob Dotson
  American Broadcast Journalist & Host of "American Story with Bob Dotson," NBC News Today Show
• Boria Sax
  Writer & Journalist
• Carl N. Grant, III
  EVP, Business Development
• H.E. Amb. Elena Poptodorova
  Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States
• Elissa Bantug
  Project Coordinator of the Breast Cancer Survivorship Program, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Emanuel Xavier
  Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Novelist, Editor, and Activist
• Prof. Dr. Enrique S. Pumar
  Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology, Catholic University of America
• James Finn Cotter
  Professor of English at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh NY
• H.E. Amb. Jānis Mažeiks
  Permanent Representative of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations
• Jazliza Jamaluddin
  (PhD  researcher of Diplomatic History, University of Nottingham, UK)
• Jeff Leen
  Assistant Managing Editor in Charge of the Investigations Unit, The Washington Post
• Dr. Jesse Lutabingwa
  Professor of Public Administration at Appalachian State University
• John D. Fonte
  Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute
• Prof. Dr. John J. Tierney
  Walter Kohler Professor of International Relations; Academic Dean, Ad Interim;
• Prof. Dr. Joseph L Adolphe
  Professor, Fine Arts, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John's University
• Joseph Sung
  Director of North America for Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL)
• Rear Admiral Dr. Joyce M. Johnson
  Rear Admiral (Ret.) U.S. Public Health Service
• Kayvon Afshari
  Host & Executive Producer, the Mideast Show with Kayvon Afshari
• Kenny Fame
  Poet & Musician
• Larry Schugam
  Executive Vice President, the Baltimore Curriculum Project
• Len Bernstein
  Photographer
• Lionell Thomas
  Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
• Ludwig Brunner
  Executive Director, the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University
• Maiken Tandgaard Derno
  Head of Culture and Public Diplomacy, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations
• Margaret Newman
  Executive Director, Municipal Art Society of New York
• Dr. Max Hilaire
  Associate Professor & Chairperson, Morgan State University
• Megan Hamilton
  Program Director, Creative Alliance
• Nasratullah Rasa
  (Project Director for the “Health Partners International of Canada” in Kabul, Afghanistan)
• H.E. Amb. Dr. Neil Parsan
  Ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United States
• Nina Bankova
  (Director, Professional Exchanges, Strategy and Business Development, World Trade Center Institute)
• Dr. Oktar Babuna, MD
  Representative, A9 TV Turkey
• Phil Eskeland
  Executive Director, Korea Economic Institute of America
• Renée Watson
  (Poet)
• Senator Richard Bryan
  Former United States Senator
• Robert S Walker
  Former Republican Chief Deputy Whip of the United States House of Representatives
• H.E. Amb. Simona Miculescu
  Ambassador of Romania to the UN
• Stuart Isacoff
  Author
• Sussan Tahmasebi
  Co-Founder of the International Civil Society Action Network, Iran
• Ms. Tatiana de Germán-Ribón
  First Secretary of Cultural Affairs, Embassy of Colombia to the United States
• Teresa Lapid Rodriguez
  Director, George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University
• Tia Powell Harris
  Executive Director, Weeksville Heritage Center
• H.E. Amb. Vladimir Drobnjak
  Permanent Representative of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations
• Yerkin Akhinzhanov
  Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States
• H.E. Amb. Yuriy Sergeyev
  Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations
• Yvonne Captain
  Director, MIPP Program Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

• Judge Abdulkadir Ilhani
  Deputy Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Turkey
• Judge Borge Dahl
  Former President, Supreme Court of Denmark
• President Branko Hrvatin
  President, Supreme court of Croatia
• Judge Danute Jociene
  Judge, Constitutional Court of Lithuania
• The Hon. Dirk Niebel
  Minister of Economic Cooperation & Development of Germany (2009-13)
• Minister Duško Marković
  Minister of Justice of Montenegro
• Judge Fausto Pocar
  Judge Fausto Pocar, Former President, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• President Fejzullah Hasani
  President, Supreme court of Kosovo
• President Filip Vujanović
  President of Montenegro
• Judge Göran Lambertz
  Judge, Supreme Court of Sweden; Former Chancellor of Justice of Sweden
• Minister Igor Luksic
  Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
• Judge Ildiko Marosi Horcherne
  Judge, Supreme court of Hungary
• Judge Iulia-Cristina Tarcea
  Vice-President, High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania
• Director Irakli Khutsurauli
  Manager of the Supreme Court of Georgia
• Judge Ivica Stanković
  Judge of the Supreme Court of Montenegro
• Ombudsman Ixhet Memeti
  Ombudsman of the Republic of Macedonia
• Jelena Djonovic Vukotic
  Manager of the Program, UNDP Office in Montenegro
• Ombudsman José de Faria Costa
  Ombudsman of Portugal
• Judge Julia Sebutinde
  Judge, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• Ombudsman Juris Jansons
  Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia
• Judge Milka Ristova
  Judge, Supreme Court of Macedonia
• Amb. Mitja Drobnic
  Head of the EU Delegation to Montenegro
• Prof. Dr. Mladen Vukcevic
  Dean of the Faculty of Law-Mediterranean, Podgorica University
• Judge Petre Lazaroui
  Judge, Constitutional Court of Romania
• Sanja Bojanic
  Head of the Sector for Democratic Management, UNDP Office in Montenegro
• Director Sinisa Bjekovic
  Director of the Center for Human Rights in Podgorica
• President Vesna Medenica
  President, Supreme Court of Montenegro
• Judge Xhezair Zaganjori
  Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Albania
• President Zelimir Baric
  President of the Supreme court of Republika Srpska
• Zoran Pazin
  Representative of Montenegro before the Strasbourg Court

• The Hon. Agbéyomé Messan Kodjo
  Former Prime Minister of Togo; Former President of the National Assembly of Togo
• Prof. Dr. Alfred Gutiérrez-Kavanagh 
  Professor of International Relations & the Middle East, Comillas University of Madrid
• Antonio Alonso Martinez   
  Celebrated Spanish Painter
• H.E. Vicar Bernardo Torres Escudero
  Judicial Vicar, Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Real, Spain
• The Hon. Cheick Modibo Diarra  
  Former Prime Minister of Mali
• MP Don. Conrado Escobar
  Member of the Spanish Parliament
• Prof. Dr. Emilio Sáenz-Francés San Baldomero 
  Professor, Department of International Relations, Universidad de Comillas
• Iñigo Henriquez de Luna Losada  
  Member, Madrid City Council; President of the People's Party of the Salamanca district
• Joe O'Reilly TD
  Member of Irish Parliament
• MP José Ignacio Sánchez Amor
  Member of the Spanish Parliament; Former Vice President of the Junta de Extremadura
• The Hon. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
  Former Prime Minister of Spain
• Prof. Dr. José María Mella Márquez   
  Professor, Institute for Economics & Development Policy, Autonomous University of Madrid
• MP Juan Moscoso del Prado Hernández
  Member of the Spanish Parliament
• Prof. Dr. Karl P. Donfried
  Professor Emeritus of Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College USA
• H. E. Amb. Kastriot Robo  
  Ambassador of Albania to Spain
• The Hon. Lawrence Gonzi 
  Former Prime Minister of Malta; 4th Chairperson-in-office of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Sen. Leila Aïchi    
  Member of the French Senate
• Luis Delgado
  Celebrated Spanish Musician
• Marcos García
  Director, Medialab Prado
• Prof. Dr. Marta Genís Pedra
  Director, Applied Language Department, Universidad Nebrija, Spain
• Miguel Ors Villarejo
  Deputy Chief Editor, Actualidad Económica
• Prof. Dr. Ovidi Carbonell Cortés
  Professor of Translation Studies; Director, Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center, University of Salamanca
• Pat Breen TD
  Member of the Irish Parliament; Chairman Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs & Trade
• Sen. Pedro Manuel Hernández López  
  Member of the Spanish Senate
• President Rajkeswur Purryag, GCSK, GOSK
  President of the Republic of Mauritius
• Prof. Dr. Rodríguez García-Brazales Ángel    
  Professor of Economic Analysis, Economic Analysis Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• The Hon. Rui Duarte Barros
  Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
• Samuel Aranda    
  Celebrated Spanish Photojournalist
• H. E. Amb. Slobodan Chashulev
  Ambassador of Macedonia to Spain
• President Václav Klaus
  Former President of the Czech Republic
• H. E. Amb. Valeriu Gheorghiu 
  Ambassador of Modavia in Spain
• Virginia P. Alonso   
  Vice Director, Grupo 20 Minutos
• H. E. Amb. Yuli Mumpuni 
  Ambassador of Indonesia to Spain

• H. E. Amb. Alberto Guani
  Ambassador of Uruguay to Germany
• H.E. Amb. Caetano Luís Pequito De Almeida Sampaio
  Ambassador of Portugal to Germany
• The Hon. Dirk Niebel
  Minister of Economic Cooperation & Development of Germany (2009-13)
• Dr. Elke Ritt
  Head, Creative Europe, the British Council Germany; Member of the Faculty, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies
• Dr. Henning Riecke
  Program Director, Transatlantic Relations, German Council on Foreign Relations
• Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer, MdB
  Member of the German Parliament
• Amb. Karl-Erik Normann
  Former Swedish Ambassador; Secretary General, European Cultural Parliament
• Katja Hermes
  Director, German Office, Sound Diplomacy
• Mila Zaharieva-Schmolke
  Founder, Youth Connected By Sounds International Radio
• Dr. Ognian Hishow, Researcher
  EU-Integration, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
• Dr. R Andreas Kraemer
  Founding Director of Ecologic Institute in Berlin
• Dr. Tahsin Yilmaz
  Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Turkey to Germany
• Tatsuya Machida
  Cultural Counselor, Embassy of Japan to Germany
• Stephan Mayer, MdB
  Member of the German Parliament
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Gil
  Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Literature, Science and Art History, Technical University of Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho
  Professor, Institute for Cultural Studies, Humboldt University
• State Secretary Thomas Silberhorn (MdB)
  Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation of Germany
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brückner
  Academic Director - Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies (CCDS)

• Annika Rembe
  CEO, the Swedish Institute
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Henningsen       
  Honorary Professor at the Department for Northern European Studies, Humboldt University
• The Hon. Bertel Haarder
  Vice President, Danish Parliament; Former Danish Minister of Education, Interior, Health, Science, Technology and Progress
• Secretary General Dagfinn Høybråten          
  Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers
• Geir Helgesen        
  Director, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• The Hon. Halldor Asgrimsson   
  Former Prime Minister of Iceland; Former Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers
• Inger Blix Kvammen
  Administrative Director, Pikene på Broen
• Prof. Dr. Jakob Skovgaard Petersen
  Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
• Karina Petersone
  Director, the Latvian Institute
• Amb. Karl-Erik Norrman
  Former Swedish Ambassador; Secretary General, European Cultural Parliament
• Lene Espersen
  Chairman, the Baltic Development Forum (BDF)
• Marcus Andersson
  Partner and Head of Research, Tendensor AB
• Minister Marianne Jelved
  Minister of Culture of Denmark
• Dr. Marie-Louise von Plessen   
  Art Historian & Curator
• Amb. Michael Metz Mørch
  Director, the Danish Cultural Institute
• Michael Nellemann
  Director, Nivaagaards Malerisamling
• The Hon. Mogens Lykketoft
  Speaker of The Danish Parliament
• Morten Traavik
  Norwegian Artist
• Amb. Ole Egebjerg Mikkelsen
  Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• Prof. Dr. Ole Wæver
  Professor and Center Director, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
• Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning   
  Director, the Center for Cultural and Experience Economy, Denmark

• 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