The International Symposia on Cultural Diplomacy 2015

"The 70th Anniversary of the End of WW2 and the Establishment of the UN: Developing Initiatives to Promote Cultural Understanding, Global Human Rights & World Peace"

(Berlin, London, New York, Istanbul; May - December, 2015)

Speaker List for the Symposia

Speakers and delegates during the symposia will include 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.

Speakers & Delegates for the Symposia include:

H.E. Amb. Katalin Bogyay
Ambassador of Hungary to the UN		 D.G. Irina Georgieva Bokova
Director-General of UNESCO		 H.R. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations

Prof. A. D. N. Bajpai
Vice-Chancellor, H. P. University, India 		Hon. Agbéyomé Kodjo
Former Prime Minister of Togo 		Amb. Andris Teikmanis
Ambassador of Latvia to the UK
Hon. Bertie Ahern
Former Prime Minister of Ireland 		MP Bill Wiggin
Member of the British Parliament 		H. E. Amb. Carlos dos Santos
High Commissioner of Mozambique to the United Kingdom
MP Carmel Sepuloni
Member of the New Zealand Parliament 		Charles Farrugia
National Archivist and CEO, National Archives of Malta 		MP Chris Bryant
Member of the British Parliament
Rt. Hon. Lord Chris Holmes
Member of the House of Lords 		Rt. Hon. Lord David Triesman
Member of the House of Lords 		Dawn Foster
Journalist, The Guardian
Prof. Deborah Bull
Director, Culture at King's College, London 		Rt. Hon. Lady Dianne Hayter
Member of the House of Lords 		Amb. Diego Gómez Pickering
Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom
The Rt. Hon. Baroness Elizabeth Berridge
Member of the House of Lords 		Rt. Hon. Lord Frank Judd
Member of the British Parliament 		Amb. Ivan Romero Martinez
Ambassador of Honduras to the UK
Rt. Hon. Lord Jack McConnell
Former First Minister of Scotland 		James Astill
Political Editor, The Economist 		Sir James Mancham
Former President of the Seychelles
Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece
European Institute & Department of International Relations, London School of Economics 		The Rt. Hon. Baroness Jenny Randerson
Member of the House of Lords 		MP Jim Fitzpatrick
Member of the British Parliament
Rt. Hon. Baroness Judith Jollly
Member of the House of Lords 		MP Keith Vaz
Member of the British Parliament 		Hon. Lawrence Gonzi
Former Prime Minister of Malta
MP Mark Pritchard
Member of the British Parliament 		Rt. Hon. Lord Michael Bates
Minister of State, Home Office, UK 		Hon. Natalie Louise Bennett
Leader of the Green Party
Sir Simon Hughes (MP)
Member of the British Parliament 		MP Stephen Gethins
Member of the British Parliament 		Rt. Hon. Lord Swraj Paul
Member of the House of Lords
Hon. Thuli Madonsela
Public Protector of South Africa 		MP Tracey Martin
Member of the New Zealand Parliament 		MP Zulekha Juma Hassan
Member of the parliament of Kenya

Alessandra Roccasalvo
Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP, Kosovo		 Judge Bekim Sejdiu
Judge, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo		 Prof. Dr. Blerim Reka
Professor of Law, SEE University
President Enver Hasani
President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo 		The Hon. Enver Peci
Chairman of Kosovo Judicial Council 		President Fejzullah Hasani
President of the Supreme Court of Kosovo
Flora Macula
UN Women Kosovo 		Minister Hajredin Kuqi
Minister of Justice, Government of Kosovo		 Joel Mermet
Senior Human Rights Expert
The Hon. Kadri Veseli
Chairman of the Parliament of Kosovo 		MP Margarita Kadriu
Member of Parliament of Kosovo		 Mark C. Donfried
Director General & Founder, ICD
Narasimha Rao
Chief of the UNHCR Mission, Kosovo 		Ombudsman Sami Kurteshi
Kosovo Ombudsperson		 H.E. Amb. Tracey Ann Jacobson
Ambassador of the USA to Kosovo
Judge Valdete Daka
Judge, the Supreme Court of Kosovo 		President Vesna Medenica
President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro 		 

Abed Nadjib
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Afghanistan to Germany		 MEP Afzal Khan
Member of the European Parliament		 Agata Kielek
Postgraduate student of International Studies at Durham University, UK; specialization in the European Union, diplomacy & European Security
H.E. Amb. Ali Majedi
Ambassador of Iran to Germany		 Ali Raza Syed
Chairman, Kashmir Council EU Brussels Belgium		 The Hon. Anna Diamantopoulou
Former Greek Minister; Former Greek European Commissioner for Employment
Annabella Stieran
Journalist; Documentary researcher and producer, Shells for Media productions Ltd		 Prof. Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper
Professor, History Department, Free University of Berlin		 Charles Huber (MdB)
Member of the Germany Parliament
Gitta Connemann (MdB)
Member of the German Parliament		 Prof. Dr. Hermann Kreutzmann
Chairman, Department of Geography, Free University Berlin		 Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Adam
Associate Professor of Political Science & Director of Cultural Relations and Information University of Bahri, Khartoum, Sudan
Marian Wendt (MdB)
Member of the German Parliament		 Dr. Michael Gottlob
Representative, Amnesty International Berlin Germany		 The Hon. Michèle Alliot-Marie
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France
Dr. Mohamed Elrashed
Pharmacist of the Medical Project of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society –Sudan, North Kordofan		 Dr. Nasir Mohamed Hassan Elsheikh
Associate Professor and Vice Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Kordofan University, North Kordofan, State Elobied, Sudan		 H. E. Amb. Ramón Custodio Espinoza
Ambassador of Honduras to Germany
H.E. Amb. Ranko Vilovic
Ambassador of Croatia to Germany		 Roderich Kiesewetter (MdB)
Member of the Germany Parliament		 H.E. Amb. Ruth M. Chikwira
Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Germany
MEP Sajjad Karim
Member of the European Parliament		 Prof. Dr. Shucheng Wang
PhD in Law; Lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong		 Dr. Siswo Pramono
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Indonesia to Germany
H.E. Amb. Syed Hasan Javed
Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany		 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brückner
Academic Director, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies		 Valeria Zincone
PHD researcher of Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations, Center for Cultural Diplomacy studies and the University of Bucharest

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