Symposium Speakers & Delegates

Speakers & Delegates during the conferences include among others 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:

• 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