International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the USA
"US Cultural Diplomacy in Practice: Building Cultural Bridges to Strengthen the Relationships between America and the Global Community"
(Washington D.C., June 23th - 24th; Baltimore, June 25th; & New York City, June 26th - 27th, 2014)
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
