The International Symposia on Cultural Diplomacy 2013
"The Potential for Cultural Diplomacy in Supporting National and International Governance"
(Berlin, Ankara, Istanbul, Bucharest, Rome, Washington, NYC, Brussels, London; May-August 2013)
Symposia Speakers
The speakers during the conference will include leading figures and experts from international politics, academia, the diplomatic community, civil society and the private sector, from across the world. These speakers will include a number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board please click hereSpeakers for the Symposia Includes:
- Ahmed El Mahmoudy
Founder, ID Labs Art & Technology Solutions - Alex Kem
Organizer, the Kenako Festival, Afrika Medien Zentrum e.V. - Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi
President, AFROTAK Tv cyberNomads - Andrea Gisell Kizua
African Artist - Anna Shivute
Commissioner, the Namibian Film Commission - Dr. Asogwa Euphemia Chika
Lecturer and Head of Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba - Cornelia Hammelmann
Project Manager, Deutsche Filmförderungsanstal - Dagmar Dehmer
Journalist, Der Tagesspiegel - Dayo Balogun
Film Editor and Postproduction Consultant, H264 Media Limited - Emo Rugene
Actor - Hadja Kaba
Founder, Mama Afrika e.V. - Isona Admetila
Representative, World Cinema Fund - Prof. John A. Kantara
Professor for Journalism – DEKRA Hochschule Berlin, Author, Producer, Journalist - Dr. Kalakhi Mohamed
Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Morocco to Germany - Prof. Dr. Kishore Chakraborty
Director of Research - Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Leon Willems
Director, Free Press Unlimited - Marion Lieser
Managing Director of OXFAM Germany - Matthias Akaazua
Post Graduate Student of International Business Management (MBA), Girne American University; Certificate Student, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Michael Tecklenburg
Head, Africa Division and Coordinator, Deutsche Welle - H.E. Amb. Dr. Mohamed Abdelhamid Ibrahim Higazy
Ambassador of Egypt to Germany
- Prof. Dr. Adrian Curaj
General Director of the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding - Dr. Adrian Silvan Ionescu
Director of the „G. Oprescu” Institute of Art History - Dr. Adrian Dumitru
Research Assistant, Metropolitan Library of Bucharest - Dr. Akkan Suver
President of Marmara Group Foundation - Dr. Alexandru Todericiu
- H.E. Prof. Dr. Andrei Marga
Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute - H. E. Crin Antonescu
President of the Romanian Senate - Prof. Dr. Augustin Ioan
Professor,”Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Bianca Valota
Professor Emeritus Università degli StudidiMilano - Dr. Corina Iosif
Cercetător Academia Română filiala Cluj - Dr. Dan Tudor Ionescu
- Dan A. Petre
Director of the Romanian Diplomatic Institute - Minister Dr. Daniel Barbu
Minister of Culture of Romania - Prof. Dr. Ecaterina Lung
Professor, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest - The Hon. Dr. Emil Constantinescu,
President of Romania 1996-2000; President of the Academy of Cultural Diplomacy Berlin - Prof. Dr. Fotini Pomoni Papaioannou
National Capodistrian University, Athens - Dr. Gabriel Leanca
Lecturer Faculty of History, Al. Ioan Cuza University, Iasi - Dr. Garry Jacobs
Chairman of the Board and CEO, World Academy of Art and Science - Prof. Dr. George Grigore
Arabic Department Coordinator Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest - Dr. Gheorghe Duca
President of Academy of Sciences of Moldova - Dr. Ioana Feodorov
Institute for Southeastern European Studies of the Romanian Academy - Dr. Ionel Haiduc
President of the Romanian Academy - Prof. Dr. Ivo Slaus
President of the World Academy of Art and Science - H. E. Amb. Katalin Bogyay
President of the General Conference of UNESCO - Prof. Dr. Kishore Chakraborty
Director of Research Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies, Berlin - Prof. Dr. Kopi Kycyku
- Dr. Lia Brad Chisacof
Researcher, Institute for the South-East European Studies Romanian Academy - Prof. Dr. Liviu Papadima
Prorector of University of Bucharest - The Hon. Dr. Ljubisha Georgievski
Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia 2006-2008 - Mădălina Vârtejeanu-Joubert
Conf. Univ. Professor, INALCO Paris - HRH Crown Princess Margareta of Romania
Crown Princess of Romania - Mark Donfried
Director and Founder of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin - Acad. Marius Sala
Vice-president of the Romanian Academy, Director of the „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics - Martin Hauser
Director of UNESCO Department, University of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Michael Metzeltin
Institute of Romance Studies, Vienna University - Prof. Dr. Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu
Professor, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Mihaela Grancea
Professor, Sibiu University - Prof. Dr. Mircea Dumitru
Rector of Bucharest University - Prof. Mohamed Abdelhady Mohamed Ahmed
Professor, Faculty of Archeology, University of Cairo - Acad. Momir Djurovic
President of the Academy of Science and Art - Prof. Naim Afgan
Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Sarajevo - Prof. Dr. Nicolae Şerban Tanaşoca
Director of the Institute for Southeastern European Studies of the Romanian Academy - MK Rabbi Nissim Zeev
Member of the Israeli Knesset; Co-Chair of the Inter parliamentary for Global Ethics - The Hon. Dr. Petar Stoyanov
President of Bulgaria 1997 - 2002 - The Hon. Dr. Petru Lucinschi
President of Moldova 1997-2001 - Minister Dr. Remus Pricopie
Minister of National Education of Romania - The Hon. Dr. Rexhep Meidani
President of Albania 1997-2002 - Prof. Dr. Ruben Safrastyan
Corresponding Member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Yerevan - Conf. Dr. Ruxandra Ivan
- Shoshana Bekerman
Director, Israeli Knesset Caucus for Judaism and Global Ethics - H.E. Prof. Dr. Sorin Oprescu
General Mayor of the Municipality of Bucharest - Prof. Dr. Tasin Gemil
Director of the Institute of Turkish and Central Asian Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca - Minister Dr. Titus Corlăţean
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania - Traian Radu Negrei
Manager of Monuments and Heritage Tourism Administration - Prof. Dr. Răzvan Theodorescu
Romanian Academy, General Secretary of the International Association for South-East European Studies - Prime Minister Dr. Victor Ponta
Prime Minister of Romania - Prof. Dr. Vlad Nistor
President of the Bucharest University Senate, Founding Director of the Institute for Diplomatic Studies of the University of Bucharest - MK Rabbi Ya'akov Margi
Member of the Israeli Knesset; Former Minister of Religious Services - The Hon. Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev
President of Bulgaria 1990 – 1997 - Prof. Dr. Zoe Petre
Professor Emeritus, University of Bucharest
- Minister Adolphe Rukenkanya
Minster of Youth, Sports and Culture of Burundi - Arthur Gwagwa
Coordinator, International Liaison Office, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum - Birgitta Wistrand
Researcher at Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University; Sweden - Blanche Foster
Acting Executive Director, Darfur Rehabilitation Project, Inc. - Minister Dr. Cirino Hiteng Ofuho
Minister of Culture, Youth & Sports of South Sudan - Dr. Deborah S Davenport
Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment - Dietmar Köring
Architecht & Researcher, Institute for Urban Design and Sustainable urban Planning, Technische Universität Berlin - Dolkun Isa
Chairman of the Executive Committee, World Uyghur Congress - Edson Chiota
CEO, Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender - President Dr. Emil Constantinescu
Former President of Romania; President of the Academy of Cultural Diplomacy Berlin - Emmanuel Nahshon
Deputy Ambassador of Israel to Germany - Francisco Javier Urizar Pérez
Coordinator of the Defense of Human Dignity, Human Rights Office of the Archbishop of Guatemala - Dr. Gregory Stanton
President, Genocide Watch - Gyorgy Tatar
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Foundation for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities - Dr. Inge Gotzmann
National Manager, Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland, Bundesverband für Kultur, Natur und Heimat e. V. - Dr. James Smith
Special Representative, Aegis Trust - Jana Smiggels Kavková
Chair, Czech Women´s Lobby - Javier El-Hage
International Legal Director, The Human Rights Foundation - Hon. Minister Jean Jacques Nyenimigabo
Minster of Youth, Sports and Culture of Burundi - John Feffer
Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies - President Katalin Bogyay
President of the General Conference of UNESCO, ICD Advisory Board Member - Kelsang Gyalsen
Special Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Europe - The Hon. Kristina Ojuland
Member of European Parliament; Former Foreign Minister of Estonia, , ICD Advisory Board Member - Leena Azzam
Research Assistant, Law Department, the American University in Cairo (AUC) - Ljuljjeta Goranci Brkic
General Manager, Nansen Dialogue Center Sarajevo - Dr. Lulzim Farizi
State labor Inspectorate, Government of Macedonia - Louise Lindfors
Chariwoman, The Fredrika Bremer Society - Marie Brown
Area Management Coordinator, Foyle Women's Aid - Prof. Dr. Marilou McPhedran
Professor, Institute for International Women's Rights, University of Winnipeg - Dr. Mark Barwick,
Manager, Human Rights Without Frontiers - Mark Donfried
Director & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) - Prof. Martin Jänicke
Founding Director of the Environmental Policy Research Center, Freie Universität; Germany - Mary Devery
Historian and Human Rights campaigner, Board Member TERRE DES FEMMES e.V. - Maryam Faghihimani
Sustainability Adviser, University of Oslo, Core Group member of UNICA Green Academic Footprint (UGAF) and Nordic Sustainable Campus Network (NSCN) - Meskerem Geset Techane
Deputy Executive Director of Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) - Metin Djelil
Manager at the Islamic Center-Mosque "Ebu Hanifa", Germany - Mona el Roby,
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Future University, Egypt - Dr. Mukesh Kapila
Special Representative, Aegis Trust - Mushfiqul Fazal
Host & Moderator of TV Show "Hello Excellency" on NTV - Neama Ebaid
MA Student of Public Policy and Administration at the American University in Cairo (AUC) - The Hon. Ögmundur Jónasson
Former Minister of the Interior of Iceland, ICD Advisory Board Member - Paloma Moré
Manager, President of the Dulcamara Womens Assotiation - Ralf Fücks
President, Heinrich Boell Foundation - Dr. Robert Schuette
Chairman, Genocide Alert - Sabine Leskopf
Representative, Women Of Multicultural Ethnicity Network - Prof. Dr. Shaireen Rasheed
Professor Philosophy, LIU Post (Long Island University), NY, USA - Sheikh Maytham Al Salman
Chairman of the Bahrain Interfaith Center - Prof. Dr. Stefan Heiland
Professor, Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Technical University of Berlin - Twana Hassan
PhD researcher (Law), The University of Queensland, Australia - Prof. Dr. Yusuf Ziya Irbec
Member of the Turkish Parliament - Zvonimir Paul Separovic
Former Minister of Justice of Croatia
- Dr. Ares Kalandides
City planner & Managing Director, Inpolis UCE GmbH - Prof. Dr. Barbara Lenz
Head of Institute, Institute of Transport Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Spokeswoman, Cluster for Transport, Mobility and Logistics - Dr.-Ing. Eckhart Hertzsch
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP - Cornelia Horsch
Head, International Design Centre Berlin IDZ - Cornelia Yzer
Berlin Senator for Economics, Technology and Research - Elisabeth Schwerdfeger
M.A. in Management in Nonprofit Organizations - Francisco S. Tatad
Special Counsel on International Relations, Philippines - Dr. Guido Westerwelle
German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs - Hans Ulrich Fuhrke
Principal Advisor, GIZ-SUTIP Sustainable Urban Transport Improvement Project, German Association for Internation Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH) - Hazel Han
Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary - Jehan Chu
Director, Vermillion Art Collections, Board of Directors, Ambassadors of Design, Hong Kong - Vice President Jejomar C. Binay
Vice President of the Philippines; Former Mayor of Makati - Joerg Suermann
Founder & Managing Director, DMY (International Design Festival) Berlin - Johannes Kleske and Igor Schwarzmann
Managing Directors, Third Wave GmbH - Amb. Karl-Erik Norrman
Secretary General, European Cultural Parliament; Professor, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Mark C. Donfried
Director and Founder, The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy - Prof. Dr. Mohd. Noor Mat Yazid
Programme of International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia - Prof.Dr. Peter Ruge
Architect, Peter Ruge Architekten; Professor, Sustainiblw Design, Dessau Institute of Architecture - Rainer Becker
Daimler Mobility Services GmbH - Robert Kleinfeld
Competence centre Future Applications and Media, Fraunhofer FOKUS - Minister Dr. Surapond Tovichackchaikul
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand - Susa Pop
Director Berlin, Public Art Lab - Tac Lion
Director, AHL Lighting & Media Facades, China - Prof. Dr.Tatsuaki Tanaka
Professor Energy-Efficient Architecture, Ochanomizu University, Japan - Tobias Berger
Curator at “M+” the new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong - Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brückner
Jean Monet Professor of European Studies, Stanford University; Academic Director, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weinberg
Head, Hasso Plattner Institut - School of Design Thinking
- Prof. Dr. Achille Bonito Oliva
Art Critic, Professor of History of Contemporary Art, University “La Sapienza”, Rome - President Adele Chatfield Taylor
President and CEO, American Academy in Rome - Dr. Alessandro Masi
Secretary General, Società Dante Alighieri - President Amb. Bruno Bottai
President Società Dante Alighieri - Dante Ferretti
Art Director, Production Designer, Movie Costumes Designer, Winner of 3 Academy and BAFTA Awards - Dr. Edouard Planche
Program Specialist and Cultural Property Expert, UNESCO - Minister Emma Bonino
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy - President Amb. Francesco Aloisi de Larderel
President, Associazione Amici della Dante - Prof. Dr. Francesco Profumo
Former Minister of Education, University and Research - President Francesco Rutelli
Honorary President, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin - Minister Gaetano Quagliariello
Minister for Constitutional Reforms, Italy - President Gianni Puglisi
President, UNESCO National Italian Commission - President Giovanna Melandri
President of MAXXI Museum; Former Minister of Youth Policies and Sports - H. E. Amb. Hakki Akil
Ambassador of Turkey to Italy - Prof. Luca Serianni
Professor of Italian Literature, University “La Sapienza”, Rome - Gen. Marcello Mazzuca
General of the Carabinieri Arma, Specialized Units Division Commander - Ms. Marina Schneider
Senior Officer, UNIDROIT - Mr. Mark Donfried
Director and Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin - Massimiliano Fuksas
World Renowned Architect - Minister Massimo Bray
Minister for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Italy - Dr. Maurizio Fiorilli
Deputy State Attorney, Italy - President Paolo Baratta
President Biennale di Venezia - Mr. Paolo Peluffo
Vice President, Società Dante Alighieri, Rome, Former Under-Secretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers - President Pietro Grasso
President of the Italian Senate - President Sabrina Florio
Secretary General “Priorità Cultura” - Dr. Silvia Francescon
Head of the Rome Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) - Prof. Dr. Tullio Scovazzi
Professor of International Law, University of Milano-Bicocca
- Abed Nadjib
Chargé d' Affaires, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - President Emil Constantinescu
President, ICD Academy for Cultural Diplomacy; Former President of Romania - Amb. Karl-Erik Norrman
Professor, ICD Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies; Secretary General, European Cultural Parliament; Former Swedish Ambassador - Marc Frings
Head of Section South and Central Asia, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Mark C. Donfried
Director & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy - Mazar Javid
Charge d' Affaires, Pakistan Embassy - Mohammad Qais Ayobzai
Director, Legislative Strengthening, for the organization: Counterpart International, Afghanistan - Sarmad Hussain
Cultural Department, German Parliament - The Hon. Yasar Yakis
President, ICD Young Leaders Forum; Former Foreign Minister of Turkey
- Amb. Andras Simyoni
Director, the Center on Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University - H. E. Amb. Byrganym Aitimova
Representative of the Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations the Congress of Religious Leaders/Kazakhstan - Dr. Claudio Ribeiro,
Professor, Concordia University, Montreal - Dr. Christoph Bartmann
Executive Director, Regional Director North America, Goethe-Institut New York - Amb. Dr. Cynthia P. Scheider
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands - David S. Jackson
Executive Editor, the Washington Times - Deirdre White
President & CEO, CDC Development - Pastor Dele Olowu,
Chairman of Rccg Europe - Pastor E.A. Adeboye
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God - Rabbi Elie Abadie
Founding Rabbi of the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Member Permanent Forum for Global Ethics and the Culture of Peace - Emad E. Salem
Deputy Director for International Programs, Battery Dance Company - President Dr. Emil Constantinescu
President, ICD Academy for Cultural Diplomacy; Former President of Romania; Former Rector of University of Bucharest - Gordana Bekcic Pjescic
MA in USA Studies, graduated in Serbian and General Literature - H.E. Amb. Hubert John Charles
Ambassador of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the United States - Rear Admiral Dr. Joyce M. Johnson
Vice President of Health Sciences in the Health and Life Sciences Division of Battelle Memorial Institute; Former Chief Medical Officer and Surgeon General for the U.S. Coast Guard - Dr. Ilaria Scaglia
Professor, Asian and International History, Columbus State University - Kingsley Smith
Director, International Programs, National Public Radio (NPR) - Mark C. Donfried
Director & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy - Dr. Masoud Kavoossi
Professor of International Business, School of Business, Howard University - H. E. Amb. Mirsada Colakovic
Permanent Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina to the United Nations - The Hon. Dr. Nazar Al Baharma
Director - ICD Conflict Zones Mediation Center; Former Minister Of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain - Sheikh Ramzy
Director, Oxford Islamic Information Centre, Member of Un-A At Uk; Director Of Iqra At Iqra Istitute Oxford - Grand Mufti Dr. Sheikh Abdel Salam Mraish
Council Member, Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land - Captain Todd Gatlin
Acting Director, Office of International Affairs for the U.S. Coast Guard - Wilfried Eckstein
Head of the GI in Washington D.C - Rabbi Yizthak Dayan
Chief Rabbi of Geneva, Representative of the Conference of European Rabbis to the United Nations - H. E. Amb. Dr. Srdjan Darmanovic
Ambassador of Montenegro to the USA - The Hon. Yasar Yakis
Former Foreign Minister of Turkey
- Agnieszka Skuratowicz
Member of Cabinet of the President of the European Commission - Algirdas Saudargas (MEP)
Member of the European Parliament - Prof. Dr. Angela Liberatore
Professor, Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels - H. E. Amb. Avet Adonts
Ambassador of Armenia to the European Union - Barbora Ondejcikova
Student of MSc. in European Politics and Policies at KU Leuven in Belgium; Graduate in MA in Diplomatic Studies, cum laude, at Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta - H. E. Amb. Bernard Valero
Ambassador of France to Belgium - Prof. Dr. Bruno Coppieters
Professor, Political Science Department, Free University of Brussels - Minister Didier Reynders
Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs of Belgium - President Dr. Emil Constantinescu
President, ICD Academy for Cultural Diplomacy; Former President of Romania - The Hon. Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
Vice President, ICD Advisory Board; Former MEP; Former Minister of Culture of Luxembourg; Former Speaker of the Parliament - Prof. Dr. Glen Newey
Professor, Political Theory, Free University of Brussels - Irina Bratosin D'Almeida
Research Associate, Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences - The Hon. Jan Figel
Vice-President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic; Former European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth - Jonas Slaats
Theologian and Anthropologist; Head of MANAvzw - H. E. Amb. Kornelios S. Korneliou
Ambassador of Cyprus to the European Union - Klaus Bondam
Director, Danish Cultural Institute - László Surján (MEP)
Member of the European Parliament - H.E. Amb. Lazar Elenovski
Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to the Kingdom of Belgium; Former Minister of Defense of Macedonia - Leyla Abdullayeva
First Secretary of the Mission of Azerbaijan to European Union - Margareta Hanes
Independent Researcher, Research Project: Evaluating the Concept and Practices of Democratic Governance in Europe - Mark C. Donfried
Director & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy - H. E. Amb Marlene Bonnici
Permanent Representative of Malta to the European Union - H.E. Amb. Mihnea Motoc
Ambassador of Romania to the European Union - H. E. Amb. Paw Lwin Sein
Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the European Union - Philippe Suinen
CEO, Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency and Wallonie-Bruxelles International - H. E. Amb. Poul Skytte Christoffersen
Ambassador of Denmark to the European Union - H.E. Amb. Rami Mortada
Ambassador of Lebanon to the European Union - Senator Richard Miller (MP)
Member of the Belgian Senate; Member of the Parliament of the Francophone Community - Stefan Gerold
Head, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Brussels Office - Sylvain Berger
Consular General of France to Brussels - Tea Ivanovic
Researcher, International Studies, Virginia Technical University - Prof. Dr. Tom Casier
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent - H. E. Amb. Vangelis Vitalis
Ambassador of New Zealand to the European Union - Veli Yüksel (MP)
Member of the Flemish Parliament - H. E. Amb. Vesselin Valkanov
Ambassador of Bulgaria to Belgium and Luxembourg
- Prof. Dr. Andrea Zielinski
Professor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London - Andrew Copson
Chief Executive, British Humanist Association - Anil Bhanot OBE
Managing Trustee, Hindu Council UK - Balasubramanyam Chandramohan
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London in the UK - David Soul
Celebrated Actor, Director, Musician - Dorian Branea
Director, Romanian Cultural Center, London - H. E. Amb. Edward M. Turay
High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to the United Kingdom - Henry Bellingham
Member of the British Parliament - Hywel Williams
Member of the British Parliament - Mark C. Donfried
Director & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy - Martin Davidson
CEO and Chair, British Council - Natalie Louise Bennett
Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales - Dr. Nedal Al Salman
Human right activist; Head of Advocacy in Bahrain centre for human rights; Vice President of the Arab media monitoring group - Dr. Omer El-Hamdoon
President of the Muslim Association of Britain - Paa Kwesi Inkumsah
JCI UN Affairs Commissioner for Africa and Middle East (www.jci.cc) - Peter Tatchell
Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation - Rob Johnson
International Teams Administrator, England and Wales Cricket Board - Prof. Dr. Robert Picciotto
Department of Political Economy, Kings College London - Prof. Dr. Ruth Kattumuri
Co-Director, India Observatory & Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics - Sangeeta Bahadur
Minister Cultural, High Commission of India to the United Kingdom & Director, the Nehru Centre - Tim Unwin
Secretary General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization - Ven Bogoda Seelawimala
Head of the London Buddhist Vihara - Vivian Wineman
President, the Board of Deputies of British Jews - Lord William Richard Inglewood
Member of the House of Lords - H. E. Amb. Williams Nkurunziza
High Commissioner of Rwanda to the UK
- H. E. Amb. Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz
Ambassador of Turkey to the United Kingdom - Aisha Balarabe Bawa
Lecturer and Researcher, Department of History Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria - Andrzej Klimowski
Graphic Artist and a Designer - H. E. Amb. Asta Skaisgiryté Liauškiené
Ambassador of Lithuania to the United Kingdom - Aysha Khalid-Mahmood
Doctoral Researcher Arabic Typography and Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University - Prof. Dr. Charles Burnett
'Professor the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe', the Warburg Institute, University of London - Eric Joyce (MP)
Member of the British Parliament - The Hon. Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
Former Speaker of the Parliament of Luxemburg; Former Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs - Prof. Dr. Helen Gilbert
Professor of Theatre, Drama Department, Royal Holloway, University of London - Hywel Williams (MP)
Member of the British Parliament - Jonathan Myreson
British dramatist and novelist - Dr. Josh Abrams
Principal Lecturer, Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Roehampton - Dr. Marina Lambrou
Principal Lecturer in English Language and Communication, Kingston University - Martin Witts
Owner, Leicester Square Theatre - Miriam Halahmy
Author & Poet - Nick Brown (MP)
Member of the British Parliament; Former Government Chief Whip in the Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury - Sandra Shevey
Associate Tutor, British Film Institute - Prof. Dr. Shzr Tan
Professor, Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London - Sonja Prinz
Chairwoman, Global New Generation - Prof. Dr. Timon Screech
Professor, Department of the History of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies - William Arthurs
Editor, City Magazine
- Ahmed El Mahmoudy
Founder, ID Labs Art & Technology Solutions - Alex Kem
Organizer, the Kenako Festival, Afrika Medien Zentrum e.V. - Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi
President, AFROTAK Tv cyberNomads - Andrea Gisell Kizua
African Artist - Anna Shivute
Commissioner, the Namibian Film Commission - Dr. Asogwa Euphemia Chika
Lecturer and Head of Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba - Cornelia Hammelmann
Project Manager, Deutsche Filmförderungsanstal - Dagmar Dehmer
Journalist, Der Tagesspiegel - Dayo Balogun
Film Editor and Postproduction Consultant, H264 Media Limited - Emo Rugene
Actor - Hadja Kaba
Founder, Mama Afrika e.V. - Isona Admetila
Representative, World Cinema Fund - Prof. John A. Kantara
Professor for Journalism – DEKRA Hochschule Berlin, Author, Producer, Journalist - Dr. Kalakhi Mohamed
Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Morocco to Germany - Prof. Dr. Kishore Chakraborty
Director of Research - Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Leon Willems
Director, Free Press Unlimited - Marion Lieser
Managing Director of OXFAM Germany - Matthias Akaazua
Post Graduate Student of International Business Management (MBA), Girne American University; Certificate Student, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Michael Tecklenburg
Head, Africa Division and Coordinator, Deutsche Welle - H.E. Amb. Dr. Mohamed Abdelhamid Ibrahim Higazy
Ambassador of Egypt to Germany
