"A World Without Walls":
An International Congress on "Soft Power", Cultural Diplomacy and Interdependence
(Berlin; November 6th - 9th, 2009)
List of Speakers
- Ségolène Royal
President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council; Former Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party of France - President Dr. Alfredo Palacio
Former President of Ecuador - President Emil Constantinescu
Former President of Romania - Janez Janša
Former Prime Minister of Slovenia; President of the Slovenian Democratic Party - Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Former Prime Minister of Poland; Former Foreign Minister of Poland - David Trimble*
Former First Minister of Northern Ireland; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1998 (*Paper to be delivered) - Mike Kenneth Moore
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Former Director General of the World Trade Organization - Alfred Sant
Former Prime Minister of Malta; Currently Member of Malta’s Parliament - Jack McConnell
MSP; Former First Minister of Scotland - President Sir James Richard Marie Mancham
Founding President of the Republic of Seychelles - Luc Van den Brande
Former Minister-President of Flanders - Mirko Tomassoni
Member of the San Marino Grand and Central Council; Former Captain Regent of San Marino - Radmila Sekerinska
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia - Dr. Miomir Žužul
Former Foreign Minister of Croatia - Senator the Hon. Alan Baird Ferguson
The 22nd President of the Australian Senate - László Kovács
European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary. - Minister Dr. Igor Lukšič
Minister of Education and Sport of Slovenia - Ivaylo Kalfin
MEP; Former Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs - Nouzha Skalli
Moroccan Minister of Social Development, Family, and Solidarity - Dr. Vasile Puşcaş
Romanian Minister for European Affairs - Dr. Erkki Tuomioja
Member of Finnish Parliament, Former Finnish Foreign Minister (2000 - 2007) - Delia-Domingo Albert
Ambassador of the Philippines to the Federal Republic of Germany, Former Foreign Minister of the Philippines - Ioannis Kasoulides
MEP, EPP Group Vice-Chairman, Former Foreign Minister of Cyprus - H.E. Yasar Yakis
Turkish MP, Former Foreign Minister of Turkey and Chairman of the European Union Harmonization Commission of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey - Dr. Salomon Isaac Passy
Former Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, and the Chairman-in-Offce of the OSCE - Jytte Hilden
Former Minister of Culture of Denmark - Gerassimos D. Arsenis
Greek Former Minister of Defense - Dr. Jo Ritzen
Former Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science; President of Universiteit Maastricht - Erna Hennicot Schoepges
European MP; Former Luxembourgian Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs - Marina Pendes
Deputy Minister of Defense of Bosnia-Herzegovina - Ana Trisic Babic
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia & Herzegovina - Anthony Suau
Photographer, 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer - Dr. András Simonyi
Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from 2002-2007 - Dr. Benjamin Barber
Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, Author of bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld - Martin Hope
Director Benelux and EU office at British Council Currently; Former Director British Council Moscow - Meir Shlomo
Strategic Adviser, the Public Diplomacy Division of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Israel - Merethe Stagetorn
Defense Lawyer for the Danish Supreme Court - Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Croatian Ambassador to the United Sates - Amb. Carlo Ungaro
Former Italian Ambassador, adviser to the Italian contingent of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Herat, Afghanistan
