The International Symposia on Cultural Diplomacy 2016

"The Time is now: Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Unite the World's Cultures before Hard Power takes the Lead"

(Berlin, Sofia, Bucharest, London, New York City; April - August, 2016)

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:

Minister Farida Momand
Minister of Higher Education of Afghanistan		 President Emil Constantinescu
President, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy		 H.E. Dr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari
Minister; Qatar’s candidate for the position of Director General of UNESCO; Adviser at the Amiri Diwan
Stephan Mayer (MdB)
Member of the German Parliament 		Joachim Pfeiffer (MdB)
Member of the German Parliament		 Philipp Lengsfeld (MdB)
Member of the German Parliament
Amb. Gunter Mulack  
Executive Director, German Orient Institute in Berlin		 Dirk Niebel
Former German Minister of Economic Cooperation & Development		 SG Harald Kindermann
Secretary General, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
SG Abdelouahid Khouja
Secretary General, House of Councillors of Morocco		  Grand Mufti Selim Muça
Grand Mufti of the Muslim Community of Albania		 Speaker Safet Softić
Speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia & Herzegovina
Samir Barhoum
Chief Editor, the Jordan Times		 Faisal J. Abbas
Editor-in-Chief of Al Arabiya English 		Idriss Benarafa
Editor-in-Chief, The Moroccan Times
H. E. Amb. Jauhar Saleem
Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany 		Amb. Mohamed Kazem
Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt for a Culture of Dialogue 		Amb. Badr Abdelatty
Ambassador of Egypt to Germany
SG Fadi Khalaf
Secretary General, Arab Federation of Exchanges 		MP Mirsad Isaković
Chair of the Gender Equality Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia & Herzegovina		 Rashed Al Baloushi
CEO, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
 Hassan Diab
Former Minister of Education of Lebanon		 Prof. Ulrich Brueckner
Academic Director, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy		 Yasar Yakis
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey

Mohammed Abubaker Al Ghasani
Deputy Chairman of Majlis A'shura Council of Oman

MP Zuraida binti Kamaruddin
Member of the Parliament of Malaysia

 MP Dhiaa N. Al-Asadi
Member of the Parliament of Iraq

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