Speakers & Delegates

Speakers during the forum will include leading politicians, senior diplomats, governmental officials, senior academics, 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 for the conference will include among others the following dignitaries:

François Fillon Prime Minister of France (2007-12)	Irina Bokova Director-General of UNESCO 2009-17	Mary Lou McDonald President of the Sinn Féin Party, Ireland
Dalia Grybauskaitė President of Lithuania (2009-19)	Michael Howard Leader of the UK Conservative Party (2003-5)	Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca President of Malta (2014-19)
Sahra Wagenknecht Member of the German Parliament	Peer Steinbrück Chancellor-Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (2013)	Thomas Silberhorn Member of the German Parliament
María Elena Agüero Secretary General of the Club de Madrid	Michèle Alliot-Marie Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France	Nicola Beer Vice-President of the European Parliament
Moncef Marzouki President of Tunisia 2011-14	Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Jarwan President of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, UAE	Hassan Diab Prime Minister of Lebanon 2020-21
Gjorge Ivanov President of North Macedonia (2009-19)	Pedro Silva Pereira Vice-President of the European Parliament	Emil Constantinescu President of Romania 1996-2000
Eva-Maria Liimets Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia	Denitsa Dimitrova Simeonova Chairperson of the Committee on EU Affairs of Bulgaria	Estelle Youssouffa Member of the National Assembly of France
Kremena Milenova Kuneva Member of the Bulgarian National Assembly	Salima Belhaj Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands	Lina Lopes Member of the Assembly of Portugal
Ali Ahmad Jalali Former Interior Minister of Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai Former President of Afghanistan	Mohammad Hanif Atmar Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan
Hans Köchler President of the International Progress Organization (IPO)	Supachai Panitchpakdi Former Director General of the WTO	Yehuda Bauer Former Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research (Yad Vashem)
Arusyak Julhakyan Member of the Parliament of Armenia	Jorien Wuite Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands	Karin Kneissl Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria
Klotilda Bushka Member of the Parliament of Albania	Sophia Voultepsi Member of the Parliament of Greece	Pernille Weiss Member of the European Parliament for Denmark
Dragoljub Popovic Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights	Michael Lederer Executive Vice President of International Affairs & Executive Education, Furtwangen University	Uli Brückner Jean Monnet Professor For European Studies, Stanford University Berlin
Tomáš Zdechovský Member of the European Parliament for Czech Republic	Małgorzata Tracz Member of the Polish Parliament	Göran Lambertz Former Chancellor of Justice of Sweden
Mmantsetsa Marope Former General Director of the IBE-UNESCO	Rui Duarte Barros Former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau	Nouzha Skalli Former Minister of Social Development, Family, and Solidarity of Morocco