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James Zogby, Founder and President of the Arab American Institute, 2007
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Participants

Tariq Jawaid Alam

Students’ Forum 2000 delegate

Pakistan

Yousif al-Khoei

Iraqi-born Director of the London based Al Khoei Foundation

United Kingdom

Mark Azzopardi

Students’ Forum 2000 delegate

Malta

Andris Barblan

Historian and political scientist, Secretary General of the Association of European Universities

Switzerland

El Hassan bin Talal

Prince

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Josep Bricall

Former President of the Association of European Universities

France

Fritjof Capra

Physicist and systems theorist

USA

Lord Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf

Political scientist and sociologist

Germany

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader and Head of State, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Tibet

Joyce Davis

Director of Broadcasting of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague

Czech Republic

Stephen M. Davis

Specialist on international corporate governance

USA

Thomas C. Dawson

Economist and Director of the External Relations Department of the International Monetary Fund

USA

James Deane

Founding member and Executive Director of the Panos Institute

United Kingdom

Frederik Willem de Klerk

Former President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Republic of South Africa

Maria Celina del Felice

Students’ Forum 2000 delegate

Argentina

Guido de Marco

Former President of Malta

Malta

Lord Desai of St Clement Danes

Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics

United Kingdom

Thomas A. Dine

President of Radio Free Europe

USA

Albert Friedlander

Rabbi of the Westminster Synagogue in London

United Kingdom

Jostein Gaarder

Writer

Norway

Ivan Gabal

Sociologist

Czech Republic

Peter Gabriel

World-renowned singer and founder of WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance org.)

United Kingdom

Archbishop Joseph Ganda

Archbishop of Freetown and Bo

Sierra Leone

Anthony Giddens

Sociologist, Director of the London School of Economics

United Kingdom

Tomáš Halík

Member of the Program Committee, Forum 2000 Foundation

Czech Republic

Hazel Henderson

Futurologist

USA

Takeaki Hori

Antropologist and advisor to the President of the Nippon Foundation

Japan

Mihoko Ito

Students’ Forum 2000 delegate

Japan

Asma Jahangir

Lawyer, Chair of the Human Rights Commision

Pakistan

Josef Jařab

Former senator and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security

Czech Republic

Ivan Klíma

Writer

Czech Republic

Serguey Kovalyov

Deputy Russia´s State Duma and human rights activist

Russia

Manfred A. Max-Neef

Rector Universidad Austral de Chile

H.E. Sheikh Abbas Mohajerani

Professor and leading Iranian-born Islamic scholar

Iran

Jiří Musil

Professor of Sociology at Charles University, Former President of the European Sociological Association and UN and UNESCO Consultant on Urban Issues

Czech Republic

Colm O’Cinneide

Students’ Forum 2000 delegate

Ireland

Shimon Peres

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Israel

Mariano Plotkin

Director of New York University in Buenos Aires

Argentina

Martin Porubjak

Theatre director and politician

Slovak Republic

Jacques Rupnik

Political Scientist

France

Yohei Sasakawa

Chairman, The Nippon Foundation

Japan

Peter Scott

Vice Chancellor at Kingston University

United Kingdom

Takashi Shiraishi

Professor of Koyto University

Japan

Karan Singh

Former government Minister and Ambassador

India

Mário Soares

Socialist politician and lawyer, former President

Portugal

Wole Soyinka

Author and first African Nobel Laureate in Literature

Nigeria

Martin Jan Stránský

Neurologist and publisher

Czech Republic

Hanna Suchocka

Minister of Justice and former Prime Minister

Poland

Miklós Sükösd

Sociologist

Hungary

Veton Surroi

Writer; Editor in Chief of Koha Ditore, the major newspaper in Kosovo

Albania

Gavan Titley

Students’ Forum 2000 delegate

Ireland

Dubravka Ugrešić

Writer

Croatia

Hans van Ginkel

Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo

Japan

Sir Arthur George Weidenfeld

Journalist and publisher

United Kingdom

2000

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Nippon Foundation

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