“Today it is very necessary to have a GLOBAL debate on the future of our civilization. Your Forum 2000 Conferences are in my view an essential part of this discussion.”
Wolfgang Schüssel, Austria´s federal Chancellor, 2006
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Participants

Tahir Abbas

Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham

United Kingdom

Farish Ahmad-Noor

Researcher

Malaysia / Germany

Madeleine Albright

Former Secretary of State

USA

Prince Turki Al-Faisal

Chairman of the Board of The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Saudi Arabia

Nader Saleem Al-Khateeb

Director, Friends of the Earth

Palestine

Jitzschak Alster

Advocate, Shimoni, Alster & Raziel

Israel

Christiane Amanpour

Chief International Correspondent, CNN

USA

Shlomo Avineri

Director of the Institute for the European Studies

Israel

Hüseyin Bağci

Professor, Middle East Technical University

Turkey

Miriam Balaban

Secretary General, European Desalination Society

Italy

Leszek Balcerowicz

Former President of the National Bank

Poland

Mohamad Bashar Arafat

President, Civilisation Exchange and Cooperation Foundation

USA

Pavel Bém

Lord Mayor of Prague

Czech Republic

Murad Bino

Director, Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Management

Jordan

Lajos Bokros

CEO, Central European University, Fomer Minister of Finance

Hungary

Martin Bursík

Minister of Environment

Czech Republic

Martin Bútora

Sociologist, Former Ambassador to the USA

Slovakia

Kim Campbell

Former Prime Minister

Canada

Humberto Celli

Former President of the Latin American Parliament

Venezuela

Vojtěch Cepl

Former Judge of the Constitutional Court

Czech Republic

Yavuz Çubukcu

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Turkey

Gábor Demszky

Lord Mayor of Budapest

Hungary

Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville

Attorney, Philanthropist

France

Jayantha Dhanapala

Diplomat, Former Candidate for UN Secretary General

Sri Lanka

Jiří Dienstbier

Former Czechoslovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Czech Republic

Philip Dimitrov

Former Prime Minister

Bulgaria

Doris Donnelly

Director, The Cardinal Suenens Center, John Carroll University

USA

Shirin Ebadi

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Iran

Gabriel Eichler

Founder of Benson Oak

USA/Czech Republic

Petr Gandalovič

Minister of Agriculture

Czech Republic

Jeffrey Gedmin

President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Czech Republic/USA

Ronald E. Gerevas

Former President and CEO, Heidrick&Struggles

USA

Wolfgang Gerhardt

President of the Board of Directors, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung

Germany

André Glucksmann

Philosopher

France

Vartan Gregorian

President of Carnegie Corporation of New York

USA

Tomáš Halík

Member of the Program Committee, Forum 2000 Foundation

Czech Republic

Faouzia Hariche

Councillor for Youth and Public Education, Brussels

Belgium

Bambang Harymurti

Editor-in-Chief of TEMPO Group

Indonesia

Václav Havel

Former President

Czech Republic

Azhar Hussain

Vice President of International Center for Religion & Diplomacy

USA

Robin Christopher

Secretary General of the Global Leadership Foundation

United Kingdom

Martin Jahn

Member of the Board of Management, Škoda Auto

Czech Republic

Josef Jařab

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

Czech Republic

Michaëlle Jean

Governor General

Canada

Mats Karlsson

Country Director for Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, World Bank

Sweden

Jan Kasl

Fomer Lord Mayor of Prague

Czech Republic

Afzal Khan

Former Lord Mayor of Manchester

United Kingdom

Ján Kubiš

Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Switzerland/Slovakia

Ricardo Lagos

Former President

Chile

Frank Lampl

Life President, Bovis Lend Lease

United Kingdom

Graham Mackay

CEO of SABMiller

Republic of South Africa/United Kingdom

Kishore Mahbubani

Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Singapore

David Martin

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

United Kingdom

Raja Miah

Director, PeaceMaker

United Kingdom

Adam Michnik

Editor-in-Chief of the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper in Poland

Poland

Alyaksandar Milinkevich

Opposition Leader

Belarus

Bedřich Moldan

Senator, Chairman of the European Environment Agency

Czech Republic

Jan Mühlfeit

Chairman Europe, Microsoft Corporation

Czech Republic

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

Viktor Orbán

Leader of FIDESZ, Former Prime Minister

Hungary

Oswaldo Payá Sardińas

Cuban political activist and dissident

Cuba

Ségolène Royal

Former Presidential Candidate, Parti Socialiste

France

Jacques Rupnik

Political Scientist

France

Mike Short

CEO of Pilsner Urquell

Great Britain/Czech Republic

Karel Schwarzenberg

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Czech Republic

Trudy Stevenson

Opposition Politician

Zimbabwe

Aung San Suu Kyi

Opposition Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Burma

Petr Šimůnek

Editor-in-Chief of Hospodářské noviny

Czech Republic

Shimon Tal

CEO, Tal ConTent

Israel

Jan Urban

Journalist

Czech Republic

Magdaléna Vášáryová

Honorary President, Slovak Foreign Policy Association

Slovakia

Alexandr Vondra

Member, Senate of the Parliament

Czech Republic

Nicholas Winton

Guest of Honour

United Kingdom

Aaron T. Wolf

Professor, Oregon State University

USA

Paul Wolfowitz

Academic, diplomat, policymaker, and political and military strategist

USA

Grigory Yavlinsky

Economist and Politician

Russia

Ghalymzhan Zhaqiyanov

Oppositon Leader

Kazakhstan

James J. Zogby

Founder and President, Arab American Institute

USA

Michael Žantovský

Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Czech Republic

2007

Supported by:

Nippon Foundation

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