“I would like to thank my friend who always stands in solidarity with me, President Václav Havel, for his invitation to this important meeting.”
Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, Dissident, Cuba, 2007
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Participants

Prince Turki Al-Faisal

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

Saudi Arabia

Ammar Al-Hakim

Vice President of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council

Iraq

Oswaldo Alvarez Paz

Founder of the Venezuelan political party the People's Alliance

Venezuela

Robert R. Amsterdam

Attorney

United Kingdom

Maen Rashid Areikat

Palestine

Coordinator General, Negotiations Affairs Department of the PLO, Palestine

Jose Maria Argueta

Former (and first civilian) National Security Adviser of Guatemala

Guatemala

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

Historian, author and diplomat

Poland

David Brooks

Senior Advisor - Fresh Water, Friends of the Earth

Canada

Jan Bubeník

Founder of Bubenik Partners and Chairman of the Corporate Council of the Forum 2000 Foundation

Czech Republic

Anastasia Crickley

Chairperson, Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Ireland

Vladimír Dlouhý

Economist, International Advisor of Goldman Sachs

Czech Republic

Doris Donnelly

Director, The Cardinal Suenens Center, John Carroll University

USA

Gabriel Eichler

Founder of Benson Oak

USA/Czech Republic

Tomáš Etzler

Journalist, reporter, editor and producer

Czech Republic

Ján Figeľ

European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth

Slovakia

Vicente Fox

Former President of Mexico (2000-2006)

Mexico

Mohammad Gawdat

Managing Director for Emerging Markets, Google

Egypt

Fara Gaye

Sufi sheikh involved in projects for Muslim-Jewish dialogue

Senegal

Mary Ann Glendon

The US Ambassador to the Holy See

USA

André Glucksmann

Philosopher

France

Richard Graber

US Ambassador to the Czech Republic

USA

Dagmar Grossman

CEO of Grossman Jet Service

Austria/Czech Republic

Tomáš Halík

Member of the Program Committee, Forum 2000 Foundation

Czech Republic

Lee Harris

Essayist and contributing editor of Tech Central Statio

USA

Václav Havel

Former President

Czech Republic

Jacques Huntzinger

Former French Ambassador to Israel

France

Frederick F. Chien

Cathay Charity Foundation

Taiwan

Robin Christopher

Secretary General of the Global Leadership Foundation

United Kingdom

Bruce Jackson

Founder and President of the Project on Transitional Democracies

USA

Josef Jařab

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

Czech Republic

Mark Juergensmeyer

Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies

USA

Garry Kasparov

Opposition Leader

Russia

Mikhail Kasyanov

Former Russian Prime Minister

Russia

Frank Lampl

Life President, Bovis Lend Lease

United Kingdom

Charles Levesque

Chief Operating Officer of the Interfaith Youth Core

USA

Ondřej Liška

Minister of Education, Youth and Sport

Czech Republic

Leopoldo López

Mayor of the Municipality of Chacao of Caracas

Venezuela

Irshad Manji

Senior Fellow, European Foundation for Democracy, Brussels

Canada

Don McKinnon

Former Secretary General of Commonwealth

New Zealand

Vladimir Petit Medina

Political Analyst

Venezuela

Robert Ménard

Journalist, founder of Reporters Without Borders

France

Adam Michnik

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

Poland

Alyaksandar Milinkevich

Opposition Leader

Belarus

Carlos Alberto Montaner

Political analyst

Cuba/Spain

Mike Moore

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

New Zealand

Jan Mühlfeit

Chairman Europe, Microsoft Corporation

Czech Republic

Ashis Nandy

Political Psychologist and Sociologist of Science

India

Jacob Nell

TNK-BP, Moscow

United Kingdom

Gabriel Nissim

Head of The World Catholic Association for Communication (SIGNIS)

France

Jose de Jesus Noguera

Opposition politician

Venezuela

Jean-Francois Ott

CEO and Founder of ORCO Property Group

France

Oswaldo Payá Sardińas

Cuban political activist and dissident

Cuba

Zoya Phan

International Coordinator, Burma Campaign

Burma/United Kingdom

Timothy Phillips

Founding co-chair of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition of Harvard University

USA

Jorge Pizarro Soto

President of the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO)

Chile

Alexandr Podrabinek

Journalist and human rights activist

Russia

Jerome Delli Priscoli

Senior advisor on international water issues at the U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources (IWR)

USA

Adam Roberts

President of the British Academy

United Kingdom

Yohei Sasakawa

Chairman, The Nippon Foundation

Japan

Tomáš Sedláček

Chief Macroeconomic Strategist, ČSOB Bank

Czech Republic

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

Ivo Šilhavý

Head of the Representative Office in Ramallah

Czech Republic

Petr Šmída

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alfa-Bank

Czech Republic/Russia

Radek Špicar

Director of External Relations at Škoda Auto

Czech Republic

Jan Švejnar

Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Chairman, CERGE-EI

USA/Czech Republic

Jan Urban

Journalist

Czech Republic

Nathalie Isabelle Vogel

Political scientist and head of the Prague Office of the World Security Network Foundation

France/Germany

Tomáš Vrba

Chairman of the Board, Forum 2000 Foundation

Czech Republic

Rama Yade

Secretary of State in charge of foreign affairs and human rights

France

Liduine Zumpolle

Coordinator of the Latin America Programme, Pax Christi

Netherlands

Michael Žantovský

Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Czech Republic

2008

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