Delegates
Shahira Amin
Journalist
Egypt
George Andreopoulos
Professor of Political Science, City University of New York
USA
Uzi Arad
Former National Security Advisor
Israel
Anna Teresa Arco
Chief Feature Writer, The Catholic Herald
United Kingdom
José Maria Argueta
Secretary of Strategic Intelligence
Guatemala
Aung San Suu Kyi
Political Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Burma
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
Sultan Barakat
Director, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York
United Kingdom/Jordan
Ladislav Bartoš
EHSS Manager, Veolia Voda
Czech Republic
Prince Hassan bin Talal
Chairman, West Asia-North Africa Forum
Jordan
William Browder
Founder and CEO, Hermitage Capital Management
United Kingdom
Alan Brown
Group Chief Investment Officer, Schroder Investment Management
United Kingdom
Jan Bubeník
Chairman, Corporate Council, Forum 2000 Foundation
Czech Republic
Martin Bursík
Former Deputy Prime Minister
Czech Republic
Natalia Churikova
Journalist, Ukrainian Service, RFE/RL
Czech Republic/Ukraine
Hassane Cisse
Deputy General Counsel, Knowledge and Research, The World Bank
Senegal
William Cook
Professor of History and Religion, State University of New York
USA
Marcus Cornaro
Director, Development and Cooperation, European Commission
Belgium/Austria
Ivan Chvatík
Director, Jan Patočka Archive
Czech Republic
Kenneth W. Dam
Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago
USA
Bohdan Danylyshyn
Former Minister for Economy
Czech Republic/Ukraine
Francis Deng
Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations
USA/Sudan
Hernando de Soto
President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Peru
Geshe Tenzin Dhargye
Buddhist Scholar
Austria/Tibet
Avi Dichter
Former Minister of Internal Security
Israel
Mou-Shih Ding
Senior Advisor to the President
Taiwan
Vladimír Dlouhý
Economist, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs
Czech Republic
Luboš Dobrovský
Former Ambassador to Russia
Czech Republic
Jiří Drahoš
President, Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic
Jan Dusík
Deputy Director and Officer-in-Charge, UNEP Regional Office for Europe
Switzerland/Czech Republic
Vladimíra Dvořáková
Head of Department of Political Sciences, University of Economics, Prague
Czech Republic
Mustafa Dzhemiliev
Chairman, Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Member of the Parliament
Ukraine
Peter Eigen
Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Council, Transparency International
Germany
Norman L. Eisen
Former Ambassador to the Czech Republic
USA
Gareth Evans
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chancellor, Australian National University
Australia
Gregory Feifer
Senior Correspondent, RFE/RL
Czech Republic/USA
Randall K. Filer
President, CERGE-EI Foundation, Professor of Economics, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY
USA
Kiichi Fujiwara
Professor of International Politics, University of Tokyo
Japan
Mariko Gakiya
Advisor, The Harvard International Negotiation Program
USA/Japan
Vladimír Galuška
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic
Steven Gan
Editor, Malaysiakini.com
Malaysia
Mohammad Gawdat
Managing Director for Emerging Markets, Google
Egypt
Jared Genser
Founder, Freedom Now
USA
Yakov Gilinsky
Professor of Criminology, Herzen State Pedagogical University
Russia
André Glucksmann
Philosopher
France
Vartan Gregorian
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
USA
Robert Hahn
Director of Economics, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University
United Kingdom
Tomáš Halík
Sociologist, President, Czech Christian Academy
Czech Republic
Jiro Hanyu
Chairman, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Japan
Václav Havel
In Memoriam
Howard Hensel
Professor of Politico-Military Affairs, Air War College
USA
Jerry Hirsch
Philanthropist, Chairman and Founder, The Lodestar Foundation
USA
Mikuláš Huba
Environmentalist, Deputy Director, Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovakia
Motoshige Itoh
Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Japan
Maria Ivanova
Professor of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts
USA/Bulgaria
Atifete Jahjaga
President
Kosovo
Karel Janeček
Businessman, Philanthropist, Anti-Corruption Activist
Czech Republic
Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Professor of Political Science, Sabanci University
Turkey
Martin Kameník
Project Coordinator, Oživení
Czech Republic
Vadim Klyuvgant
Lawyer
Russia
Jiří Knitl
Manager, Transparency and Public Responsibility Program, Open Society Fund Prague
Czech Republic
Yakov Kostyukovsky
Criminologist, Sociological Institute, Academy of Science
Russia
Karel Kovanda
Former Deputy Director-General, DG External Relations, European Commission
Belgium/Czech Republic
Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Professor of Anthropology, Auburn Montgomery
USA
Zdeněk Kudrna
Economist, Institut für europäische Integrationsforschung
Austria/Czech Republic
John Agyekum Kufuor
Former President
Ghana
Monika Ladmanová
Chair of the Board, Open Society Fund
Czech Republic
Hana Lešenarová
Associate Director, Control Risks Deutschland
Germany/Czech Republic
Pierre Lévy
Ambassador to the Czech Republic
France
Ondřej Liška
Director, Ashoka Czech Republic, Former Minister of Education
Czech Republic
Bobo Lo
Independent Scholar and Consultant on Russia and China
United Kingdom/Australia
Jan Macháček
Chairman, Board of Directors, Václav Havel Library
Czech Republic
Václav Malý
Titular Bishop of Marcelliana and Auxiliary Bishop of Prague
Czech Republic
James Mancham
Founding President
Republic of Seychelles
Michael Melchior
Politician, Chief Rabbi of Norway
Israel
Ales Michalevic
Politician, Former Presidential Candidate
Belarus
Wolfgang Michalski
Managing Director, WM International, Former Chief Advisor to the Secretary General of the OECD
Germany
Adam Michnik
Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
Poland
Bedřich Moldan
Founder and Director, Environment Center, Charles University
Czech Republic
Mark L. Movsesian
Director, Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s University
USA
Surendra Munshi
Sociologist
India
Aryeh Neier
President, Open Society Foundations
USA
Boris Nemtsov
Economist, Politician
Russia
Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President
Nigeria
Cem Özdemir
Co-Chair, Alliance 90/The Greens
Germany
Šimon Pánek
Co-Founder and Director, People in Need
Czech Republic
Oswaldo Payá Sardińas
Political Activist and Dissident
Cuba
Josef Pazderka
Journalist, Czech Television
Czech Republic
Jiří Pehe
Director, New York University, Prague
Czech Republic
Thomas Pogge
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
USA
Karel Randák
Former Director General, Office for Foreign Relations and Information
Czech Republic
Tatsiana Reviaka
Human Rights Activist
Belarus
Omar Rifai
Executive Director, West Asia-North Africa Forum
Jordan
Gérard Roland
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
USA
Jacques Rupnik
Political Scientist
France
Pavel Rychetský
President, Constitutional Court
Czech Republic
Mikheil Saakashvili
President
Georgia
Yohei Sasakawa
Chairman, The Nippon Foundation
Japan
Jiří Schneider
Director of Special Projects, Prague Security Studies Institute
Czech Republic
Uri Shamir
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Stephanie Shirley
British Government's Founding Ambassador for Philanthropy
United Kingdom
Jiřina Šiklová
Sociologist
Czech Republic
Ivo Šilhavý
Former head of the Representative Office in Ramallah
Czech Republic
Tetsushi Sonobe
Program Director, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Japan
Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, Professor, Columbia University
USA
Jan Švejnar
Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University, IDEA/CERGE-EI
USA/Czech Republic
Erik Tabery
Editor-in-Chief, Respekt
Czech Republic
Frans Timmermans
Politician, Diplomat
The Netherlands
Zdeněk Tůma
Former Governor, Czech National Bank, KPMG
Czech Republic
Jan Urban
Journalist
Czech Republic
Magdaléna Vášáryová
Politician, Diplomat
Slovakia
Günter Virt
Professor of Theology, University of Vienna
Austria
Marites Vitug
Journalist, Chair, Advisory Board, Newsbreak
Philippines
Tomáš Vrba
Chairman, Board of Directors, Forum 2000 Foundation
Czech Republic
Christopher Walker
Executive Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy
USA
Susan E. Walton
Board Member, CERGE-EI Foundation
USA
Laurent Weill
Professor of Economics, University of Strasbourg
France
Mai Yamani
Author, Broadcaster and Lecturer
United Kingdom
Grigory Yavlinsky
Economist, Politician
Russia
Michael Žantovský
Executive Director, Václav Havel Library,
Czech Republic
Philip Zimbardo
Psychologist
USA
