Democracy and Education

19th Forum 2000 Conference

Delegates


Marianne Abrahamsen
Associate Professor in Educational Science at the Institute of Cultural Sciences, University of Southern Denmark
Denmark

Rainer Adam
Regional Director, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Germany

Milos Alcalay
Former Ambassador to the UN
Venezuela

Leila Alieva
Political Scientist
Azerbaijan

Kenan Aliyev
Executive Editor, Current Time
Czech Republic/USA

Youssef Amrani
Diplomat, Politician
Morocco

Jaroslav Anděl
Artistic Director, DOX Centre
Czech Republic

Jan Baláč
President, Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society Czech Republic
Czech Republic

Péter Balász
Politician and Director, Center for European Enlargement Studies (CENS)
Hungary

Mikuláš Bek
Rector, Masaryk University
Czech Republic

Jonathan Benthal
Associate Fellow, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
United Kingdom

Ales Bialiatski
President, Viasna Human Rights Centre
Belarus

Martin Bútora
Sociologist, Institute for Public Affairs
Slovakia

Juan Pablo Cardenal
Journalist, writer and lecturer
Switzerland/Spain

Dita Charanzová
Member, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, European Parliament
Czech Republic

Alex Chow
Student activist
Hong Kong

Nicos Christodoulakis
Professor, Athens University of Economics, Former Minister of Finance
Greece

Natalia Churikova
Journalist, Ukrainian Service, RFE/RL
Czech Republic/Ukraine

Filip Chytrý
Technical Product Manager Security & Privacy, Avast Software
Czech republic

William Cook
Professor of History and Religion, State University of New York
USA

Steve Crawshaw
International advocacy director, Amnesty International

Manuel Silvestre Cuesta Morúa
Dissident
Cuba

Frederik Willem de Klerk
Former President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Republic of South Africa

Neelam Deo
Director, Gateway House
India

Oleg Derevianko
Deputy Minister of Education and Science
Ukraine

Nedim Dervišbegović
Multimedia Producer, Balkan Service, RFE/RL
Czech Republic/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jiří Dienstbier
Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation, Chairman of the Government Legislative Council
Czech Republic

Gabriela Dlouhá
Deputy Director, Prague Civil Society Centre
Czech Republic

Doris Donnelly
Director, Cardinal Suenens Center, John Carroll University
USA

Vít Dostál
Director, Association for International Affairs Research Center
Czech Republic

Vratislav Doubek
Historian and political scientist

Jiří Drahoš
President, Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic

Jeremy Druker
Executive Director, Transitions
Czech Republic/USA

Miroslav Dušek
Senior Director, Middle East and North Africa, World Economic Forum
Switzerland/Czech Republic

Filipp Dzyadko
Founder, Online Educational Project Arzamas
Russia

Konstantin von Eggert
Journalist and political commentator
Russia

Jørgen Ejbøl
Vice president of the board, Jyllands-Posten Foundation
Denmark

Mátyás Eörsi
Senior Advisor, Community of Democracies
Hungary

Lucia Faltinová
Political Scientist, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Slovak Republic

Petr Fiala
Political Scientist, Former Minister of Education
Czech Republic

Jaroslav Fidrmuc
Deputy Minister for General, Vocational and Further Education, Ministry of Education
Czech Republic

Randall K. Filer
President, CERGE-EI Foundation, Professor of Economics, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY
USA

Pavel Fischer
Former Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic

Paul Flather
Secretary General, Europaeum
United Kingdom

Pavel Franc
CEO, Frank Bold; Co-founder of the Reconstruction of the State Coalition
Czech Republic

Roland Freudenstein
Head of Research/Deputy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
Belgium

Ralf Fücks
President, Heinrich Böll Foundation
Germany

Štefan Füle
Former European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
Belgium/Czech Republic

Ahmed Galal
Economist
Egypt

Glenn Gebhard
Film Director
USA

Robin Gosejohann
Project Manager Europe, Erste Foundation
Austria

Altay Goyushov
Member of Board, REAL – Azerbaijani Opposition Movement
Azerbaijan

Marcel Granier
President, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV)
Venezuela

Carl Hahn
Chairman emeritus, Volkswagen Group
Germany

Barbara Haig
Deputy to the President for Policy and Strategy, National Endowment for Democracy
USA

Shadi Hamid
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
USA

Václav Hampl
Member of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic

Ivan M. Havel
Scientist
Czech Republic

Daniel Herman
Minister of Culture
Czech Republic

Yevhen Hlibovytsky
Founder, pro.mova
Ukraine

Jürgen Hoffmeister
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Germany

Nikola Hořejš
Campaign Manager, Reconstruction of the State
Czech Republic

Bektour Iskender
Founder, Blogging Community Kloop.kg, Kloop Journalism School
Kyrgyzstan

Beata Jaczewska
Executive Director, International Visegrad Fund
Poland

Matin Jäggle
Emeritus Dean, University of Vienna, Department of Theology
Austria

Yi-huah Jiang
Senior Advisor to the President, Former Prime Minister
Republic of China (Taiwan)

Sepideh Jodeyri
Poet, Translator
Czech Republic/Iran

Ondřej Juřík
Head, Latin American Program, People in Need
Czech Republic

Irena Kalhousová
Chief Analyst, Forum 2000 Foundation
Czech Republic

Hakim El Karoui
Consultant and Founder, Club XXIe Siècle
France/Tunisia

Bohumil Kartous
Head of Communications, EDUin
Czech Republic

Glenn Kates
Journalist, Managing Editor for Digital Media, RFE/RL
United States of America

Volodymyr Kazarin
Head of the Department for Russian and Foreign Literature, Taurida National Vernadsky University
Ukraine

Gilles Kepel
Political Scientist, Sciences Po
France

Zafarullah Khan
Executive Director, Centre for Civic Education Pakistan
Pakistan

Steve Killelea
Entrepreneur and philanthropist
Australia

Gordana Knezevic
Director, Balkan Service, RFE/RL
Bosnia and Herzegovina/Czech Republic

Petr Kolář
Former Ambassador to Russia
Czech Republic

Ctibor Košťál
Director, Slovak Governance Institute (SGI)
Slovakia

Sergii Kostynskyi
Member of Parliament
Ukraine

Dušan Kováč
Historian, Writer
Slovakia

Thomas Krüger
President, Federal Agency for Civic Education
Germany

Jakub Kulhánek
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic

Ivan Kurilla
Professor, European University at Saint Petersburg
Russia

Austėja Landsbergienė
CEO and Founder, Vaikystės Sodas
Lithuania

Klára Laurenčíková
Educational Expert, Former Deputy Minister of Education
Czech Republic

Sandor Lederer
Co-Founder and CEO, K-Monitor
Hungary

Antonio Ledezma
Mayor, Caracas (prisoner of conscience – unable to attend)
Venezuela

Taťána le Moigne
Country Director of Google Czech Republic & Slovakia
Czech Republic

Ondřej Liška
Director, Ashoka Czech Republic, Former Minister of Education
Czech Republic

Olga Lomová
Head, The Far East Studies Department, Charles University
Czech Republic

Jan Macháček
Chairman, Board of Directors, Václav Havel Library
Czech Republic

Alyona Marchkova
Activist, Director, Information and Legal Center Apriori
Moldova

Marco Antonio Fernández Martinéz
Research Professor, School of Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Mexico

Jacob Mchangama
Founder and CEO, Justitia
Denmark

Dora Leonor Mesa Crespo
Director, Cuban Association for the Development of Primary Education (ACDEI)
Cuba

Emin Milli
Exiled Dissident, Director, Online Meydan TV
Azerbaijan

Honegger Molina
President, Epékeina Foundation
Venezuela

Cyril Mooney
Principal, Loreto Day School
Ireland/India

Amin Mudaqiq
Director, Pakistan Service, RFE/RL
Pakistan

Jan Mühlfeit
Global Strategist, Former Chairman Europe, Microsoft Coorporation
Czech Republic

Surendra Munshi
Sociologist
India

Andrej Nosko
Program Director, Open Societ Think Tank Fund
Hungary

Tarek Osman
Author, Analyst
Egypt

Anders Østergaard
Documentarist
Denmark

Martin Palouš
President, International Platform for Human Rights in Cuba, Director, Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy, FIU
USA/Czech Republic

Šimon Pánek
Co-Founder and Director, People in Need
Czech Republic

Bogdan Patru
Stategy and Legal Affairs Director, Smartlink Communications
Romania

Nenad Pejic
Editor-in-Chief and co-CEO, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Czech Republic/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Andris Piebalgs
Member of Board, Global Fund Europe
Latvia

Ivan Pilip
Former Minister of Education
Czech Republic

Petr Pithart
Former Prime Minister
Czech Republic

Tomáš Pojar
Vice President for International Relations, CEVRO Institute
Czech Republic

Wojciech Przybylski
Editor in Chief, Res Publica Nowa
Poland

Pavel Pšeja
Member, Board of Directors, DEMAS
Czech Republic

Martin Půta
Governor, Liberec Region
Czech Republic

Silvie Pýchová
CEO, SKAV
Czech Republic

Iveta Radičová
Sociologist, Former Prime Minister
Slovakia

Daniela Retková
Special Programs Coordinator, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Czech Republic

Mykola Riabchuk
Political and Cultural Analyst
Ukraine

Věra Řiháčková
Senior Research Fellow, Europeum
Czech Republic

Libor Rouček
Former Member, European Parliament
Czech Republic

Jacques Rupnik
Political Scientist
France

Gabriel Salvia
Director, Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America
Argentina

Hrishabh Sandilya
Political Analyst
India

Andreas Schleicher
Director, Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD
Germany

Jiří Schneider
Director of Special Projects, Prague Security Studies Institute
Czech Republic

Karel Schwarzenberg
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic

Roger Scruton
Philosopher, Political Scientist
United Kingdom

Tomáš Sedláček
Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at ČSOB Bank, Lecturer at Charles University in Prague,
Czech Republic

Oana Serafim
Director, Moldova Service, RFE/RL
Moldova

Taus Serganova
Activist, Professor, Grozny State Oil and Technological University
Russia

Parth J. Shah
Founder President, Centre for Civil Society
India

Hussein Shobokshi
Businessman, Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic
Saudi Arabia

Mona Siddiqui
Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Ivana Skálová
Head, Eastern European Program, People in Need
Czech Republic

Jan Šnaidauf
Head of the Political and Economic Section, EU Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Czech Republic

Bohuslav Sobotka
Prime Minister
Czech Republic

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Professor of Middle East History, Brandeis University
United Statesof America

Michaela Šojdrová
Vice-Chair, Committee on Culture and Education
Czech Republic

Jan Sokol
Politician and Philosopher
Czech Republic

Manfred Spitzer
Director, Psychiatric University Hospital Ulm
Germany

Daniel Stach
Journalist, Czech Television
Czech republic

Krassen Stanchev
Associate Professor, Sofia Unversity and Board Chairman, Institute for Market Economics
Bulgaria

Ondřej Šteffl
Founder and CEO, Scio
Czech Republic

Gintaras Steponavicius
Former Minister of Education and Science
Lithuania

Václav Štětka
Sociologist
Czech Republic

Tamara Sujú
Human Rights Lawyer
Venezuela

Sandra Švaljek
Researcher, Former Deputy and Acting Mayor of Zagreb
Croatia

Jan Švejnar
Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University, IDEA/CERGE-EI
USA/Czech Republic

Pavel Svoboda
Chair, Legal Affairs Comittee, European Parliament
Czech Republic

Argentina Szabados
Chief of Mission of IOM German
Germany

Muhammad Tahir
Director, Turkmen Service, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Turkmenistan

Amin Tarzi
Director, Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University
United States of America

Pavel Telička
Member of the European Parliament and 2nd vice-president of the ALDE group
Czech Republic

Enrique ter Horst
Diplomat, Former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Venezuela

Galina Timchenko
Exiled Journalist, Executive Editor, Meduza.io
Russia

Rukiye Tinas
Assistant Professor, Eskisehir Osmangazi University
Turkey

Lilian Tintori
Human Rights Activist, Wife of Leopoldo López
Venezuela

Sayataw U Sein Di Ta
Abbot, Asia Light Monastery in Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Division
Burma

Rostislav Valvoda
Director, Prague Civil Society Centre
Czech Republic

Zsuzsanna Végh
Research Assistant, Center for EU Enlargement Studies, Central European University
Hungary

Ivan Vejvoda
Senior Vice-President, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Serbia

Viphandh Roengpithya
Founder and Chairman, Viptel Company
Thailand

Kumar Vishwanathan
Activist
Czech Republic

Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager
Grand Chancellor, Sovereign Order of Malta
Germany

Alexandr Vondra
Director, Prague Centre for Transatlantic Relations (PCTR)
Czech Republic

Vlaďka Votavová
Director, Association for International Affairs
Czech Republic

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

Gert Weisskirchen
Chair, Central European Future Forum
Germany

Ilona Fejér Wiss
President, The Behal Fejér Institute, Inc
United States of America

Michael Žantovský
Executive Director, Václav Havel Library,
Czech Republic

Lubomír Zaorálek
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic

Yevgeniy Zhovtis
Chair of the Board of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law
Kazakhstan