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World Forum on Democracy

 

ATTENDEES LIST

Kamal Abbas, General Coordinator, Center for Trade Union and Workers' Services, Egypt
Moncef Achour, Vice-President, Organisation Tunisienne de l'education, Tunisia
Kenneth Adelman, Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Freedom House, USA
Jamal Adimi, Secretary General, Forum for Civil Society, Yemen
Jill Adler, Director, East-West Parliamentary Practice Project, The Netherlands
Jean-Gardy Ady, General Secretary, Comite de Presse pour l'Action Civique, Haiti
Mahnaz Afkhami, President, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace, USA
Saida Agrebi, Deputy, Tunisian Mothers' Association, Tunisia
Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, USA
Egidijus Aleksandravicius, Chairman, Open Society Institute-Lithuania, Lithuania
Raul Alfonsin, Former President of Argentina and President de la Union Civica Radical, Comite Nacional de la Union Civica Radical, Argentina
Ahmad Al-Khateeb, Former Member of Parliament, Kuwait
Saeda Al-Kilani, Director, Arab Archives Institute, Jordan
Nadia Hshem Aloul, President, The National Society for the Enhancement of Freedom and Democracy, Jordan
Faris Alsaqaf, President, Future Studies Center, Yemen
Jugnee Amarsanaa, Member, Constitutional Court, Mongolia
Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations,
Ion Anton, President, International Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Romania
Genaro Arriagada, Member of the Board, Banco del Estado de Chile, Chile
Nwe Aung, European Representative, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Germany
Faiza Azouz, Vice President, Union Nationale de la Femme Tunisienne, Tunisia
Azyumardi Azra, Rector, State Institute for Islamic Studies, Indonesia
Sabit Baghirov, President, Entrepreneurship Development Foundation, Azerbaijan
Nancy Bakir, Director General, Human Rights Department, Prime Ministry, Jordan
Obede Baloi, Interim Deputy Director for Research, Training and Research Unity on Social Science, University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
Linas Balsys, Senior Editor, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, Lithuania
Ned Bandler, Vice Chairman of the Board, Freedom House, USA
Jean Bandler, Professor of Social Work, New York University, USA
Bette Bao Lord, Chairman, Freedom House, USA
Benjamin Barber, Director, The Walt Whitman Center, Rutgers University, USA
Mieczysław B±k, President, Institute for Private Enterprise and Democracy, Poland
Seilam Bechaev, Vice Chairman of Parliament, Parliament of the Chechen Republic Ichkeriya, Poland
Bakhytzhamal Bekturganova, President, Association of Sociologists and Politologists, Kazakhstan
Ali Belhaj, President, Association 2020, Morocco
Cesar Beltran, Public Affairs Officer, US Embassy - Warsaw, Poland
Levan Berdzenishvili, Director General, National Library, Georgia
Judith Bingham, President, Association Tocqueville, France
Oinihol Bobonazarova, Chief, Tajik Center of Human Rights, Tajikistan
Henryka Bochniarz, President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers, Poland
Simone Bodemo, Secretary General, Women's Network for Peace and Democracy, Central African Republic
Donald Bohler, Vice President for Central Europe, Lockheed Martin, Poland
John Bohn, Chairman of the Board, Center for International Private Enterprise, USA
Nathalie Bolgert, Director, PAFPIO, Poland
John Bolton, Senior Vice President, American Enterprise Institute, USA
Dmitriy Bondarenko, Coordinator, Civil Initiative Charter 97, Belarus
Jakub Boratynski, European Program Director, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Robert Borden, Chairman, Bumper Development Corporation, Ltd., Canada
John Brademas, Chairman, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Allan Brewer-Carias, Professor, Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela
Kay Brophy, Chairperson, Executive Council, Fine Gael, Ireland
Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Poland
Alexandru Cantir, President, Committee for Freedom of the Press, Moldova
Judy Cavanagh, Deputy Minister, Office of the Premier, Canada
Mikhail Chachkhunashvili, Executive Director, Open Society Georgia Foundation, Georgia
King-yuh Chang, Professor and Chairman, Chinese Eurasian Education Foundation, Taiwan
Eric Chenoweth, Co-Director, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, USA
Kavi Chongkittavorn, Executive Director, The Nation, Thailand
Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, Former President, Croatian Helsinki Committee, Croatia
Wlodzmierz Cimoszewicz, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Poland
Sean Cleary, Managing Director, Think Tools A.G., Switzerland
Jose Conde Rodrigues, Socialist International, Portugal
Timothy Cooper, Ambassador-at-Large, China Democracy Party, USA
Lynn Costa, Program Coordinator, Center for International Private Enterprise, USA
Corina Cretu, Member, Scientific Council, Romanian Institute for Social Democratic Studies, Romania
Nexhat Daci, President, Academy of Science and Arts, Kosovo
Annette Dahlstrom, Programme Officer, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sweden
Marek D±browski, Professor, CASE Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland
James Denton, Executive Director, Freedom House, USA
Antonio Di Pietro, Member, Italian Senate, Italy
Larry Diamond, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Co-editor, Journal of Democracy, USA
Nadia Diuk, Senior Program Officer for Europe and New Independent States, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Zlatko Dizdarevic, Former Editor, Svijet, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Ivan Doherty, Director of Political Party Programs, National Democratic Institute, USA
Jovan Donev, Director, Euro-Balkan Institute, Macedonia
Peter Eigen, Chairman, Transparency International, Germany
Jesus Estanislao, Professor, University of Asia and the Pacific, Philippines
Benjamin Fernandez, President, Fundacion Libre, Paraguay
John Fox, Director, Washington Office, Open Society Institute, USA
William Frej, Mission Director, United States Agency for International Development, Poland
Paul Freston, Lecturer in Sociology, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil
Francis Fukuyama, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA
Erkin Gadirov, Lecturer in Law, Baku State University, Azerbaijan
Chhiv Kek Galabru, President, Cambodian League for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights LICADHO, Cambodia
Aaron Gana, Executive Director, African Centre for Democratic Governance, Nigeria
Vahid Gaziyev, Director, INAM Center for Pluralism, Azerbaijan
Bronsilaw Geremek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Poland
Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Yash Ghai, Professor, University of Hong Kong, China
Mridula Ghosh, Adviser, United Nations Development Program, Ukraine
Carolyn Gomes, Chairperson, Jamaicans for Justice, Jamaica
Zdravko Grebo, Law Center, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Vesna Grubic, President, Croatian Law Center, Croatia
Ludmila Gryaznova, Member of the Organizing Committee, Civil Initiative Charter 97, Belarus
Marian Grynberg, Professor, Vice President of Foundation for Polish Science, Foundation for Polish Science, Poland
Zoltan Guba, Secretary General, Democracy after Communism Foundation, Hungary
Habib Guiza, President, Association Club Mohamed Ali de la Culture Ouvriere, Tunisia
Nasser Hadian, Professor of Political Science, Tehran University, Iran
Barbara Haig, Director of Programs, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Zuhra Halimova, Executive Director, Open Society Institute, Tajikistan
Istvan Haller, Program Coordinator, Pro Europa League, Romania
Heiner Hanggi, Senior Research Fellow, Geneva Center for Security Policy, Switzerland
Mary Harney, Leader, Progressive Democrats Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, Ireland
Bambang Harymurti, Editor in Chief, Tempo, Indonesia
Istvan Hegedus, Member of the Board, Hungarian News Agency, Hungary
Keith Henderson, Co-Director, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American Univerity, USA
Mara Hernandez Estrada, Coordinator of Mexicans Abroad for the Campaign Committee of Vicente Fox, Partido Accion Nacional, Mexico
Serhiy Holovaty, President, Ukrainian Legal Foundation, Ukraine
Bi-Khim Hsiao, Director-Department of International Affairs, Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan
Hsin-Liang Hsu, President, The Rising People Foundation, Taiwan
Tom Hudgens, President & CEO, Association to Unite the Democracies, USA
James Huntley, Vice President, Council for a Community of Democracies, USA
Nouri Hussein, Secretary General, Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization, Egypt
Kuri Idrissov, Psychiatrist, Medicine du Mondes, Russia
Kei Inami, Program Advisor, Biodiversity Network Japan, Japan
Tolekan Ismailova, Executive Director, Coalition For Democracy and Civil Society, Kyrgyzstan
Anees Jillani, Natinal Coordinator, SPARC, Pakistan
Eugen Jurzyca, Director, INEKO, Slovakia
Suzaina Kadir, Assistant Professor of Political Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tourpal-Ali Kaimov, Chairman of the Budget Committee, Parliament of the Chechen Republic Ichkeriya, Poland
Marat Kaiypov, President, Association of Lawyers of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan
Harry Kamberis, Executive Director, Solidarity Center, USA
Antoni Kamiński, Chairman, Transparency International, Polish Chapter, Poland
Adrian Karatnycky, President, Freedom House,
Nuriddin Karshiboev, President, Tajik National Association of Independent Mass Media, Tajikistan
Art Kaufman, Project Manager, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Hyekyung Kim, Executive Secretary, Global Civic Sharing, Republic of Korea
Janos Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary
Mykola Knyazhytsky, Director, Society Center, Ukraine
Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Professor, Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
Alpha Oumar Konare, President of the Republic of Mali, Mali
Grażyna Kopińska, Program Director, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Kemal Koprulu, Chairman, Ari Movement, Turkey
Sergei Kovalyov, Deputy, State Duma of the Russian Federation, Russia
Jerzy Kozminski, President & CEO, Polish-American Freedom Foundation, Poland
Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria
Marcin Krol, Dean, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University, Poland
Ranjana Kumari, Director, Centre for Social Research, India
Joanna Kurczewska, Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Poland
Jacek Kurczewski, Professor, Warsaw University, Poland
Annette Laborey, Executive Director, Open Society Institute - Paris, France
Yolanda Laitano de Suazo, Executive Director, Fundacion Democracia y Desarrollo de Honduras, Honduras
Agu Laius, Executive Director, Jaan Tonisson Institute, Estonia
Anthony Lake, Former National Security Advisor, USA
Bolivar Lamounier, Research Director, Sao Paulo Institute for Economic, Social and Political Studies, Brazil
Chris Landsberg, Center for Policy Studies, South Africa
Irena Lasota, President, Intstitute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, USA
Pande Lazarevski, Director, Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, Macedonia
Anatoliy Lebedko, President, Euro-Atlantic Association, Belarus
Elena Leontjeva, President, Lithuanian Free Market Institute, Lithuania
Shane Levesque, Project Manager, Forum of Federations, Canada
Gunta Line, Head, Information Center, Naturalization Board of Latvia, Latvia
Dimon Liu, Executive Director, Committee for Policy Studies, USA
Winston Lord, Co-Chairman, International Rescue Committee, USA
David Lowe, Director of External Relations, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Helena Luczywo, Member of the Management Board, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
Ralph Lysyshyn, President, Forum of Federations, Canada
M'hiri Mahmud, Lawyer, Association Jeune Avocats sans Frontieres, Tunisia
Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, President, International Forum "Bosnia", Bosnia & Herzegovina
Mona Makram-Ebeid, President, Association for the Advancement of Education, Egypt
Riad Malki, General Director, Panorama Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development, Palestine
Sergei Markov, Director, Institute of Political Studies, Russia
Mira Marody, Professor, Warsaw University, Institute of Sociology, Poland
Miklos Marschall, Executive Director, Transparency International, Germany
Nurbulat Masanov, Co-Chairman, Forum of Democratic Forces of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Special Rapporteur to the Former Yugoslavia, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Poland
Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Director, Aspen Institute Berlin, Germany
Kim Mehmeti, Executive Director, Center for Multicultural Understanding and Cooperation, Macedonia
Thomas Melia, Vice President of Programs, National Democratic Institute, USA
Charles Mensa, President, Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana
Grigorij Meseznikoc, President, Institute of Public Affairs, Slovakia
Krzysztof Michalski, Professor, Institute for Human Sciences, Austria
Adam Michnik, Editor in Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
Richard Miniter, Editorial Writer, Wall Street Journal Europe, Belgium
Dorota Mitrus, President, European Institute for Democracy, Poland
Edmund Mokrzycki, Pro-Rector, Central European University, Poland
Mpho Molomo, Professor of Sociology, Democracy Research Project, University of Botswana, Botswana
Barbara-Maria Monheim, President, German-Polish Society for Eastern Europe, Germany
Cesar Montufar, Director of International Studies Department, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador
Juli Morizawa, Secretary General, Amnesty International Japanese Section, Japan
Muhamet Mustafa, President, Riinvest Institute for Development Research, Kosovo
Yvonne Muthien, Consultant, South Africa
Gerald Nagler, President, Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Sweden
Andrew Nagorski, Senior Editor, Newsweek, USA
Sergiusz Najar, President of the Board, Leopold Kronenberg Foundation, Poland
Jigjidsuren Namsrai, Mongolian National Democratic Party, Mongolia
Dazu Nantai, Coordinator of Conflict Mamagement, Institute for Public Policy, Moldova
Daman Nath Dhungana, Senior Advocate, Nepal Bar Association, Nepal
Luis Nava Calvillo, Executive Director, Escuela de Capacitacion Civica, Mexico
Nicolae Negru, Editor-in-Chief, Independent Journalism Center, Moldova
Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute, USA
Hrihoriy Nemyria, Director, Center for European and International Studies, Ukraine
Kassie Neou, Director and Vice Chairman, Cambodian Institute of Human Rights, Cambodia
Karl Nerenberg, Senior Editor, Forum of Federations, Canada
Krzysztof Ners, Deputy Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Poland
Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, President, Liberal International, and Finance Minister, Belgium
Vladzimir Nistsiuk, Vice Chairman, International Union of Parliamentary Solidarity, Belarus
Peter Nizak, Executive Director, Foundation for Development of Democratic Rights, Hungary
Ghia Nodia, Chairman, Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Republic of Georgia
Eduardo Nolla, Vice Rector, Universidad San Pablo, Spain
Urszula Nowakowska, Director, Women's Rights Center, Poland
Marek Nowicki, President, Helsinski Foundation for Human Rights, Poland
Ayo Obe, President, Civil Liberties Union, Nigeria
Andrzej Olechowski, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Olia Onyshko, Deputy Director, Institute of Reforms, Ukraine
Uwe Optenhogel, Director, Division for International Dialogue, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany
Bohdan Osadczuk, Professor, Free University, Germany
Amos Oz, Author, Israel
Mark Palmer, Vice Chairman of the Board, Freedom House, USA
Virgilio Paredes Machado, Director, Center for Political, Economic and Social Studies for Central America, Honduras
Won Soon Park, Secretary General, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, Republic of Korea
Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA
Sergei Pavlenko, Vesty, Russia
Andres Pavon, President, Comite para la Defensa de las Derechos Humanos, Honduras
Zdravko Pecar, Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jean Penders, Member of the Supervisory Board, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, The Netherlands
Inna Pidluska, Vice President, Center for Independent Political Research, Ukraine
Vicente Pinto de Andrade, Professor, Universidade Catolica de Angola, Angola
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, Member of the Board, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Britain
Paweł Piskorski, Mayor of the City of Warsaw, Municipality of the City of Warsaw, Poland
Vitaly Portnikov, Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty, Russia
Rodger Potocki, Program Officer for East Central Europe, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Zef Preci, Executive Director, Albanian Center for Economic Research, Albania
Zoran Pusic, President, Civic Committee for Human Rights, Croatia
Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, Human Rights in China, USA
Gail Rachlin, Spokesperson, U.S. Falun DAFA Information Center, USA
Anna Radziwiłł, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
M. Rajaretnam, Director, Information and Resource Center, Singapore
Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, East Timor
Pauls Raudseps, Managing Editor, Diena, Latvia
Walter Raymond, Senior Advisor, U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, USA
Sohrab Razzaghi-Sihrodi, Professor of Political Science, Gilan University, Iran
Janusz Reiter, President, Center for International Relations, Poland
Roland Rich, Director, Centre for Democratic Institution, Australia
John Richardson, President, Council for a Community of Democracies, USA
Michel Rocard, Former Prime Minister of France, France
Zbigniew Romaszewski, Senator, Polish Senat - Human Rights and Rule Commission, Poland
Kertu Ruus, Editor, Foorum Newspaper, Estonia
Andrzej Rychard, Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Central European University, Poland
Andrzej Sadowski, Vice-President, Adam Smith Research Center, Poland
Roostam Sadri, Plenipotentiary Representative, Tatarstan in Australia, Australia
Mohamed Said, Deputy Director, Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Egypt
Basem Sakijha, Writer, Arab Archives Institute, Jordan
Dorel Sandor, Director, Center for Political Studies and Comparative Analysis, Romania
Bengt Save-Soderbergh, Secretary-General, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Sweden
Ming-Te Shih, Legislator, Legislative Yuan, Taiwan
Zygmunt Skorzynski, President, Poland in Europe Foundation, Poland
Gary Smith, Executive Director, The American Academy in Berlin, Germany
Aleksander Smolar, President, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Hadi Soesastro, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia
Cornelio Sommaruga, Chairman, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian De-mining, Switzerland
George Soros, Chairman, Open Society Institute and Soros Fund Management, USA
Dana Southworth, Program Officer, Center for International Private Enterprise, USA
Hari Stajner, Director General, Media Center, Yugoslavia
Krzysztof Stanowski, Foundation for Education for Democracy, Poland
Alessandra Stoicescu, Antena 1, Romania
Jacek Strzemieczny, Director, Center for Citizenship Education, Poland
Nina Stuzhinskaya, President, All-Belarusian Womens' League, Belarus
John Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise, USA
Veton Surroi, Publisher, Koha Ditore, Kosovo
Jerzy Szacki, Professor, Warsaw University, Poland
Piotr Szczepański, President, Rural Development Foundation, Poland
Chalida Tajaroensuk, Program Coordinator, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Thailand
Muborak Tashpulatova, Executive Director, Tashkent Public Education Center, Uzbekistan
Marc Thiessen, Spokesman, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, USA
Thomas Tint Swe, Minister of South Asian Affairs, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, India
Goce Todoroski, Executive Director, Center for Civic Initiative, Macedonia
Alejandro Toledo, President, Partido Peru Posible, Peru
Davis Troy, President, World Citizen Foundation, USA
Maria Soledad Alvear Valenzuela, Foreign Minister of Chile, Chile
Fred Van Leeuwen, General Secretary, Education International, Belgium
Vincuk Viacorka, Chairman, Belarusan Popular Front, Belarus
 Wan Azizah binti Wan Ismail, President, National Justice Party, Malaysia
Jusuf Wanandi, Senior Fellow and Member of the Board, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia
Jingsheng Wei, President, Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, USA
Werner Weidenfeld, Member of the Board, Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany
S. Izetta Wesley, Assistant Secretary General, Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia, Liberia
Andrew Wilson, Senior Program Officer, Center for International Private Enterprise, USA
Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Poland
Jacek Wojnarowski, Director, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Elizabeth Wong, Secretary General, National Human Rights Society, Malaysia
Noel Don Wycliff, Editorial Page Editor, Chicago Tribune, USA
Yogendra Yadav, Director, Institute for Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
Anatoly Zabolotny, President, Siberian Civic Initiatives Support Center, Russia
Adlin Zabri, Fellow, Institute of Policy Research, Malaysia
Ahmad Zakaria, Dean, Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Fareed Zakaria, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs, USA
Jacek Zakowski, Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
Victor Zamyatin, Foreign Editor, Den, Ukraine
Michael Zantovsky, Chair, Committee on Foreign Relations, Defense and Security, Senate of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Krzysztof Zanussi, Film Director, Tor Film Production, Poland
Erping Zhang, Spokesperson, U.S. Falun DAFA Information Center, USA
Andrzej Ziabicki, Vice President, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Altai Zorig, Director, Channel 25 TV, Mongolia

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