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1814, 1914, 2014: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future Directory August 25 to 29, 2014 Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria This event has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additional Support was provided by: The organizers would like to thank all participants for donating their time and expertise to this seminar. 5 Participants Mohamed Issa ABUSHAHAB has served as the director of Policy Planning in the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs since August 2013. Between 2012 and 2014, His Excellency Abushahab served as the acting director of the Department of American and Pacific Affairs, also at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, he headed the International Climate Change Division within the Directorate of Energy and Climate Change and was posted for five years at the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the United Nations in New York. H.E. Abushahab holds a B.A. from the American University in Washington, D.C. Turki Al Faisal AL SAUD was born on February 15, 1945, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He began his schooling at the Model School in Taif and went on to gain his high school diploma at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He then completed his studies at Georgetown University. His Royal Highness was appointed as an advisor at the Royal Court in 1973. In 1977 he was appointed director general (with a rank of minister) of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), Saudi Arabia’s main foreign intelligence service and served as the head of the GID until August 2001. In October 2002 His Royal Highness was appointed as the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. He served in that position until July 2005, when he was appointed as ambassador to the US. He retired in February 2007. A founder and trustee of the King Faisal Foundation, he is also the chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. Additionally, His Royal Highness is a trustee of the Oxford Islamic Center at Oxford University and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He has been appointed a lecturer at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He received an honorary Ph.D. in law in 2010 from the University of Ulster in Ireland and an honorary Ph.D. in international politics in 2011 from the University of Hankuk in Korea. His Royal Highness is a visiting distinguished professor at Georgetown University and an active participant in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, the Global Economic Symposium, and the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria, of the Board of the Beirut Institute, of the Board of Trustees of the Council for Arab and International Relations and of the Advisory Council of the Munich Security Conference. Katlego BAGWASI is currently based at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, where she works as an intern in the Appeal Chamber. Prior to this, she taught public international law in the Law Department at the University of Botswana. She was also the legal clinic coordinator at the University. From 2009 to 2010, Ms. Bagwasi was a practising attorney at Monthe Marumo and Company. Her research interests are international criminal justice, human rights and legal education. Ms. Bagwasi is a Rhodes scholar from Botswana and earned a bachelor’s degree in civil law from Oriel College, Oxford. She also holds an M.Sc. in criminology and criminal justice from Oxford University. 6 John BAIRD was first elected to the House of Commons in 2006 and re-elected in 2008 and 2011. In February 2006, Mr. Baird was sworn in as president of the Treasury Board, and he has held cabinet positions as; minister of the environment (2007, 2011), minister of transport, infrastructure and communities (2008), leader of the Government in the House of Commons (2010), and minister of foreign affairs (2011). Prior to entering federal politics, Mr. Baird was a member of Ontario’s provincial legislature from 1995 to 2005. During that time, he served as minister of community and social services, energy, francophone affairs, children and youth services, and as Government House leader. In 2008, Mr. Baird was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Maclean’s Magazine and the Historica- Dominion Institute named him 2010 Parliamentarian of the Year, after a vote by his colleagues in all parties in the House of Commons. Mr. Baird holds a B.A. in political studies from Queen’s University. Ray BARTKUS is an artist-illustrator with over 23 years of experience in editorial illustration. His works appeared regularly on the covers and pages of many national and international publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Harper’s, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The New Republic, Smart Money, The Fortune, and Courrier International. His illustrations received numerous awards by the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of Newspaper Designers and the Society of Illustrators. A native of Lithuania, he earned a master’s degree from Vilnius Art Academy in printmaking. Last year he had high profile exhibitions in Salle des Pas Perdus at the UN in Geneva, at Neon Gallery, at the Wroclaw Academy of Arts in Wroclaw and at Titanikas Gallery at the Vilnius Art Academy. Bethany BELL has worked as a BBC foreign correspondent since 2001. Based in Vienna, she has reported for the BBC in over 25 countries, in Europe, the United States and the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian territories). In the past three years, she has spent extensive periods in Egypt, covering the Tahrir uprising and its aftermath. She has reported on the Iranian nuclear issue since 2003. Her first position in foreign news was with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, ORF Radio Austria International, for whom she covered the Kosovo conflict, EU summits, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She is a graduate of Oxford University. Hans BRATTSKAR is deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway. He was ambassador to Kenya and Norway’s representative to the UN organizations based in Nairobi, Kenya; director general and special envoy for climate change, Ministry of the Environment; director for the Norwegian Government’s International Climate and Forest Initiative, and special adviser for peacebuilding operations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is member of the Central Executive Committee of local branches of the Conservative Party (Holmen, Asker and Haslum). Dr. Brattskar holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Affairs from Claremont Graduate University. 7 Altay CENGIZER is currently director general for policy planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Ankara, Turkey. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a member of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, doing pure research on the international politics of the decade preceding the Great War and during the War itself. From 2000 to 2005 he served as deputy permanent representative of Turkey to the United Nations in New York, and left for Tajikistan as ambassador. In 2006, he was appointed as special advisor to then Foreign Minister, President Abdullah Gül. He served as ambassador to Ireland from 2009 to 2013 and was appointed, for the second time, as director general for policy planning. He is a graduate of Bosphorus University and earned an M.A. in international history from London School of Economics and Political Science. Marc CHAMPION is an editorial board member at Bloomberg View and writes editorials on international affairs. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief, and deputy bureau chief for Northern Europe at the Wall Street Journal, where he covered politics and Diplomacy in Europe. He was also an editor at the Financial Times, the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Times and a correspondent for the Independent in Washington, the Balkans and Moscow. He is based in London. Seán CLEARY is the founder of FutureWorld Foundation. He lectures on global strategy at business schools, as well as on globalization, conflict resolution and development at defence colleges and research institutes. He chairs the advisory boards of the Global Economic Symposium and Operation Hope; serves on the board of the Carbon War Room; and is a strategic advisor to the World Economic Forum, a trustee of the South African Foundation for Conciliation, and a faculty member of the Parmenides Foundation. He is a former diplomat; helped craft the South African National Peace Accord; and chaired the working group on the Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Organizations. Mr. Cleary has received academic and public service awards; co-authored two books and published numerous articles. He studied social sciences and law at UNISA and UCT, and holds an M.B.A. from Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Daryl COPELAND is an educator, analyst and consultant. He is the author of Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations and has written over 100 articles and book chapters for the scholarly and popular media. A former Canadian diplomat, who served in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia, he is now senior fellow at the Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute, and specializes in the relationship between science, technology, diplomacy and international policy. He holds teaching appointments at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, as well as Ottawa, Otago (NZ) and East Anglia Universities, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy and of the Advisory Board of Canadian Foreign Policy.