Contents

Rhodes Forum 2

Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute 3

Dialogue of Civilization Community 6

Speakers’ Biographies 16

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The Chaos of Multiplicity: An Urgent Call for Dialogue

Rhodes Forum

Held since 2002, the Rhodes Forum has been an annual event organised by the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations (headquartered in Vienna). As part of the WPF’s transformation into the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute this long-standing event will, in future, be organised by DOC (headquartered in Berlin).

The Forum has to-date been held on the Greek island of Rhodes, attracting around 600 participants from over 70 countries. Key guests and speakers include acting and former presidents and senior officials, members of the international academic community and business elite, representatives of international NGOs, diplomats and the media, including Strobe Talbott (2011), Noam Chomsky (2012), and Milos Zeman (2014).

The Rhodes Forum has consistently sought to promote a new culture of dialogue, which is so desperately needed. Today, the World Public Forum’s community remains committed to achieving this goal.

The Forum seeks to reflect key issues on the international agenda. Forum participants share their views on current events, and address ideas for possible solutions to some of our most pressing problems to both decision-makers and to society in general. This is part of the international community’s broader efforts to protect the key values of humanity and to contribute to sustainable and inclusive global development.

The agenda of the 14th Forum will comprise a number of overarching themes, including:

• civilizations against the new barbarism; • alternative economic models; • human ecology; • global inclusive development; • reconciliation and peace between East and West; • new strategies for growth based on infrastructure investment.

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Steering Committee of the Rhodes Forum 2016

Dr. Vladimir Yakunin, Co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, Head of the Department for State Governance at Moscow State University; Prof. Fred Dallmayr, Member of the Supervisory Board of Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute; Co-founder of the WPF; Packey J. Dee Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Notre Dame; Dr. Walter Schwimmer, Co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute; Secretary General, Council of Europe (1999-2004); Dr. Adrian Pabst, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Director of Undergraduate Recruitment and Admissions, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent; Prof. Raffaele Marchetti, Senior Assistant Professor, Joint Appointment at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government, LUISS University; Dr. Vladimir Kulikov, Scientific Director of Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute.

Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute

History

Rooted in a tradition of seeking dialogue-based solutions to humankind’s most pressing issues, Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute builds on the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations’ expertise, bringing together global thought leaders from academia, public policy, business and civil society to debate and develop practice-based policy advice.

On 9 November 2001, following an initiative by Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami, UNESCO Member States unanimously adopted the ‘UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity’ and the UN General Assembly presented its Global Agenda for Dialogue Among Civilisations, setting out the principles of inter-cultural dialogue to be defended and objectives to be achieved. The Dialogue of Civilizations emerged as a practical endeavour to implement this initiative.

In 2002, Dialogue of Civilizations was co-founded by Indian entrepreneur and visionary Jagdish Kapur, and Dr Vladimir Yakunin, business leader, philanthropist and Doctor of Political Sciences, as well as by the American businessman of Greek origin, Nicholas F.S. Papanicolaou. 3 Rhodes Forum

In its 15-year history, Dialogue of Civilizations has held over 100 seminars, roundtables, and lectures. It has organised over 30 regional conferences in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and hosts the annual Rhodes Forum – an event that brings together experts from across the globe to address some of the most complex issues facing humanity.

Dialogue of Civilizations has published over 15 books, provides online courses, and has launched the educational initiative Schools of the Dialogue of Cultures.

Since 2013 it has enjoyed UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Special Consultative Status, and also collaborates with UNESCO.

In its 15-year history, Dialogue of Civilizations has held over 100 seminars, roundtables, and lectures. It has organised over 30 regional conferences in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and hosts the annual Rhodes Forum – an event that brings together experts from across the globe to address some of the most complex issues facing humanity.

Dialogue of Civilizations has published over 15 books, provides online courses, and has launched the educational initiative Schools of the Dialogue of Cultures.

Since 2013 it has enjoyed UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Special Consultative Status, and also collaborates with UNESCO.

Our Mission

We believe that mutual understanding is the fundamental prerequisite for humankind’s inclusive development, and that open, respectful, and equitable dialogue is essential in these times of drastic global change and uncertainty.

Dialogue of Civilizations is a community of professionals, focused on applying the paradigm of Dialogue of Civilizations in its work to explore and offer global policy makers and major multi-national corporations practical advice and solutions.

Dialogue of Civilizations’ special reports, expert commentary, and analysis from our international network of respected academics and industry experts is available on our website and we always welcome further comment and debate.

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Funding

DOC receives no governmental grants or subsidies.

All our activities are financed from the proceeds of our Endowment (Geneva, Switzerland www.dofc-foundation. org), membership fees and sponsorship. We use all proceeds from our publishing and Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events (MICE) activities to fund our continued research.

To donate to DOC Endowment or explore sponsorship opportunities for our events and research, please contact Ms Ekaterina Gerus at [email protected]..

Use this QR-code to explore all the options for getting involved.

Governance and Transparency

DOC’s Supervisory Board includes senior advisors and major donors. It executes strategic guidance and stewardship of the organisation’s executive management.

Day-to-day activities are managed by our CEO, who leads the Executive Board of five directors and our Senior Editor.

DOC’s research agenda, papers and other research activities are led by the Programme Council, which comprises senior advisors from various academic, NGO and public policy backgrounds.

We value our relationship with the media. For any media requests please contact us at [email protected]

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Co-Founders

Vladimir Yakunin

Co-founder of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations, Co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute

Russian business leader, philanthropist and Doctor of Political Sciences. President of Russian Railways (2005-2015). Head of the Department of State Politics of the Faculty of Political Science of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Political Sciences, Visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Honorary Doctor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences.

Vladimir Yakunin graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics as a Mechanical Engineer in 1972. After completing military service he worked with the Administration of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Trade and as a department head at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Ioffe Physical- Technical Institute.

In 1985-1991, Vladimir Yakunin was Second and then First Secretary of the USSR’s Permanent Representative Office at the United Nations. Vladimir Yakunin served as Chairman of the Board at the International Centre for Business Cooperation, and was then nominated head of the North- Western Federal District Inspectorate of the Senior Control Department of the President of the Russian Federation. Yakunin was appointed Deputy Minister of Transport in October 2000 and first Deputy Minister of Railways in February 2002.

In October 2003 the Board of Russian Railways JSC appointed Vladimir Yakunin First Vice President. In June 2005 he was promoted to President of Russian Railways JSC, a position he held until August 2015.

Vladimir Yakunin is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St Andrew the First-Called Foundation and Centre of National Glory, Founding President and Co-chairman of the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations and Co-president of the Franco-Russian Dialogue Association. He is Head of the State Policy Department, Political Sciences Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

In 2013 Vladimir Yakunin founded the Endowment for the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations aimed at supporting research in the political and social sciences, religion and culture, developing communication between countries on political and economic issues, and seeking compromise in social unrest and international disputes. 6 Dialogue of Civilization Community

Peter W. Schulze

Co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute

Peter W. Schulze is a German academic and political scientist with a focus on international relations and Russia, the CIS, the Cold War and contemporary power constellations in the international state system. He is a member of the German-Russian Forum (Germany), the International Institute of Liberal Politics (Austria), the Institute of European Law (Germany), NABU, and is co-founder of the Schlangenbader Gespräche on political security in Europe. He has published widely on domestic aspects of transformation processes in Eastern Europe.

Peter W Schulze joined the German Air Force for two years to help fund his university studies, first in Contemporary History, Political Sciences and Geography at the Free University of Berlin (FUB), and later in Political Sciences and International Relations, receiving a diploma from FUB in Political Sciences.

He took up a teaching position at the Otto Suhr Institute (Political Science Department) on Soviet Studies, Theory of International Relations and Comparative Aspects of Transformation Processes in European societies. His thesis on industrialisation, institutional changes and the creation of technical cadres/intelligence during the first three 5-year- plans of the Soviet Union, 1929 to 1938, was published in 1975.

His subsequent research looked at the impact of socio- political movements on FDR New Deal in the 1930s.

Peter W Schulze joined the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s research team on American Affairs in 1982, creating an analytical framework to study Reagan era US politics and provide political decision makers and social democratic deputies in the German parliament a more analytical insight into the phenomena connected with the rise of the New Right.

In 1984 he opened and chaired a research and communication initiative at the University of California, in Berkeley, focused on US policies towards the Soviet Union, the third World and the European integration process.

He led a similar initiative in London in 1987-1988 to facilitate the relationship and collaboration between the German SPD and the British Labour Party, an area he continued to be involved in until 1992, when he was appointed director of the FES Moscow Office - a post he held until 2003.

From 2003 to the present day he has been involved in academic research, while also acting as a consultant to deputies and experts at the German Bundestag. 7 Rhodes Forum

Walter Schwimmer

Former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Co- chairman of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations, Co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute

Walter Schwimmer is an Austrian politician and diplomat.

From 1971 to 1999 he was a member of the Austrian Parliament (National Council), serving as a chairperson of several committees (Justice, Health, Housing and Construction) and deputy leader of the Austrian People’s Party. From 1 September 1999 to 1 September 2004, Schwimmer was Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

He also chaired the Interparliamentary Union of Friendship of Austria and Israel in the Parliament of Austria (1976-1999) and member of the National Counsel of the Association Asia-Israel (1973-1999), serving as its vice-president (since 1977) and president (1982-1999).

Currently Walter Schwimmer acts as a consultant on International Relations and European Affairs, is a member of a Board of the Crans Montana Forum, Honorary Secretary General of the Maison de la Mediterranee, Chairman of the International Coordination Committee and Co-Chairman of the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations.

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Supervisory Board

The three co-founders, Vladimir Yakunin, Walter Schwimmer, and Peter W Schulze, are all members of the Supervisory Board, which also includes:

Fred Dallmayr

Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, Co- chairman of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations

Fred Dallmayr is a well-known political theorist specialising in modern and contemporary European thought with an additional interest in comparative or cross-cultural philosophy.

His publications include: The Other Heidegger, Beyond Orientalism: Essays On Cross-Cultural Encounters, Achieving Our World: Toward a Global and Plural Democracy, Dialogue Among Civilizations: Some Exemplary Voices, Hegel: Modernity And Politics.

Fred Dallmayr holds a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Munich and a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University.

He has served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP).

He is co-chairman of WPF Dialogue of Civilizations, Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, member of the International Coordinating Committee of World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations, and of the Scientific Committee of RESET – Dialogue on Civilizations.

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Vladimir Fortov

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Born in Russia in 1946, Professor Vladimir E. Fortov has been President of the Russian Academy of Sciences since his appointment in 2013.

Since 2013 he has also held the positions of Vice Chairman of the Presidential Council for Science and Education, and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General.

He was appointed Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Joint Institute for High Temperatures in 2007. He is on the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he has been a Professor and Director of High Energy Physics since 1991.

He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology from 1996-1997, and from 1997 to 1998 as Minister of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1968 and continued with his graduate studies – completing a PhD in Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics in 1971 He was awarded his Doctorate for work on intense shock and detonation waves in 1976, and in 1978 he received his Professor’s degree.

He is a respected scientist whose work has a profound impact on the modern state of physics and engineering science in fields such as energy, space science, high energy density physics, extreme states of matter, thermal properties of materials, low temperature plasmas, the interaction of intense energy fluxes with matter, combustion and explosion. His research has fundamental significance for the development of impulse and industrial power engineering, astrophysics, controlled thermonuclear synthesis and rocket technology.

Professor Vladimir Fortov and his Institute were involved in the international Russian, French, German, and Hungarian space project VEGA to investigate Halley’s comet. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and of the Max Planck Society.

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Alfred Gusenbauer

Federal Chancellor of Austria (2007 – 2008), Co-chairman of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations

Alfred Gusenbauer studied political sciences, philosophy and law at the University of Vienna (D.Phil 1987).

From January 1981 to September 1990 he was Executive Secretary for Youth in the Social Democratic Party of Austria. He also served as federal chairman of the Socialist Youth (SJ) (1984 – 1990).

From 1985 to 1989 Alfred Gusenbauer served as a Vice- President of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). He was also a senior research fellow in the Economic Policy Department of the Chamber of Labour from 1990 – 1999, chairman of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe (1995 – 1998) and Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Austria from November 1999 to February 2000.

He has served as a member of the Austrian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 1991.

Since 2000 he has held such positions as Secretary general of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, leader of the Social Democratic Group in the Austrian Parliament (February 2000), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (April 29th 2000) and Chancellor of Austria from January 2007 to December 2008.

Václav Klaus

Czech President (2003-2013)

An academic economist by training, he was forced out of the Academy of Sciences after the Soviet invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia in 1968, after the Prague Spring.

Vá clav Klaus returned after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, as one of the founders of the Civic Forum Movement.

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He was the country’s first non-Communist Finance Minister and served from 1992 to 1997 as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.

From 2003 to 2013, he was the country’s President, and now runs a free market think-tank in Prague, called the Vá clav Klaus Institute. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Harald Kujat

Chair of the Advisory Council, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium

Harald Kujat is a retired General of the German Airforce, who served as Inspector General of the German Army, as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (2002- 2005).

He served under former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as a security advisor in the German Chancellery, and as Director of Coordination of IFOR Forces in Bosnia under NATO Commander-in-Chief General Joulwan – helping implement the Dayton Peace Agreement.

In 1999 he was appointed Director of Policy and Advisory Staff at the German Ministry of Defence, advising the Defence Minister on all key long-term issues that have military or defence components and implications.

Today Harald Kujat is one of Germany’s most respected military experts.

Armen Sarkissian

Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Prime Minister of Armenia (1996-1997), Armenian Ambassador to the UK

Armen Sarkissian, Prime Minister of Armenia (1996-1997), is a well-known philanthropist and founding President of Eurasia House International in London, which fosters critical dialogue and cooperation among political and business leaders. It is involved in bridge-building between the West and the vast geographical space extending from Eastern Europe to Russia, the CIS, and China. 12 Dialogue of Civilization Community

Until 2001 he served as Founder-Director of the Eurasia Centre at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, with particular expertise in state-building structures and free-market transition processes.

In October 1991, Dr Sarkissian established the first Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the West, in London. In addition to his diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom, he went on to become Senior Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Europe (Deputy Foreign Minister) and concurrently represented Armenia as Ambassador to the EU, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the Vatican. From 1995-1996 he was Head of Mission of the Republic of Armenia to Europe, and was reappointed Ambassador to the UK in 1998 and 2013.

Armen Sarkissian is one of the initiators of the Eurasian Media Forum, held every year in Kazakhstan. He holds honorary and executive positions in a number of international organisations, including: Member of the Dean’s Advisory Board, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; the Dean’s Advisory Board, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago; Board Member of IREX; International Economic Alliance; Global Leadership Foundation (headed by former President of South Africa F. W. De Klerk) and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London University; the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, National Competitiveness Council of Armenia.

Ruben Vardanyan

Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Prior to the closure of the deal to merge Sberbank with Troika Dialog in January 2012, Ruben Vardanyan held the position of CEO and Chairman of the Board at Troika Dialog, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in Russia and the CIS.

He currently serves as Advisor to the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sberbank of Russia and is a board member at KAMAZ, SIBUR Holding, Joule Unlimited, Inc (U.S.), and Ameriabank (Armenia).

Ruben Vardanyan is a member of the Economic Advisory Board at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), 13 Rhodes Forum

the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and a member of the Investment Committee of AVICA. He was Chairman of the Board at Sukhoi Civil Aircraft from 2005- 2009, a board member at Rosgosstrakh from 2004-2015, serving as Chairman of the Board from June 2011 through December 2013, and a board member at AvtoVAZ from 2008-2014.

Ruben Vardanyan is a member of the Investment Council under the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a member of the Strategic Council for Investments in New Industries under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan.

He also serves on the Non-profit partnership “National Council on Corporate Governance,” as well as the Board of the Endowment for the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations.

He is a Founding Partner and Vice-Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, as well as Chairman of the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Chairman of the Expert Council of the school’s Wealth Transformation Center.

Ruben Vardanyan serves on the International Advisory Boards at the International Christian University (Japan) and at Fundação Dom Cabral business school (FDC, Brazil), as well as the Boards of Trustees of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

He is a member of the Central Board of Directors of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and a member of the Supreme Religious Council of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Ruben Vardanyan graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and has completed post-graduate courses and programs at INSEAD, Harvard Business School, Yale University and Stanford University.

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Li Xin

Professor, Director, Institute for Economic Comparative Studies; Director of the Department of Russian and Central Asian Studies, the Shanghai Institute for International Studies

Professor Li Xin is director of the Institute for Economic Comparative Studies and Center for Russia and the Central Asia Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS).

He taught at the Department of Management, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry (1987-1989) after graduating from the Department of Economics at Wuhan University. He continued his studies in world economics at Renmin University, and was a doctoral student majoring in economics at Belarus State University (1989-1994). He received his post-doctoral fellowship at Fudan University’s School of Economics (1994-1997).

Li Xin is member of the Shanghai Committee of People’s Political Consultative Conference and standing director of National Council of China Society of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Research Centre.

He serves as vice-president of the Shanghai Association of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies and part-time professor and director of doctoral students at Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and East China Normal University.

His major academic interest is in the world economy, economics of transition, economies in transition and with a particular focus on the Russian economy.

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Speakers’ Biographies

Zygmunt Bauman

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most significant global social thinkers of our age.

Zygmunt Bauman was born in Poland in 1925. He moved to Britain in the 1950’s, and took up a position as Lecturer at both the University of Warsaw and the University of Tel Aviv. He held several visiting professorships before he became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds in Yorkshire from 1972 until his retirement in 1990. Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at both the University of Leeds and University of Warsaw.

Bauman’s published work extends to 57 books and well over a hundred articles. Most of these address a number of common themes, among which are globalization, modernity and postmodernity, consumerism, and morality.

His work, spanning nearly five decades, steadfastly refuses to be constrained by arbitrary disciplinary boundaries within the arts, humanities and social sciences.

An extraordinarily productive scholar, his writings continue to be relevant to his host subject of sociology, but also to social and political theory, philosophy, ethics, art theory, media/communications studies, cultural studies, and theology.

Bauman was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1992 and the Theodor W. Adorno Award of the city of Frankfurt in 1998. He has been awarded in 2010, jointly with Alain Touraine, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities.

The University of Leeds launched the The Bauman Institute within its School of Sociology and Social Policy in Bauman’s honour in September 2010.

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Akeel Bilgrami

Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University; Faculty Member of the Committee on Global Thought, USA/India

Akeel Bilgrami is the Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, faculty member of the Committee of Global Thought and director of South Asian Institute (Columbia University). He teaches courses and seminars regularly in the department on philosophy of mind and language of Columbian University and also in the Committee on Global Thought and Political Science on issues in politics and rationality as well as religion and politics in a global context. Prof. Bilgrami is also the director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is author of various articles and books. The most famous are «Belief and Meaning», «Self Knowledge and Resentment» and «Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity» as well as over fifty articles in philosophy and in theoretical issues in politics and culture.

Ravi Bhoothalingam

Founder & Chairman, Manas Advisory, India

Ravi Bhoothalingam is a B.Sc Hons in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and holds a Masters degree [M.A. Cantab] in Experimental Psychology from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, UK, as also an AMP from Harvard. He was trained by the famed scientist and Sinologist Joseph Needham in Psycholinguistics and Chinese language and culture.

Founder and Chairman of Manas Advisory, a Consultancy practice focusing on Leadership Coaching as well as on business and cultural relations with China, Mongolia and Myanmar.

Until June 2001, he was President of The Oberoi Group of Hotels, a multinational hotel company based in India. Earlier, he was Head of Personnel Worldwide with BAT plc [London], Managing Director of VST Industries Ltd [Hyderabad] and Director, ITC Limited [Calcutta], both BAT Associate Companies in India.

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Ravi Bhoothalingam serves on the Boards of Directors of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, Hyderabad, India and Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd, New Delhi, India. Ravi is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi University, India and Member, Court of Governors at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of China Report (an international journal of Sinology) and of World Affairs, (a journal of international issues).

He is a member of the international Study Group on the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor and a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Core Group on China.

Muzifakhon Babadjanova

Director of Resource Information Center of UN, Head of UNESCO Chair «Intercultural Dialogue in the Modern World», Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University, Tajikistan

Associated Professor of Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University, Economic Faculty, Faculty of History and International Relations, Philological Faculty. Chairholder of UNESCO Chair “Intercultural Dialogue in Modern World”, Focal Point of Information Research Center of UN.

Counselor on Political Affairs, Deputy of Ambassador, Embassy of Tajikistan in India (2007-2010). Secretary- General, Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (2003-2007). Deputy Head of the Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (2001-2003). Head of CIS Division, Advisor of the Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO. Head of UN Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (1994-2001).

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Jiahong Chen

Adjunct Fellow of Education Program, East West Center, Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership, China

Jiahong Chen completed her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Comparative Education from UCLA. Her research runs across the philosophy of education, dialogue among civilizations and liberal arts education. Previously she served as Vice Director of the Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations at the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, as well as Secretary General of the World Ethics Institute at Peking University. She was a fellow at the East and West Centre, Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership and now a visiting research fellow at Peking University.

Marina Calculli

Fulbright research fellow, The George Washington University, Italy

PhD in Political Science, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Milan (2010- 2013). Fulbright research fellow, the George Washington University, Washington D.C. (US), Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Elliott School for International Affairs. External member, ERIS – Emerging Research on International Security, Sant’Anna, School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.

Author of a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and several forthcoming monographs on Syria and the Middle East.

Member of International Studies Association, American Political Science Associations, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Studies Association, Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies, Italian Political Science Association and Standing Group of International Relations.

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Lin Che

Movie Culture, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Postdoc in Research Centre for Cultural Policy in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; received Ph.D. from the School of Arts in Peking University for a dissertation on masculinities in Chinese films of the 1980s.

Research interests: visual culture in contemporary China; cultural policy in film and mass media; the relationship between art house films in China and international film festivals; gender, masculinities and sexuality in contemporary China; new media studies.

Hilal Elver

UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food; Global Distinguished Fellow, Resnick Food Law and Policy Program UCLA Law School, Turkey

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right to Food since June 2014. She is an international law professor and Global Distinguished Fellow at the UCLA Law School Resnick Food Law and Policy Center; as well as the Co-director of the Climate Change, Human Security and Democracy project at the Orfalea Center, UC Santa Barbara, where she has been Distinguished Visiting Professor between 2002-2012. Previously she was the UNEP Chair on Environmental Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta; and taught at the University of Ankara, Faculty of Law.

She served also to Turkish government as the founding legal advisor of the Ministry of Environment, and General Director of the Women Status at office of the Prime Minister. Until very recently She was also a member of the Turkish team at the Climate Change negotiations. Her publications focus on environmental law, climate change, food security, human rights and women rights. Her book on Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: The Euphrates and Tigris Transboundary River Basins published in 2002; Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion published by Oxford University in 2012; Her most recent co-edited book with Paul Wapner is Reimagining Climate Change published in 2016 by Routledge Press.

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Richard Falk

Professor Emeritus of international law, Princeton University, USA

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book, The Great Terror War (2003), considers the American response to September 11, including its relationship to the patriotic duties of American Citizens. In 2001 he served on a three person Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the Palestine Territories that was appointed by the United Nations, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo.

He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; Explorations at the Edge of Time; Revolutionaries and Functionaries; The Promise of World Order; Indefensible Weapons; Human Rights and State Sovereignty; A Study of Future Worlds; This Endangered Planet; coeditor of Crimes of War. He serves as Chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Board of Directors and as honorary vice president of the American Society of International Law. Falk also acted as counsel to Ethiopia and Liberia in the Southwest Africa Case before the International Court of Justice. He received his B.S. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; L.L.B. from Yale Law School; and J.S.D. from Harvard University.

He is currently serving his third year of a six year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.

Scherto Gill

Secretary General/Senior Research Fellow, Guerrand- Hermès Foundation for Peace; Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex’s Department of Education, UK

Dr. Scherto Gill is Senior Research Fellow and Secretary General at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace. Visiting Fellow and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sussex’s School of Education and Social Work.

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of flourishing, structural and spiritual peace as well as education as peace, and she is investigating how to expand these concepts and ideas in the ongoing effort to cultivate a global culture of peace.

She convenes and hosts an international research seminar series at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace in Brighton, England.

Over time, Scherto (co)-convened many international events, including an international dialogue series on “Understanding Peace and Peacefulness” (April & Dec 2015, June 2016, Sept 2016); the “Spirit of Humanity Forum” (April 2017, April 2014 & Sept 2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland); the International Symposium on “Religious Education, Spirituality and Human Flourishing” (Feb 2012) in partnership with the UN Alliance of Civilizations; the international conference series on “Human-Centered Education” (1999, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014, 2016); the international conference/workshop series on “Healing the Wounds of History: Address the Roots of Violence” (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) and the Narrative Practitioners Forums in London.

Scherto is a member of British Education Research Association, American Educational Research Association and European Society of Research in Education. Scherto is a Fellow of British Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a member of the Royal Institute at Chatham House, and an Associate of Taos Institute. She is a board member of Ara Pacis Initiative, a global council for Dignity, Forgiveness, Justice and Reconciliation, and a trustee of the Lewes New School in the UK.

Amina Hamshari

Assistant Programme Specialist, Intercultural Dialogue Division of Social Transformations and Intercultural Dialogue Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO, France

Assistant Programme Specialist, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO. Amina Hamshari conducts capacity building projects and awareness-raising campaigns for the promotion of intercultural dialogue since 2003 at UNESCO Headquarters. She has an extended knowledge of the Arab regional socio‐cultural and political context. She has developed several educational projects in Palestine (1996-2002), pertaining to curriculum development and teacher training in peace education, human rights, gender, democracy, heritage education, intercultural dialogue and global values education. 22 Speakers’ Biographies

She currently works for the Intercultural Dialogue Programme at the Division of Social Transformations and Dialogue which is in charge of the implementation of the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2013-2022) at UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector. Amina Hamshari holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Contemporary History (Master degree, Paris X-Nanterre University, 1994, France).

Fred Harrison

Executive Director, Land Research Trust, London, UK

Graduated Birkbeck College (MSc, 1974) and University College, Oxford (BA, 1972).

In 1992-2001 conducted consultancies in post-Soviet Russia. In 2000-2005 - Editor, Geophilos, journal of the Land Research Trust, London.

Fred Harrison is author of a number of publications and 22 books.

Holger Heims

Managing Partner, Falcon Group (Switzerland)

Holger founded Falcon Group in 2005, establishing Falcon Equity Advisors GmbH in Switzerland and later Falcon Advisory Partners DMCC in Dubai.

He has over 20 years experience in the private equity, direct investment and asset management sector; as managing partner in private equity funds as well as CEO or CFO of both private and public companies in the USA, Asia and Europe.

Holger was senior managing partner of several private equity funds in Europe, achieving a well-known reputation in the private equity industry with strong operational, financial and strategic objectives.

He has led numerous international turnarounds, plus more than two dozen M&A projects and corporate investments/ divestments. 23 Rhodes Forum

Holger was responsible for the M&A activities of Computer 2000 AG, then with sales of over US$ 5 billion, subsequently acquired by TechData (NASDAQ: TECD). Also, he was Managing Partner of DVC Deutsche Venture Capital, a Deutsche Bank AG group of private equity funds comprising about US$ 400 million under management, and then served as General Partner of Vi Partners AG, a Swiss private equity fund backed by large Swiss blue chip investors including ABB, Schindler, Credit Suisse, Hilti, Nestle, etc.

Over the years he built Falcon Group’s strong network and results-oriented reputation in the financial, business and industrial community of the Middle East and Europe.

A German national, Holger is a graduate of Munich University with subsequent executive education at INSEAD- Fontainebieau, France.

Larry Jacobs

Managing Director, World Congress of Families, USA

Larry Jacobs is Managing Director of the World Congress of Families. Founder and CEO of Jabez Consultants and Advisors, a nonprofit consulting business that assists companies and pro-life organizations with business strategy, development and community relationship building. He is the former President, CEO and Development Director of Healthy Beginnings, a medical practice and healthcare ministry that worked with more than 18 pro-life pregnancy centers in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio. Prior to Healthy Beginnings, Larry spent 8 years as a manager at The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G). He has served on various official executive committees and boards of directors including Trinity Christian School, Rockford Kiwanis Club, and Northern Illinois Community Foundation. He is currently board chairman for Freedom’s Journal Institute, a Christian African-American organization in Chicago that runs the Black Conservative Summit.

Mr. Jacobs has two Master’s degrees from Yale University, in Economics (M.A.) and Natural Resource Policy (M.F.S.), and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree, cum laude, Phi Betta Kappa, in Environmental Science from Allegheny College.

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Vladimir Kulikov

Scientific Director of DOC Research Institute, Russia

PhD in History, graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries (Moscow State University) in 1977. From 1977 to 1991 he worked as a researcher in the Institute for Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) and from 1991 to 1995 he was Deputy Director of this Institute. Since 2003 he works in the Executive Committee of the World Public Forum (WPF) ‘Dialogue of Civilizations’ as the Executive Director and Head of the Scientific Department; he is also an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Co- author of the teaching course “Civilizational Dimension of State Policy”. He served as project manager of several projects that resulted in publications (supported also by WPF), the most recent of which include Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian (eds), Possible Futures, Volume I, Business As Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown; Volume II, The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism; Volume III, Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order?; Piotr Dutkiewicz and Dmitri Trenin (eds), Russia: The Challenges of Transformation; and Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa (eds), 22 Ideas to Fix the World (2013). Author of the book «The Social History of Post-Communist Russia».

Andrey Klepach

Deputy Chairman of Board and Chief Economist, Vnesheconombank, Russia

In 1981 graduated from the Economic Department of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, specialty — economist, lecturer of political economics, candidate of economic science.

In 1981–1991 worked at the Political Economics Department of the Moscow Lomonosov State University.

In 1991–1998 worked at the Institute of National Economic Forecasting, the Russian Academy of Sciences (lead researcher, head of laboratory).

In 1998–1999 — Director of the Research Department of the Russian Central Bank. 25 Rhodes Forum

In 1999–2004 — Executive Director of the Economic Research Foundation Development Center.

In 2004–2008 — Head of the Macro Economic Forecasting Department of the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry.

From February of 2008 to July of 2014 — Russian Economic Development Deputy Minister.

From July 2014 — Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman (Chief Economist) — Member of the Board.

In 2007 was awarded a title of Honored Economist for improving the Russian financial system, forming and developing its institutions.

In 2011 was awarded the Order of Merit for his many years of exceptional work and active publicactivities.

Anatol Lieven

Georgetown University Qatar, Visiting professor, King’s College London, UK

Professor Anatol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a visiting professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London. His main research project at present is a book on the history of the Pashtun ethnicity in Pakistan and Afghanistan. His most recent books are Pakistan: A Hard Country (2011); America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (second edition 2012); And Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (with John Hulsman, 2007). He has written extensively for the media on issues of contemporary international politics. From 1985 to 1998 he worked as a British journalist in South Asia and the former Soviet Union, and from 2000 to 2007 he worked at think tanks in Washington DC.

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Dirk Loehr

Professor, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Prof. Dr. habil. Dirk Loehr is a Professor of Taxation and Ecological Economics at the Trier University of Applied Sciences (Environmental-Campus Birkenfeld), Germany. His career has included work as tax adviser, as a lecturer for a private real estate academy, as a consultant for the German International Cooperation (GIZ) in Cambodia (land sector), as financial manager in an international hotel group and as a chief department manager for the Deutsche Bahn AG. Loehr is member of the public real estate assessment board (3rd period of office) of Rheinhessen-Nahe, and member of the supreme public real estate assessment board of the state of Rhineland- Palatinate, Germany. Moreover he is head of the Center for Soil Protection and Land Use Policy (Trier / Birkenfeld), and member of the scientific board of the Freiherr-vom-Stein- Akademie für Europäische Kommunalwissenschaften (Freiherrr-vom-Stein-Academy for Urban Studies).

Raffaele Marchetti

Professor of International Relations, LUISS University, Italy

Raffaele Marchetti (Laurea, Rome; PhD, London) is assistant professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS where he holds a Jean Monnet European Module on EU’s Engagement with Civil Society funded by the European Commission. His research interest concerns globalization, global governance, and transnational civil society. He was scientific coordinator of FP6 Strep project SHUR. Human Rights in Conflicts: The Role of Civil Society; and was Fellow at the European University Institute, the Italian National Research Council-CNR, and in the Network of Excellent GARNET. Global Governance, Regionalisation & Regulation. He was also research contractor for the FP6 research project DEMOS. Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society, and the European Union Institute for Security Studies-EUISS. He taught at LSE, American University of Rome, John Cabot University, Universite de Geneve, and University of Naples L’Orientale and carried out research at University of Exeter, University of Nottingham, and University of Urbino. In 2005, he received 27 Rhodes Forum

the Lawrence S. Finkelstein Award by the International Studies Association-ISA, Section on International Organization.

He has published 8 books/edited books and more than 50 articles in journals/edited books. He is currently completing a book on The Other Side of Global Politics: Goals, Strategies, and Impact of Civil Society Mobilizations and working on a long-term project on Constructing Global Legitimacy.

Alex Mezyaev

Head of the Chair of the Academy on International Law and Governance in Kazan, Russia

Dr.of International Law, Professor; Head of the Department of International Law, Law Faculty, University of Management TISBI, Kazan, Russia. Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Kazan Journal of International Law and International Relations. Visiting Professor of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Honorary Consul of the Republic of Namibia in Kazan. Member of Human Rights Law Committee of the International Law Association. Member of Association of Defence Counsel Practicing before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Worked for the defence of number of accused of ICTY (S.Milosevic, V.Seselj, R.Mladic).

Conducted academic research in number of institutions: Fribourg University (Switzerland, 1999-2000, 2004), Leuven University (Belgium, 1997), Asser Institute of International Law (The Netherlands, 2003), Swiss Institute of International and Comparative Law (Switzerland, 2001), Max Plank Institute for Public and International Law (Germany, 2006).

Author of 8 books and more than 120 academic articles in international law (international criminal law, international human rights law, international courts and tribunals etc).

Author of academic course on the position of African states on modern international law. The course was read at several universities, including RUDN (Peoples’ Friendship University, Moscow) and MGIMO (Moscow Federal University of International Relations of Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs).

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Mikhail Makeenko

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Vice-Dean for Research, Russia

Ph.D. in Journalism (2002, Lomonosov Moscow State University). Associate Professor at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics at the Lomonosov MSU. In the 1990s contributed as a journalist to the mass circulation Russian general interest (Moskovsky konsomolets) and sporting (Sovietsky sport) dailies.

Author of three monographs and more than 25 scientific articles. As a scientific advisor oversees Master (since 2001) and Doctoral (since 2010) theses at the Faculty.

Mikhail Makeenko holds a position of a Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Journalism.

Manuel F. Montes

Senior Advisor on Finance and Development, The South Centre

Manuel F. Montes, Senior Advisor on Finance and Development at the South Centre in Geneva, was previously Chief of Development Strategies, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) where he led the team that produced the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS). Before that, he was Chief of Policy Analysis and Development in the UN’s Financing for Development Office;UNDP Regional Programme Coordinator, Asia Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative based at the Regional Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Programme Officer for International Economic Policy at the Ford Foundation in New York, 1999- 2005; Senior Fellow and Coordinator for economics studies at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, 1989-1999; and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of The Philippines, 1981-1989. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University His recent publications have been in areas of macroeconomic policy, development strategy, income inequality, climate change financing and industrial policy. Two recent chapters in collected volumes are: “The MDGs versus an Enabling Global Environment for Development: Issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda” (January 2016) and “Throwing Away Industrial Development Tools: Investment Protection Treaties and Performance Requirements”.(November 2015, with KInda Mohamadieh). 29 Rhodes Forum

Verena Metze-Mangold

President of the German Commission for UNESCO, Germany

Verena Metze-Mangold is the President of the German Commission for UNESCO. She has been a member of the German Commission for UNESCO since 1982, and its Vice-President from 1996 to 2014. Metze-Mangold was the Chairperson of the Program Committee on Communication and Information and from 2001-2009 the German representative on the Intergovernmental Council for the UNESCO program “Information for All.” As a trained journalist she headed the Department of Public Relations of the Hessischer Rundfunk and later Department for the Coordination of Public Events. From 2005 until her retirement she was managing director of the Hessischer Rundfunk Film Fund (HFF-hr). She has a doctorate in political and social sciences, teaches, moderates, publishes and coaches. Since April 2016 she is honorary professor at HTW Berlin (University of Applied Sciences).

Peimin Ni

Executive Vice Director, the Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University (China), Professor, Grand Valley State University (USA) and Former President, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, China

Peimin Ni is Executive Vice Director of the Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University and Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University. He has published over 60 journal articles, book chapters, and essays, and 7 books, including On Confucius, On Reid, Confucius—The Man and the Way of Gongfu, Wandering-Brush and Pen in Philosophical Reflection, and a forthcoming new book, Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of the Lunyu with Annotations. He has served as President of the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA), President of the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP), Editor-in-Chief of the ACPA book series on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, and visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii and the University of Hong Kong.

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Theresa Okafor

Director, Foundation for African Cultural Heritage, Nigeria

Director of the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage. African representative of the World Congress for Families (WCF) and a recipient of the ‘Woman of the Year Award’ WCF, 2015. She served as a delegate of the Holy See Mission at the United Nations in New York (2013-2015) during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Commission on Population Development (CPD) and the General Assembly (GA). Holds a PhD in Education from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an international advisory board member of the Integral Economic Development Management (IEDM) program run by the Catholic University of America, a Director of the Quality Assurance and Research Development Agency, Nigeria (QAARDAN), QAARDAN UK Limited and the CEO of Life League, Nigeria. Theresa is a promoter of pro-life and pro- family values at national and international levels.

Adrian Pabst

Senior Lecturer in Politics, Kent University; Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille (Sciences Po Lille), UK

Adrian Pabst is Reader in Politics at the University of Kent, UK, where he directs the Centre for Federal Studies. He is also Visiting Professor at St Mary’s University Twickenham, UK, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille (Sciences Po), France, and the Russian Presidential Academy in Moscow. His research is at the interface of political thought, political economy and international politics. He is co-editor of Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and of The Crisis of Global Capitalism (Wipf & Stock, 2011). His latest book (co-written with John Milbank) is entitled The Politics of Virtue: Post-liberalism and the Human Future (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016).

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Fabio Petito

Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex, Italy/UK

Fabio Petito joined the Department of International Relations in 2007, having previously taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He has also taught in recent years at the ESCP-EAP in Paris and at ‘L’Orientale’ University in Naples. Fabio holds a Laurea in Economic and Social Disciplines (DES) (magna cum laude) from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and he undertook his MScEcon in International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and his PhD in the department of International Relations at the LSE, where he was also editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

Dimitrios Psarrakis

Economic & Monetary Policy Specialist - ECON, European Union: European Parliament (Greece)

Economic & Monetary Policy Advisor, ECON Committee, European Parliament.

Master in Finance, Department of Economics and Faculty of Arts and Science, Harvard University (2014); Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stanford Business School, Stanford University (2014); Program on International Negotiations, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2004); BSc in Economics and Finance (Graduate Entry Route), Department of Economics, LSE (2015); BA in International Relations, School of Mediterranean Studies, Aegean University (2003).

Currently – Economic & Monetary Policy Advisor, ECON Committee, European Parliament. Previously worked as Consultant in ING Investments, Financial Economist in the Committee of Financial Policy of the Parliament of Greece and Market and Credit Risk Advisor in Proton Bank.

Dimitris Psarrakis is a Research Associate at the Hellenic Foundation of European & Foreign Policy - ELIAMEP (Greece), Member of the American Financial Association (United States) and a Member of the Professional Risk Managers Association (Netherlands).

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Prabhat Patnaik

Retired Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Prabhat Patnaik holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford, U.K., where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at the University of Cambridge, U.K., where he was a Fellow of Clare College, and at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the J.N.U., having retired in 2010 from the Sukhamoy Chakaravarty Chair that he held there. Between 2006 and 2011 he was the Executive Head of the Planning Board of the southern state of Kerala in India. His main research interests are in the areas of Macroeconomics and Development Economics. His books include Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism (Clarendon Press, 1997) and The value of Money (Columbia University Press, 2009).

Xu Qi

Secretary of the Party Committee&Chairman of the Council, Culture Communication Center of Guiyang Confucius Academy, China

PhD and doctorial supervisor, Guizhou Confucius Academy. Chairman of Board, Culture Communication Center; Secretary of the Party Committee; Honorary Chairman of Guizhou Federation of Literature; President of Guizhou Philosophical Society; winner of the State Department special allowance; Lead Expert in the First Group of Guizhou.

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Jan Rath

Professor of Sociology, Member of the Center for Urban Studies, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jan Rath received his MA degree in cultural anthropology and urban studies (1986) and his PhD from Utrecht University (1991), and is now holding a Chair in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Rath is with the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) c.q. its Program Group Political Sociology, and associated with the Center for Urban Studies and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) and in the same university. He is the European Co-Chair of International Metropolis and member of the IMISCOE Research Network.

He is the author and editor of numerous articles, chapters, reports, special issues, and books on the interrelationship of ethnic diversity, urban economies and public space, including Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities (Berg, 2002), Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Venturing Abroad in the Age of Globalization (Berg, 2003), Ethnic Amsterdam (Amsterdam University Press, 2009), Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods (Routledge, 2012), Immigration and the New Urban Landscape: New York and Amsterdam (New York University Press, 2014), as well as a series of three textbooks on international migration and immigrant incorporation (AUP, 2010, 2013 and 2014).

Marietta Stepanyants

Main Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Head of the Center for Oriental Philosophies’ Studies (1980– 2012), Russia

Professor Marietta Stepanyants is a chief research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy. Professor Stepanyants joined the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1959, and from 1980-2012 headed the Centre for Research into Oriental Philosophies. She founded and chairs the UNESCO Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures. Her writings have been published in about 30 countries, and include 15 monographs and about 30 books edited by her. Professor Stepanyants has directed a number of international conferences including the East & West Philosophers’ Conference in Honolulu (1995, 2000). She was elected First Vice President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP), a position she 34 held from 2008 to 2013. Speakers’ Biographies

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Managing Partner, Parnasse International, France

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now Managing Partner of Parnasse International, is the 10th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (2007-2011). Previously, he served as a member of the French National Assembly and Professor of Economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris (2000-2007). He began his career as an Assistant Professor and later Professor of Economics at the University of Paris. Then, he was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of the Economic Planning Agency (1981- 1986). Afterwards, he was elected for the first time at the National Assembly in 1986 and has chaired the Finance standing committee of the House from 1988 to 1991. He has served as Minister of Industry and International Trade in the Cresson (1991-1992) and Beregovoy (1992-1993) cabinets. In 1995, he was elected Mayor of the city of Sarcelles. He then served as Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry of France from June 1997 to November 1999 (Jospin cabinet). His training includes a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Paris. He has also graduated in Law (Paris X), in Business Administration (HEC), in Political Studies (IEP “Sciences Po”, Paris) and in Statistics (Institut de statistiques Paris VI).

Steve Szeghi

Professor of Economics, Wilmington College; Co- Editor GCGI Journal, Globalization of Common Good Initiative, USA

At various times Professor Szeghi has been Department Head and Area Coordinator for Accounting, Business Administration and Economics. In 2009 Steve Szeghi co-authored with Peter Brown, Geoffrey Garver, Keith Helmuth and Robert Howell, “Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy”. In 2005- 06 Szeghi’s article “Lessons in Sustainable Development on the Navajo Nation”, appeared in the “Journal for Economics and Politics”. In 2013 Szeghi’s paper for the 2012 Rhodes Conference was published in World Public Forum’s “Taking Stock – Facing the Future”. He has been the author of many articles on social justice, environmental economics, primers in economics for social activists, and the economies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples as alternative economic systems, in numerous on-line journals and publications such as Journal of Globalization for the Common Good Initiative, 35 Rhodes Forum

World Public Forum, Global Media Journal, Common Dreams, Intelligent HQ, and Share the World’s Resources, as well as printed journals such as Kosmos.

Professor Szeghi writes as well on the spiritual values and ethical aspects of social justice, equality, and ecology as pertaining to the economy and economic ways of thinking. He has had in recent years numerous international engagements as a speaker and presenter focusing on these topics at conferences and forums throughout the world. Starting at the age of 15, Steve Szeghi began working ardently for social justice doing substantial work with the United Farm Workers Union (Cesar Chavez) until his mid-twenties. Steve Szeghi continues to work for social justice, equality, and the environment; working with or consulting for on a pro-bono basis in recent years, environmental and labor organizations, candidates for political office who demonstrate a commitment to social justice and ecology, as well as indigenous groups and tribal governments.

Jayshree Sengupta

Senior Research Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (India)

Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. After graduating from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University with MA in Economics, she studied at the London School of Economics where she completed MSc. Econ and M. Phil in Economics. In 1970-1977 lectured in Miranda House and Indraprastha College (Delhi University). In 1981- 1985 worked as a Program coordinator at Indian Council for International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Worked in Institute of Manpower Research, New Delhi and in NCAER, a premier Think Tank, New Delhi, as editor of the journal Margin.

She was a consultant for World Bank Washington D.C. from 1985-1990 and in OECD (Paris) in 1991. Worked on Gender related education and microcredit issues in Indonesia for the World Bank.

Coauthored a book with Professor S. Sideri of ISS (Hague) on The 1992 Single European Market and the third World (Frank Cass, London) in 1992. In 1994-1998 she was a Consulting Editor at the Obeserver of Business and Politics, a national daily. Senior Editor in Hindustan Times (1998-2004). Author of A nation in Transition: Understanding the Indian Economy, The Global Economic Meltdown, Perspectives from the EU and India. Published articles in scholarly journals on Health, banking and infrastructure as well as on India-EU relations. 36 Speakers’ Biographies

Gyulchokhra Seidova

Chairholder, Branch of UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in the Northern Caucasus, Derbent Branch of Dagestan State University, Russia

Chairman of the Branch of UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in the Northern Caucasus; Professor of Derbent Branch of Dagestan State University, philosophy doctor, Honorary Teacher of the Republic of Dagestan, expert in interreligious dialogue, in Shia Islam.

Author of a number of academic studies, including a number of monographs, articles in scientific journals in Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran. Dr. Seidova organized a number of regional and international conferences, symposiums and seminars. She gives a course of «History of religions», «Philosophy» at Dagestan State University.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Former UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, Malaysia

Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the assistant secretary-general on Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN. He is a visiting senior research fellow from the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and professor in the Applied Economics Department, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

He is founder and chair of IDEAs (International Development Economics Associates). He also served on the advisory board of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD). He was president of the Malaysian Social Science Association (1996-2000), member of Pro- tem Committee of the Asian Social Science Association (1980-1984) and member of the Executive Committee of the International Peace Research Association (1982-1987). In 1989 – 1991, Mr. Sundaram served on various academic and professional committees, as well as Malaysia’s National Economic Consultative Council (1989-1991).

Jomo Kwame Sundaram has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50 books and translated 11 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media. He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals. 37 Rhodes Forum

Peter Schatzer

Official Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean to the United Nations, Austria

Following studies in Vienna and work as journalist and with NGOs, worked for the UN Population Fund from 1979 to 1984. From 1984 to 1986 served as personal aide to the chairman of the InterAction Council of former Heads of State and Government, Kurt Waldheim, and following his election to the Presidency of Austria, as his personal assistant.

During his career with the UN (1979 – 1985) and the International organization for Migration, IOM (1986 – 2015), he was posted to Geneva, Vienna, Rome, Amman and Berlin. For IOM, he managed the organization’s operations in the Mediterranean region, helped develop IOM’s cooperation with the UN, produced the first World Migration Report, oversaw the organization of the first Diaspora Ministerial meeting, and was involved in humanitarian operations in Jordan, Mozambique and Kosovo. His most recent positions with IOM were Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser to the Director General at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva.

Since 2013 Amb. Schatzer represents the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) as Permanent Observer at the UN and other international Organizations in Vienna, Austria. He continues teaching about humanitarian and demographic topics, most recently about the “Ethics of Migration Management” at the International Metropolis professional development courses held at Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada and about international humanitarian law in Dubai at the DIHAD. He has also lectured at a number of other higher education establishments in Germany (Osnabrück University, Hertie school of Management, Berlin) and Italy (Bergamo University).

He is a member of the oversight board of the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility, Future”, of the International Institute for Humanitarian Law (IIHL, San Remo, Italy) as well as a board member of the International Metropolis Steering Committee and the US Association for International Migration (US-AIM).

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Christine De Vollmer

President, Latin American Alliance for the Family (Venezuela)

Christine de Marcellus de Vollmer is the founder and president of the Alliance for the Family. She is also the founder and president of the Latin American Alliance for the Family.

Mrs Vollmer has been a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family for over 15 years and she is a founding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. She has served as a member of the delegation of the Holy See to the United Nations from 1990-1995.

As president of the World Organization for the Family and member of the World Congress of Families Planning Committees, Mrs. Vollmer has organized conferences on the family all over Europe and Latin America.

In April 2010, Mrs. Vollmer was awarded with the Global Leadership Award, a recognition for her impact on the international pro-family movement and the unifying element between religious groups in the defense of the natural family.

Since 1984, within the Alliance for the Family, a team headed by Christine Vollmer has developed a new pedagogy to effectively teach children and young people the necessary values, virtues and skills for successful married and family life. This ground-breaking new pedagogy, centered on the Alive to the World curriculum, is now international and welcomed by people of all faiths.

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Karsten Voigt

Spokesman of the Parliament group of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, Germany

Karsten D. Voigt is member of the board of Aspen Germany and Senior Associate fellow and member of the presidium of the German Council on Foreign Policy. From 1976 - 1998 he was member of the German Bundestag. There he served as Foreign Policy Speaker of the Social- democratic Fraction from 1983 to 1998. For many years he was chairman of the German-Soviet and later the German-Russian parliamentary group. From 1992 to 1994 he was Vice-president and from 1994 to 1996 - President of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO. From 1999 to 2010 he served as the German-American Coordinator in the Federal Foreign Office.

Winfried Veit

Senior Lecturer at Freiburg University, Germany

Graduated and received his PhD in Freie Universität Berlin.

Lecturer on European Foreign and Security Policy at IES EU Center, Freiburg. Lecturer on International Relations at University of Freiburg. Director of Liaison Office to International Organizations of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Geneva/Switzerland (2007–2010). Director of FES country office in Paris/France (2003–2007). Director of FES country office in Tel Aviv/Israel (1996–2003). Head of Department for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in FES head office, Bonn/Germany (1993–1996). Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town/South Africa (1990–1993). Head of Department for research and consulting programs in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in FES head office, Bonn/Germany (1985–1990). Research Fellow and Country Desk Officer for France and Turkey, Research Department of FES, Bonn/Germany (1979– 1985). Visiting Research Fellow at the “Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa” (CODESRIA), Dakar/Senegal (1976–1979).

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Jens Wendland

Foreign Professor, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Professor, University of Arts, Berlin, Germany

Jens Wendland studied law and media and cultural studies.

After law school he worked for the arts section of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Spiegel” and “Die Zeit”. From 1968 he began his involvement in broadcasting, first with Radio Bremen, then the West German Radio.

From 1971 to 1983 he worked as an editor of the Radio, later he took part in the development of new transmission lines and shapes such as: «MEDIA - the Future of Information». From 1979 to 1983 he was head of press and public relations, where he dealt with policy issues, especially development of new media.

From 1989 to 1991, he took care of construction and program management of the regional publisher television Tele-West food. From 1991 to 1992 he was head of department at the Radio Free Berlin culture and arts program coordinator of SFB 3 (now RBB) in radio broadcasting. In 1992 he became director of Radio Free Berlin Radio.

Jens Wendland began his teaching career as professor at the Institute for dance at the University of Music and Drama Theatre Cologne (1973 to 1976).

Since 1984 he started reading lectures and seminars, constitution, management, organization, new media and program development at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Gottingen, Munster, Berlin and Dortmund.

Since 2004 Prof. Jens Wendland is German director of the Free Russian-German Institute of Journalism (FRDIP). Also since 2004 he is professor of Moscow State “Lomonosov” University. In addition, he has worked as an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Berlin (UDK) since February 2005.

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Laura Yerekesheva

Deputy Director, Institute of Oriental Studies; UNESCO Chair Coordinator, Institute of Oriental Studies, UNESCO Chair “Science and Spirituality”, Kazakhstan

Dr. Laura Yerekesheva received her PhD (History) at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies (Moscow) in 1998. In 1992 she graduated diplomatic courses at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs of India. In 2008 she received the Doctor Habilitus Degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies (Almaty).

She was a senior lecturer (1998-2001) and is professor (since 2013) at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Oriental Faculty.

From 2000 onwards she worked as a leading research fellow and research analyst at the following think tanks: Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies, Center for Foreign Policy and Analysis at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Eurasian Economic Community.

Since 2002 she is affiliated with the Institute of Oriental Studies (Almaty), where she works now as Deputy Director (International Affairs), Head of the Department of Central and South Asian Studies, and as a coordinator of the UNESCO Chair “Science and Spirituality”.

Dr. Laura Yerekesheva was a visiting Research Fellow at Yale University, Center for International and Area Studies (USA) in 2001 and 2002-2003 (as a Fulbright Fellow); at the UN’s University for Peace in 2002; Central European University (Hungary) in 2000. She was ICCR Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla) in 2010-2012.

Author of Religion and Politics in South Asia (2005), Culture and Religion in the History of Central Asia (2013), Central Asia in XX Century: Religious and Secular Dimensions, Culture and Religion: Methodological Studies. Author of a number of publications within the frames of UNESCO Chair activities.

Participated in conferences and workshops worldwide and published more than 70 research articles.

Dr. Laura Yerekesheva is a member of the Executive Committee of UNESCO Chairs/UNITWIN Network on Interreligious Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding, Advisory Committee for UNESCO Project Developing e-learning resources for promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding and the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS).

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Li Yonghui

Professor and Dean, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Executive Director, Research Center for Public Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Ph.D., Professor and Dean, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University; Executive Director, Research Center for Public Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Member of Chinese International Relations Studies Society, Member of United Nations Association of the People’s Republic of China, Standing member of America Association of the People’s Republic of China, Standing member of National Society for College International Politics Studies, Vice-chairman of Beijing Society for College International Politics Studies.

Research Field: International Relations, American Politics and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy Strategy, Public Diplomacy.

Natalia Yakunina

Chairman, Board of Trustees, “Sanctity of Motherhood” All-Russian Program, Russia

Chairperson of the Russian National Program “Sanctity of motherhood”. Member of the Management Board of the Inter-regional public Foundation of St. Andrew. Member of the Coordinating Council under the President of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the National Action Strategy for Children for 2012-2017. Member of the Patriarchal Council for the Family and maternity protection. Member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Center of protection of motherhood and family values at the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service. Member of the «Union of Orthodox Women». Member of the Coordinating Council of the National Parents’ Association. Member of the International Women Forum.

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Miloš Zeman

President of the Czech Republic

Miloš Zeman was born on 28 September 1944. His father worked as a postal clerk and his mother was a teacher. His parents got divorced shortly after his birth and he grew up with his mother.

1950- 1959 Elementary school in the city of Kolín.

1959 - 1963 Secondary school of Economics in the city of Kolín. He is banned from continuing his studies at a university for writing a school essay about the first Czechoslovak President T.G. Masaryk.

1963 - 1967 Works at an engineering plant Tatra Kolín.

In 1965 he takes up long-distance studies at the University of Economics in Prague. In 1967 he switches to full-time studies at the same University.

In 1968 he becomes member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

In 1969 he graduates summa cum laude, having defended his thesis on economic forecasting entitled Futurology and the Future. He starts teaching economic forecasting at the University of Economics in Prague the same year.

In 1970 he is expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia for disagreeing with the Soviet occupation of the country and with the subsequent period of „normalisation».

In between 1970 and 1971 he has no stable employment and makes a living publishing studies under an assumed name.

In 1971 he joins the Sportpropag Company, where he builds a complex economic modelling department called «Slušovice Research.»

His first marriage lasts from 1971 to 1978. He has a son David who now works as a medical doctor specializing in cerebrospinal fluid.

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In 1984 he is fired from work for publishing a journal entitled Methodological Problems of Social Science Research, which is considered harmful to the regime. The Communist Party also closes down his department of complex economic modelling.

In 1984 he starts work in the Agrodat agricultural enterprise, where he develops simulation models of agricultural systems.

In 1986 he becomes member of the World Futures Research Society.

In September 1989 he is fired from work for the third time for publishing a politically controversial article entitled Economic forecasting and Reconstruction in the Technical Magazine.

He participates in the anti-communist demonstration on 17 November 1989 in Prague. In late November and early December 1989 he delivers speeches at demonstrations in Letná in Prague and holds political discussions in theatres and universities.

In 1990 he starts work at the Economic Forecasting Institute. In late January 1990 he is nominated by the Civic Forum to become a representative at the Federal Assembly.

In June 1990 he is re-elected to the Federal Assembly representing the Civic Forum. He becomes chairman of the Budget Committee and member of the leadership group of the Federal Assembly.

In the 1992 general elections he runs as a candidate for the Czech Social-Democratic Party (ČSSD), which joins after the collapse of the Civic Forum, and is re-elected as member of the Federal Assembly.

In February 1993 he is elected as leader of the Czech Social-Democratic Party. The party obtains 7% of votes in the general election in 1992, 27% of votes in the general election in 1996, and 32% in 1998. He is re-elected as leader in 1995, 1997 and again in 1999. In 2001 he gives up his nomination for party leadership, because he feels he has fulfilled his task of turning the Social-Democratic Party into the strongest political party in the Czech Republic.

In 1993 he marries for a second time and has a daughter Kateřina who is now a grammar school student.

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In 1996 he becomes chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

In 1998 he becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.

In 2002 he gives up a second term as Prime Minister, because he has fulfilled his task of leading the country out of an economic crisis.

In the autumn of 2002, members and supporters of the Czech Social-Democratic Party call on him to stand as candidate for President of the Czech Republic.

In 2003 he loses in his bid to become President of the Czech Republic because 27 deputies of his own Czech Social-Democratic Party vote against him.

In 2003 he retires and moves to live in the Vysočina region in the Czech Republic.

In 2005 he publishes a succesful political memoir All My Mistakes in Politics, with 135,000 copies sold. The book is later declared best-seller of 2005.

In 2006 he supports the Czech Social-Democratic Party in the election campaign, but he refuses a renewed offer to stand as candidate for President.

In March 2007 he leaves the Czech Social-Democratic Party because of policy disagreements with the then- leader Jiří Paroubek.

In December 2009 he establishes a new political party, the Party of Citizen Rights (SPOZ), and is elected as its leader in March 2010. In the general elections of 2010, the party receives 4.3% of the vote. Having failed to fulfill his goal to exceed the five percent limit for entering the Parliament, he resigns as leader of the party. In November 2010, the party elects him honorary chairman.

In June 2012 he is the first of all presidential candidates to collect 50,000 signatures required in support of a nomination for President of the Czech Republic.

In the second round of the historically first direct presidential elections, he is elected President of the Czech Republic with 54.8% of the popular vote.

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Minghao Zhao

Research Fellow at the China Center for Contemporary World Studies, China

Graduated and received his PhD in Freie Universität Berlin.

Research Fellow at the China Center for Contemporary World Studies, the in-house think tank of International Department of the CPC’s Central Committee (IDCPC). Full member of China National Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). Prior to joining the IDCPC since 2009, he worked at the Institute for International and Strategic Studies, Peking University and was an executive editor for China International Strategy Review. He has been awarded the IDCPC Prize for Excellence in Research. His research focuses on Chinese foreign policy, China-US relations and Indo-Pacific Asia security. He has written policy reports and working papers for the Center for American Progress (CAP), Italy Institute of International Affairs (IAI), the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and others. He was a member of the Joint Working Group on Global Trends and China-US Relations, a project co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council and the China Institute for International Studies. His opinion articles have been featured in People’s Daily, China Daily, New York Times, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera English, Nikkei Asian Review, and The Diplomat. He holds a PhD in International Relations, a MA in International History and a BA in Art Studies from Peking University. He also earned a LL.M in International Human Rights Law from a joint program by Lund University, Sweden and Peking University.

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Richard A. Werner

Professor of international banking; Director, Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development, University of Southampton, UK

Born in Germany in 1967, holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. He is a Member of Linacre College, Oxford, and has also studied at the University of Tokyo. Richard has been Professor of International Banking at the University of Southampton for over twelve years. He is founding director of its Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development, which is the first research centre to focus on the link between the financial sector and sustainability issues. He is also a member of the ECB Shadow Council and founding chair of Local First, a community interest company establishing not-for-profit community banks in the UK. His recommended charity is the Association for Research on Banking and the Economy (arbe.org.uk).

Richard previously was a professor of monetary, macro and development economics at Frankfurt University and tenured assistant professor at Sophia University, Tokyo. He has also taught development finance and sustainability at Moscow State University. His work experience includes over four years as highly rated chief economist at Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd., a stint as Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns Asset Management Ltd., many years managing global macro funds, several years as senior consultant to the Asian Development Bank and periods as visiting scholar and visiting researcher at the Japanese Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan, respectively. He was also the first Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan.

In 1992, while European Commission Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute for Economics and Statistics, Richard proposed the disaggregation of credit and its impact on asset markets and growth with his ‘Quantity Theory of Credit’ (see http://www.res.org.uk/view/art5jul13features. html). In 1995, he advanced the concept of ‘quantitative easing’ in Japan (published in the leading daily newspaper, the Nikkei, on 2 September 1995). His book ‘Princes of the Yen’ was a No. 1 bestseller in Japan and warned of the coming creation of credit bubbles and banking crises in the eurozone. So did his 2005 book ‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ (Palgrave Macmillan). In 2014, Richard published the first empirical proof of the fact that banks create money out of nothing when they grant loans. The World Economic Forum, Davos, selected him as “Global Leader for Tomorrow” in 2003.

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