The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Germany 2014
“Cultural Diplomacy in the German Public & Private Sectors”
(Berlin; July 29th - 31st, 2014)
Symposium Speakers & Delegates
Speakers & Delegates during the conferences include among others leading politicians, senior diplomats, leading governmental officials, senior academics, renowned authors, journalists, and celebrated artists. These speakers will include a large number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board, please click here.The following are among the speakers for the Symposium:
- H. E. Amb. Alberto Guani
Ambassador of Uruguay to Germany - H.E. Amb. Caetano Luís Pequito De Almeida Sampaio
Ambassador of Portugal to Germany - The Hon. Dirk Niebel
Minister of Economic Cooperation & Development of Germany (2009-13) - Dr. Elke Ritt
Head, Creative Europe, the British Council Germany; Member of the Faculty, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Dr. Henning Riecke
Program Director, Transatlantic Relations, German Council on Foreign Relations - Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer, MdB
Member of the German Parliament - Amb. Karl-Erik Normann
Faculty Member, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies; Former Swedish Ambassador; Secretary General, European Cultural Parliament - Katja Hermes
Director, German Office, Sound Diplomacy - Mila Zaharieva-Schmolke
Founder, Youth Connected By Sounds International Radio - Dr. Ognian Hishow, Researcher
EU-Integration, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - Dr. R Andreas Kraemer
Founding Director of Ecologic Institute in Berlin - Dr. Tahsin Yilmaz
Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Turkey to Germany - Tatsuya Machida
Cultural Counselor, Embassy of Japan to Germany - Stephan Mayer, MdB
Member of the German Parliament - Prof. Dr. Thomas Gil
Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Literature, Science and Art History, Technical University of Berlin - Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho
Professor, Institute for Cultural Studies, Humboldt University - State Secretary Thomas Silberhorn (MdB)
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation of Germany - Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brückner
Academic Director - Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies (CCDS)
