Dr. George Vella
State President of Malta
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The Council
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Heads of State & Government
Dr. Heinz Fischer
State President of Austria
Cellou Dalein Diallo
Prime Minister of Guinea (frm.)
Danilo Türk
State President of Slovenia (frm.)
Dritan Abazovic
Prime Minister of Montenegro (as serving)
Ivo Josipovic
State President of Croatia (frm.)
John Bruton
Prime Minister of Ireland (frm.)
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Prime Minister of Norway (frm.)
Lassina Zerbo
Prime Minister Burkina Faso, CTBTO Executive Director (frm.)
Mikulas Dzurinda
Prime Minister of Slovakia, Director of Martens Centre in Brussels
Petre Roman
Prime Minister of Romania (frm.)
Sultan DYMM Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail
Raja of Perlis, King of Malaysia (2001-06)
Tarja Halonen
State President of Finland (frm.)
Yves Leterme
Prime Minister of Belgium (frm.)
Zoran Zaev
Prime Minister, Macedonia (frm.)
Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim
President of Mauritius
Multilateral Executives
Olga Algayerova
UN
Margaritis Schinas
EU Commission
Donald J. Johnston
OECD Secretary General, IFIMES President (frm.)
Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin
OPEC Secretary General act. (frm.)
Amb. Isiaka A. Imam
D-8 Secretary General
Lamberto Zannier
OSCE Secretary-General (frm.)
Abdulhakim Elwaer
FAO Director General Assistant
António Vitorino
EU Commissioner, Director-General IOM (frm.)
Claude Mandil
IEA ED (frm.)
Dato’ Ku Jaafar Ku Shaari
D-8 Secretary General(frm.) (while serving)
Dato’ Misran Karmain
ASEAN Sec-General Deputy (while serving)
David M. Malone
UN Undersecretary General and UNU Rector (while serving)
Fatih Birol
IEA Executive Director
Franz Fischler
EU Commissioner, ALPBACH Forum President (while serving)
Jan Figel’
European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture (frm.)
Kandeh K. Yumkella
UNIDO Director General (frm.)
Margaritis Schinas
EU Commission Vice-President (while serving)
Nasser Kamal
Union for the Mediterranean Secretary General
Olivér Várhelyi
EU Commissioner European Neighbourhood and Enlargement
Sheel Kant Sharma
SAARC Secretary General (frm.)
Suleiman J. Al-Herbish
Director General OFID (while serving) (KSA)
Taha Ayhan
ICYF President
Walter Schwimmer
Council of Europe Sec-General (frm.)
Yusuf Hassan Khalawi
ICCIA-ICCD Secretary General
Anita Gradin
EU Commissioner, (frm.) (while serving) (S)
Deborah Stokes
Asian Development Bank Vice President (frm.), TI Board (Aus)
Niklas Hedman
UN, OOSA Director
Albert R. Ramdin
OAS Secretary-General (2025-30); Surinam's Foreign Minister (2020-25)
Khaled El-Enany
UNESCO Director-General (2025-29)
Moussa Faki Mahamat
African Union Commission Chairman (2017-25); Prime Minister of Chad (2003-2005) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2008-17)
Pascal Lamy
WTO Director General (2005-13), Jacques Delors Institutes
Government Ministers
Ernest Petric
President of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia (frm.)
Geoffrey W. Hoon
UK Defence Secretary
Brice Lalonde
Environment Minister and French Presidential Candidate
Caspar Einem
Science Minister (Aut)
Dato’ Mukhriz Tun Mahathir
MITI Minister Deputy, Malaysia (frm.) (while serving)
Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah
Foreign Minister Malaysia, Minister Deputy of Higher Education (then, while serving)
Davor Domazet Loso
Admiral, Chief-of-Staff of the Croatian Supreme Military Command (frm.)
Don Pramudwinai
Foreign Minister, Thailand; Deputy Prime Minister (frm.)
Elaine Lan Chao
US Secretary of Labor (than Transport) (while serving)
Guy Roberts
US Defence Secretary Assistant (frm.)
Helga Konrad
Austrian Minister for Women and MP, OSCE Special Rep on Trafficking in Human Beings (frm.)
Jan Petersen
Foreign Affairs Minister Norway
Marty Natalegawa
Foreign Minister of Indonesia (frm.)
Senator Bogdan Klich
Defence Minister of Poland (frm.)
Surin Pitsuwan
Foreign Minister and ASEAN Secretary General (frm.)
Werner Fasslabend
Austrian Defence Minister (frm.) AIES President
Yanis Varoufakis
Finance Minister of Greece, author
Yerzhan Kazykhanov
Foreign Affairs Minister, Kazakhstan (frm.)
Kim Sung-hwan
South Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (frm.)
Vladimir Norov
Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan (2006-2010, 2022), SCO Secretary General (2019-21)
Diplomacy & Civil Society
Charles Oppenheimer
CEO Oppenheimer Project & Head of Family Trust
Hakima el Haite
Liberal International London
Christoph Schönborn
Cardinal, Austrian Bishop's Conference President (frm.) (while serving)
Jack N. Rakove
Stanford University Professor (Pulitzer Prize for History)
Ouided Bouchamaoui
Nobel Prize laureate
Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs
Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General
Sanyogita Atrey
HRH Princess