PARTICIPANTS

Mustapha Abubakar
Mustapha Abubakar is an official at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Ankara, Turkey.

Ahmed Hussein Al Basha
Ahmed Hussein Al Basha is the Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to the Republic of Turkey. Previously, he served as Yemen’s Deputy Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources.

Ishak Alaton
Ishak Alaton is the Chairman of the Board of Alarko Holding A.S. and Chairman of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation.

Sharif Muhammad Hasan al-Banna
Sharif Muhammad Hasan al-Banna is the President of the Union of Muslim Students in the United Kingdom. He is also a member of the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office Hajj Advisory Group.

Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Previously, she served as the United States Secretary of State.

Mockbul Ali
Mockbul Ali is the Ethnic Minorities and Faith Groups Adviser for the Partnerships and Networks Development Unit at the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Mohammed AbdulQader Al-Jassem
Mohammed AbdulQader Al-Jassem is the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Watan daily newspaper as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek in Arabic. He also oversees the Arabic edition of the Foreign Policy magazine issued by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola
Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola is the Commissioner for Works for the Lagos State Government in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Nerkez Arifhodzic
Nerkez Arifhodzic is the Ambassador of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Republic of Turkey. He has also served as a Special Envoy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ayse Arkis
Ayse Arkis is a Resident Representative of the International Republican Institute in Istanbul, Turkey.

David L. Arnett
David L. Arnett is the Consul General to the Republic of Turkey for the United States Department of State.

Luis Ayala
Luis Ayala is the Secretary General of Socialist International. Previously, he was the President of the Worldwide Organization of Social Democratic Youth.

Rokia Ba
Rokia Ba is the President of the Collective of Women of Mali. She also directs the communications programs in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Dr. Marouf Bakhit Nader
Dr. Marouf Bahkit is the Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Republic of Turkey. Previously, he was the General Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

Pekin Baran
Pekin Baran is the Vice-Chairman of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association.

Jon Benjamin
Jon Benjamin is the Head of Human Rights Policy Department at the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Robert Benjamin
Robert Benjamin is the Regional Director of the Central and Eastern Europe program at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Previously, he worked at Chemonics International on economic development programs in Central Europe.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca is a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary for Global Affairs of the United States Department of State. She previously held various positions within the Department of State and worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ankara, Turkey.

Carol M. Browner
Carol M. Browner is a Principal of the Albright Group LLC. She previously served as the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Shari Bryan
Shari Bryan is the Regional Director of the Southern and East Africa program at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She is also an attorney with expertise in civil, criminal and international law.

Rusen Çakir
Rusen Çakir is the coordinator of the Democracy, Civil Society and Islamic World Program at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also a journalist at the Daily Vatan.

Kim Campbell
Kim Campbell is the former Prime Minister of Canada and is currently the Secretary General of the Club of Madrid. She is also Lecturer on Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, University.

Leslie Campbell
Leslie Campbell is the Regional Director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Previously, he was the Chief of Staff to the leader of the New Democratic Party in the Canadian House of Commons.

Ismail Cem
Ismail Cem is the President of the New Turkey Party. Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Culture of the Republic of Turkey.

Haja Alari Cole
Haja Alari Cole is the Ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Republic of Turkey.

Yvette S. Daoud
Yvette S. Daoud is the Advisor for Relations with the Islamic World of the Direction for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Piet de Klerk
Piet de Klerk is the Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Previously, he was the Director of the Office of External Relations and Policy Coordination for the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Will Derks
Will Derks is a Policy Officer for Asia at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy and has worked at the International Institute for Asian Studies.

Alkis Diamantopoulos
Alkis Diamantopoulos is a Senior Official with the Europe Aid Cooperation Office at the European Commission, specializing on human rights and governance programs in the Middle East and Mashreq regions.

Ivan Doherty
Ivan Doherty is the Director of Political Party Programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Previously, he worked for over 15 years with Ireland's Fine Gael Party in a number of senior positions.

Walter Douglas
Walter Douglas is a Public Affairs Officer at the United States Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cem Duna
Cem Duna is a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association.

Eric Edelman
Eric Edelman is the Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Turkey.

Nihat Eski
Nihat Eski is a Member of Parliament in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, representing the Christian Democratic Party.

Mehmet Mir Dengir Firat
Mehmet Mir Dengir Firat is a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Turkey and Vice-Chairman of the Justice and Development Party.

Karen Fogg
Karen Fogg is the Secretary General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. She previously served as the Head of Delegation in Ankara for the European Union Commission.

Christopher Fomunyoh
Christopher Fomunyoh is senior associate for Africa and the Regional Director of Central and West Africa for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He is also an adjunct professor of African Politics and Government at Georgetown University.

David French
David French is the Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Previously, he was the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Institute.

Njidda Ahmed Gella
Njidda Ahmed Gella is a Member of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Dr. Mehmet Gok
Dr. Memhet Gok is a Board member of the Turkish Democracy Foundation. Previously, he was a professor of political science at Bogazici University.

Husain Haqqani
Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar from Pakistan at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served as adviser to Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif and as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka.

Ratih Hardjono
Ratih Hardjono is a journalist in the Republic of Indonesia and writes for the Nieman Report at Harvard University. She is the former Presidential Secretary of Indonesia.

Rachmawati Husein
Rachmawati Husein is the Vice President of the Nasyiatul Aisyiyah, a women’s youth wing of the Muhammadiya movement in the Republic of Indonesia. She is the Director of External Affairs and Public Relations at the Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta.

Dr. Omar Kader
Dr. Omar Kader is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pal-Tech Inc. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Arab-American Anti- Discrimination Committee.

Lisa N. Kaplan
Lisa N. Kaplan is a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, where she currently covers the Middle East and Pakistan. Previously, she worked on multilateral human rights policy at the United Nations General Assembly and the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Farah Karimi
Farah Karimi is a Member of Parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, representing the Green Left Party.

Suat Kiniklioglu
Suat Kiniklioglu is a Development Officer with the Canadian International Development Agency in Ankara, Turkey.

Emre Kocaoglu
Emre Kocaoglu is the President of the Turkish Democracy Foundation and a former Member of Parliament.

Kemal Koprulu
Kemal Koprulu is Chairman of The Ari Movement of the Republic of Turkey.

Dr. Abdul-Rasheed Lawal
Dr. Abdul-Rasheed Lawal is the Commissioner for Education for the Lagos State Government in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Mohammad Bakura Lawan
Mohammad Bakura Lawan is a Member of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Michael Leir
Michael Leir is the Ambassador of Canada to the Republic of Turkey.

Dr. Etyen Mahçupyan
Dr. Etyen Mahçupyan is a Senior Program Manager with the Democratization Program for the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation.

Peter Manikas
Peter Manikas is the Regional Director of Asia for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Previously, he served as a consultant to the chairman of the United Nations Commission of Experts for the former Yugoslavia.

Lies Marcoes-Natsir
Lies Marcoes-Natsir is a Program Officer specializing in gender programs for Islamic and civil society organizations at the Asia Foundation in Indonesia. She is also a Senior Researcher at Insan Hitawasana Sejahtera (Social Science Research and Consultancy).

Dr. Radwan Masmoudi
Dr. Radwan Masmoudi is the Founder and President of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Center’s quarterly publication, Muslim Democrat.

Roel von Meijenfeldt
Roel von Meijenfeldt is the Executive Director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy and former Secretary General of the Standing Committee of NGOs in Brussels.

Merat Mercan
Merat Mercan is a Member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Justice and Development Party in the Republic of Turkey.

Mohammed K. Ndanusa
Mohammed K. Ndanusa is the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Republic of Turkey.

Issa N’diaye
Issa N’diaye served as the Minister of Education and the Minister of Culture in the Republic of Mali. He is currently a professor at the University of Bamako.

Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck
Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck is the President of Liberal International. She is also the Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

Hakeem Odumosu
Hakeem Odumosu is the Chairman Environmental Commission for the Lagos State Government in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Mostafa Sozel Ozel
Mostafa Sozel Ozel is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Republic of Turkey.

Dr. Can Paker
Dr. Can Paker is the Chairman and Directorate General of Turk Henkel. He is also the head of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation in Istanbul, Turkey.

Hafiz Pasha
Hafiz Pasha is a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General. He is also the United Nations Development Programme Assistant Administrator and Regional Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific.

Lord Adam Hafejee Patel
Lord Adam Hafejee Patel is a Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom and a member of the Home Secretary’s Race Relations Advisory Forum. He is also the founder and current President of the Blackburn Indian Workers Association.

David L. Phillips
David L. Phillips is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventative Action at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Amal Sabbagh
Dr. Amal Sabbagh is the Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women. Previously, she was the Director General of the Regional Centre on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development for the Near East.

Federica Sabbati
Federica Sabbati is the Secretary General of Liberal International. She previously held several positions within the European Parliament.

Iqbal Akm Sacranie
Iqbal Akm Sacranie is the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom.

Abdulaziz M. Sallam
Abdulaziz M. Sallam is a Political Counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Ankara, Turkey. Previously, he served at the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Prague, Czech Republic.

Ali Sarikaya
Ali Sarikaya is an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey.

Dr. Serif Sayin
Dr. Serif Say¦n is the Executive Director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation. Previously, he was a public management specialist with the World Bank.

Murat Sengul
Murat Sengul is the General Secretary of the Turkish Democracy Foundation.

Jakob Simonsen
Jakob Simonsen is the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme in Ankara, Turkey. Previously, he was the Deputy Regional Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent State countries.

Anna Maria Stame Cervone
Anna Maria Stame Cervone is the Christian Democrat and People’s Party International Representative before the United Nations.

Issa A. Suenu
Issa A. Suenu is the Head of Protocol of the Lagos State Government in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thierno Hady Thiam
Thierno Hady Thiam is a professor and a member of the High Islamic Council of Mali.

Dr. Kadir Topbas                     
Dr. Kadir Topbas is the Mayor of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality in the Republic of Turkey.

Esra Tozun
Esra Tozun is the Coordinator for Istanbul for the Turkish Democracy Foundation.

Haluk R. Tukel
Haluk R. Tukel is the Secretary General of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association.

Claire Van der Vaeren
Claire Van der Vaeren is the Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme in Ankara, Turkey. Previously, she was the UNDP Assistant Resident Representative in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Kenneth Wollack
Kenneth Wollack is the President of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He previously co-edited the Middle East Policy Survey, a Washington-based newsletter.

David Yang
David Yang is the Senior Advisor of the United Nations Development Programme in Washington, DC.

Takeo Yoshikawa
Takeo Yoshikawa is an official at the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Turkey.

Dr. Manfred Ziemek
Dr. Manfred Ziemek is the Resident Representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, he served as the foundation’s Director for Latin America Programs and its Resident Representative in Seoul, Korea.

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