PAST EDITIONS

Speakers

Syrian refugee, entrepneur, founder of PortugalB2B and CEO of IBTEKAR
Country: Syria

Professor; Lawyer; Civic Entrepreneurt
Country: Italy

Professor; Author
Country: United Kingdom

Director Ana and Vlade Foundation
Country: Macedonia

Researcher in Human Rights Law School of Nova University Lisbon
Country: Portugal

Anja is the founder of the African Children´s Aid Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF), and of the Center for Children "Land of Hope" in Nigeria
Country: Denmark

Public Prosecutor, Eurojust
Country: Portugal

Former Public Prosecutor and politician
Country: Montenero di Bisaccia, Italy

Professor, Vice Dean Lisbon University
Country: Portugal

Faculty Member of Georgetown University, Chaim Weizmann Chair in International Relations, and Professor at the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Country: Israel

Indian politician, former Minister of Law and Justice and former Minister of State in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Country: Delhi, India

Judge; Head of Julian Assange legal team
Country: Spain

Founder and President of Médecins sans Frontières and of Médecins du Monde, Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France
Country: FRANCE

Cluster Spacecraft Operations Manager at the European Space Operation Center (ESOC)
Country: Portugal

Judge
Country: Mação, Portugal

European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
Country: Beja, Portugal

Lawyer and Human Rights Activist
Country: Portugal

Journalist
Country: Belgium

Director of Global Partnerships for BrandsEye
Country:

Minister of Internal Affairs of the of the XXI Constitutional Government of the Portuguese Republic, and Professor at the University Autónoma of Lisbon
Country: Portugal

Dean and Full Professor at Nova School of Business & Economics
Country: Portugal

Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration
Country: New York City, United States

President of the Migration Policy Institute Europe in Brussels; President of Emeritus and a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington.
Country:

Full Professor of Human Resource Management at Rotterdam School of Management
Country: The Netherlands

Portuguese Ambassador to the United States of America
Country: Angola

Associate Professor at NOVA - School of Business and Economics, Nottingham Business School independent Non-Executive Director
Country: Portugal

Politician, Superior Inspector of Finance
Country: Portugal

Intelligence contractor; Systems Administrator; activist
Country: United States of America

Author, student
Country: Iraq

Professor, researcher, author
Country: Portugal

Member of the European Parliament
Country: Portugal

Senior Analyst at the Counterterrorism Center - CIA
Country:United States of America

Professor, Consultant
Country: Portugal

Journalist, Subdirector of O Expresso
Country: Portugal

Head of Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
Country: Portugal

Grassroots activist; author; public speaker; professor
Country: United States

O&IM Group, Aston Business School of Aston University
Country:

Former President of Bolivia; Leader of the Bolivian opposition, President of public policy think tank FUNDEMOS
Country: Bolivia

EASO Executive Director
Country:

1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Former President of East Timor, Chair of the UN High Level Panel on Peace Operations, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Multilateralism
Country: East Timor

Nobel prize-winning economist, bestselling author, professor, Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.
Country: United States of America

Social entrepreneur, coordinator of innovating projects and startups
Country:

Ambassador, currently Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
Country: Mexico

Commissioner of the UN Inquiry on Syria, American Diplomat and Expert in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
Country:

Writer, lecturer and broadcaster; specialist in multiculturalism, pluralism and race
Country: Telangana, India

Prime Minister of Malta 2004-13, Minister of Finance, 2004-08, Minister of Social Policy, 1998-2004
Country: Malta

Honorary Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador, Former External & Governmental Affairs Adviser to the CEO and COO, BNP Paribas Fortis, and Senior Manager of BNP Paribas Group
Country: Etterbeek, Belgium

Activist and founder of METAdrasi (NGO)
Country: Greece

Member of the House of Lords, Global Head of Citizenship for KPMG International. Formerly: the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and the BBC’s Head of Public Affairs
Country:

Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at The City College of New York; Founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA); Editor, Journal of the APPA; Author, Speaker, Counselor, and Consultant.
Country: United States of America

Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and Albright Capital, 64th Secretary of State of the United States
Country: Czech Republic

President of the Portuguese Republic
Country: Portugal

Secretary of State for European Affairs XXI Constitutional Government of the Republic of Portugal
Country: Portugal

Founder of ‘Maria Cristina Foundation’; Runner / Hiker (Marathon; Ultra-marathon; Triathlon)
Country: Portugal

Former Prime Minister; former Minister of Planning of Mozambique; former President of the Advisory Board, BIM-Banco Internacional de Mozambique SA (Millennium BIM).
Country: Mozambique

Ambassador, Director General for Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Country: Turkey

Coordinator and Research Director at Crash / Médecins sans Frontières
Country:

Journalist, Director of the news programs, Member of the Board of Directors of the Television Academy in Spain
Country: Spain

Director of the United Nations Population Fund´s Geneva Office, Academic, former Secretary of State of National Defence of Portugal, former Member of the Portuguese Parliament.
Country: Portugal

Vice-President for MSF-USA Board of Directors, Associate Professor at the University of Mary Washington
Country:

Founder member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and its former leader; Member of the European Parliament where he leads the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Grouping.
Country: England

Professor of Lawbr/> Country: Portugal

World Bank´s Alternate Executive Director for Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Timor-Leste
Country: Portugal

Head of Cable Channels at SIC Television
<Country: Portugal

High Commissioner for Migrations
Country: Portugal

Legal Officer at the European Commission
Country: Portugal

Political scientist
Country: Portugal

Ambassador
Country:

British political economist and writer
Country: United Kingdom

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University Roma Tre, Rome
Country: Italy

Founder & Chief Mentor of POP (Protect our Planet) Movement; President, World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF); Former Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Country: India

Interim Dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business; Professor of Finance; Bolton Sullivan and Thomas A. Dean Chair of International Business
Country:

ormer High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue, Authorl
Country: Portugal

Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management
Country:

Chairman & CEO of Green World City, the Australian consortium
Country:

Federal Judge
Country: Brazil

Lawyer and social entrepreneur; Vice Governor of Entrepreneurship Advancement at the Small and Medium Enterprises Authority in Saudi Arabia
Country: Saudi Arabia

Geographer, Assistant Professor at the Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg in Austria
Country: Austria

PhD Fellow in Globalization Studies, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon
Country:Portugal

Country: Portugal

Humanitarian Diplomacy Coordinator at Netherlands Red Cross
Country: Zambia

President of the Luso-American Development Foundation, Portugal
Country: Portugal

Former Minister of State at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Current President of the European Investment Bank
Country: Wuppertal, Germany

Director-General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Country: North Carolina, USA

Professor and Lawyer
Country: Goiânia, Brazil

Senior Editor, Special Projects, Reuters Newspictures
Country: Athens, Greece