Invited guests

Al-Assad, Ribal

Founder and Director of the Organisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria and Chairman of the Iman Foundation. He campaigns internationally for democracy, freedom and human rights, and is a regular speaker on human rights platforms, as well as writing regularly on these issues. He is particularly involved in promoting interfaith dialogue and relations between Muslims, Jews and Christians around the globe. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the InterAmerican University, New York and an MA from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Participation

2014 2015
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal
Bio
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal

His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal served as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States of America from September 2005 until February 2007. His Royal Highness is involved in a number of cultural and social activities. He is one of the founders of the King Faisal Foundation and is the Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown, the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, and the King Faisal Foundation. He graduated from Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He subsequently pursued an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Participation

2008 2011 2013 2014
Abdulmajeed Al-Shatti
Bio
Al-Shatti, Abdulmajeed

Member of the Supreme Petroleum Council in Kuwait. An Independent Economics advisor in the field of Public policy, Energy, finance and economics of social media. He served as Economics Advisor to the UNDP, Kuwait. Former Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Commercial Bank of Kuwait. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Banking Association (2007-2010). He started his career at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) as a researcher and later as a manager of the economics department. He graduated from Syracuse University and continued post-graduate degrees at Stanford University.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015
Amrani, Youssef

Chargé de mission, Royal Cabinet, Morocco. He was appointed as Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation by His Majesty King Mohammed VI in 2013. He served as Ambassador to Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Belize. In 2008, he was appointed Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, a position he held until his election as Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, in July 2011. He holds a degree in economics from the University Mohammed V, Rabat and graduated from the Institute of Management, Boston.

Participation

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Antil, Alain

Director of the Ifri Sub-Saharan Africa Center. He works on Mauritania and security issues in the Sahel. He teaches at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Lille and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He holds a PhD in political geography from the University of Rouen.

Participation

2008 2012 2014 2016 2018 2021 2022
Aoun, Marie-Claire

Director of the Center for Energy at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and lecturer at Paris Dauphine University. She began her carreer in the energy sector in 2004 as a research fellow at the Center for Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials (CGEMP) at Paris Dauphine University. She served as Economist for the French energy regulator (Commission de Régulation de l’Energie) (2008-2014). She holds a PhD in Economics from Paris Dauphine University and is the author of several papers on energy.

Participation

2014 2015 2016
Nikoloz Apkhazava
Bio
Apkhazava, Nikoloz

Ambassador of Georgia to the Republic of Korea since February 2012. He has also been Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of Georgia in Japan (2008-2011), Ambassador-at-large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2008), Deputy Head of the Legal Unit at Hagler Bailly Consulting (1997), and Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Georgian International Oil Corporation (1996). He has studied in Georgia, Italy, and Japan, and holds a LLD from the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University.

Participation

2014
Aso, Yutaka

President of Aso Group. He started his career at the import-export company Osawa Shokai in 1973. He joined Aso Corporation in 1975 as Auditor and became Senior Managing Director in 1977, then President in 1979 and Representative Director in 2001. He has been Independent Director at Hoya Corporation since 2011. He also has been serving on the boards of Sumida Corporation, Toto Ltd. and Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co. Ltd. He graduated with a law degree from Keio University and from the New College, University of Oxford.

Participation

2014
David Avital
Bio
Avital, David

President of MTP Investment Group. Entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist who has realized great success in real estate, parking, biotech and other areas thanks to the strong values and principles acquired through his long military career. The tenets and cornerstones of his business philosophy are creativity, flexibility, persistence and an infallible moral code. He serves on the board of directors of several companies and is actively involved in charity and political organizations.

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2013 2014
Azzam, Samira Kristina

Associate Director, Government Relations – Growth Markets at Accenture. Previously, she handled U.S. federal and state government relations based in Washington, DC. She joined Accenture in 2007 from government relations firm Fabiani & Company, where she advocated on behalf of clients before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies. She holds a bachelor degree in international economics from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, United States.

Participation

2014
Ganbold Baasanjav
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Baasanjav, Ganbold

Ambassador of Mongolia to the Republic of Korea. Formerly, he  served as Director-General of the Asia and the Pacific Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Mongolia (2008-2013). He has also been Ambassador of Mongolia to Vietnam (2004-2008), State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia (2001-2003) and Director-General of the Public Affairs Department at the Ministry of External Relations of Mongolia (1998-2000). He has studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language, at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States.

Participation

2014
Thomas Bagger
Bagger, Thomas

Thomas Bagger has been Ambassador and Director-General for Foreign Affairs at the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany since March 2017. He holds an M.A. in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland at College Park and a doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. He studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1988/89. Before Dr. Bagger joined the German Diplomatic Service in 1992, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of International Affairs (SWP) in Ebenhausen / Germany. His postings abroad were Prague (1996-1998), Ankara (2002-2006), and Washington (2006-2009). Prior to his current assignment, Dr. Bagger served as Director of the Foreign minister’s private office (2009-2011) and as Head of Policy Planning (2011-2017) at the German Federal Foreign Office.

Participation

2014 2015
Bark, Taeho

President of the Global Commerce Institute of Lee&Ko, a leading global law firm in Korea, President of Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA), Professor Emeritus (former professor and Dean) of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Seoul National University and Chairman of the Korean Committee of the Trilateral Commission and the Co-Chair of Korea-Canada Forum. Professor Bark served as Non-Resident Senior Visiting Scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Harvard Kennedy School. He has participated in the Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition of the Trilateral Commission as an Asia-Pacific member. He served as Minister for Trade of the Korean government (from December 2011 until March 2013). In spring 2013, Dr. Bark was in the race for the Director-General position of the WTO as the Korean candidate. He also served as Chairman of the International Trade Commission of the Korean Government. He taught at Sciences Po, Stanford University and the University of Washington as a visiting professor. In addition, he was a visiting scholar at the IMF and consulted for the World Bank and the ADB. 

Participation

2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2021 2022 2023
Barré, Nicolas

Managing Editor of Les Echos. He served as Deputy Managing Editor at Le Figaro (2005-2008). He held the position of Tokyo Bureau Chief, Les Echos (1994-2000). He was correspondent for Les Echos in the United States. He is also a columnist at Europe 1 and Radio classique. He graduated from the Institut d’études politiques, Paris and the Centre de formation des journalists.

Participation

2013 2014 2015 2017
Belka, Marek

President, Narodowy Bank Polski and Professor of Economics. He specialises in applied economics and contemporary economic thought. He has served, among others, as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance (twice) and as Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. He has worked as Chairman of the Council for International Coordination for Iraq, as Director of Economic Policy in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and as Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Europe. Before he was appointed President of Narodowy Bank Polski in June 2010, he was Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015
Bensemhoun, Arié

Executive Director, ELNET, since 2011. He made his career in the private sector as a consultant in communications, PR and international relations, dealing with Middle-Eastern and strategic affairs. He plays a crucial role in the French-Israeli relationship through his commitment both at the community and political levels. He seeks to strengthen ties between political leaders from France and Israel who believe that close relations between Europe and Israel are vital to both parties.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
José Luis Bernal
Bio
Bernal, José Luis

Former Mexican Ambassador in Korea. H.E. Mr. José Luis Bernal served with the rank of Ambassador in the Czech Republic, in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He was Mexico’s Senior Official to the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) in 2001, Chief Economic Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001. In 1999, he was elected for a two-year term as Vice Chair of the OECD’s Committee on Territorial Development Policies. José Luis Bernal holds a Master’s Degree on Economics from CIDE, the Center for Teaching and Research on Economics in Mexico.

Participation

2014
Bertossi, Christophe

Director of the Centre for Migrations and Citizenship at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (UK) between 2001 and 2003, and a visiting fellow at the New York University (2009), the Institute for Advanced Studies-Collegium in Lyon (2010), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity (2015).  He gained his PhD in Political Sciences in 2000 at the Institute of Political Studies in Aix-en-Provence (France) and his Habilitation (HDR) at Sciences Po Paris in 2013. He is one of the editors of the book European States and their Muslim Citizens (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the author of La citoyenneté à la française (Editions du CNRS, 2016).

Participation

2008 2014 2016 2017
Biloa, Marie-Roger

Chief Executive Director of The Africa International Media Group and its branch MRB Productions. She is also Media Consultant and Adviser on African Affairs with Africa International, an umbrella entity including the “Club Millennium” and MRB-Networks.com, an issues- and solutions-oriented TV channel focussing on Africa’s development, in partnership with 10 major West-African TV. Born in Cameroon, educated in Cote d’Ivoire, France and Austria, Marie-Roger Biloa graduated from the universities of Abidjan, La Sorbonne in Paris and Vienna (German Studies, Political Science and History). Ms. Biloa is also an alumni of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, where her name is on the Hall of Fame, and of the Harvard Kennedy School of Governance. She is a frequent TV guest ( TV5Monde, France24, Aljazeera, RFI, i-Télé, ARD, ZDF) to comment current news and African politics.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023
François Bontemps
Bontemps, François

Former Ambassador of Belgium to the Republic of Korea. He previously held various positions such as Deputy General Director for Development Cooperation (2008-2012) and Deputy Representative to the Council of Europe (2004-2008). He graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Participation

2014
Othman Bouabid
Bio
Bouabid, Othman

Former Governor, Morocco. He was Director of Cabinet of the Interior Minister, Special Adviser at the Office of the Interior Minister and administrator at the central administration of the Interior Ministry. He studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and graduated from the School of Law in Rabat. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University Paris II.

Participation

2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Bréchot, Christian

President of the Global Virus Network, professor of medicine at USF. Christian Brechot, MD, PhD joined the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine as Senior Associate Dean for Research in Global Affairs, Associate VP for International Partnerships and Innovation, Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, and heads USF’s Initiative on Microbiomes.  He is also President of the Global Virus Network.  In addition to his past role as President of the Institut Pasteur, he has held senior positions at Institut-Meriux, Inserm (the French NIH) as well as Paris Descartes University.  Dr. Bréchot’s research activities have focused on viral hepatitis, microbiomes, and viral infections. 

Participation

2009 2013 2014 2015 2016 2021 2022
Carfantan, Jean-Yves

Senior Consultant, he runs AgroBrasConsult, a Brazilian consulting company specializes in agricultural markets and investments and based in São Paulo. He is a member of the Global Food Security Forum (GFSF) steering Committee. After being a Cooperating Professor at the University of Brazzaville (1975-1978), he became a Professor of International Economics at the Institut Superieur de Gestion (ISG), and Professor in Agricultural Economics at the Ecole Superieure d’Agriculture d’Angers (1985- 2010). Since 1994, he has been the correspondent in Brazil of the Cercle Cyclope, group set up and coordinated by Professor Philippe Chalmin. His latest book: Le défi chinois, les nouvelles strategies d’un géant (“The chinese challenge : new strategies of a giant”). He graduated in Economics and in Philosophy and holds a postgraduate degree in International Business.

Participation

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Mehmet Ceylan
Bio
Ceylan, Mehmet

Deputy Minister of Development of Turkey. He also served as AKP deputy in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2002 and 2007 and as mayor of Safranbolu from 1999 to 2002. Prior to that, he had been appointed  deputy specialist to the State Planning Organization (DPT). Between 1981 and 1985, he was lecturer at Zonguldak Karaelmas University and at Middle East Technical University (METU). He holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul, and an MA degree in economics from Western Illinois University, USA.

Participation

2014
Baroness Lynda Chalker of Wallasey

Founder and Chairman of Africa Matters Ltd. Between 1986 and 1997 she was Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. She is a Trustee of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF), she is also an Executive Trustee of the Global Leadership Foundation, a member of the international advisory board of Lafarge et Cie and advised the World Bank for over 8 years. She is Vice-President of WaterAid, Honorary Vice-President of the British Red Cross and Patron of a number of charities working in Africa.

Participation

2014
Chalmin, Philippe

Founder of Cercle Cyclope, Professor emeritus at Paris-Dauphine University, Consultant for various International Organisations (OECD, EEC, UNCTAD). He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Office of the French Prime Minister. He published around forty books including the latest Une brève histoire économique du XXème siècle, published in 2019. He has been the President of the French Observatory on formation of food products’ prices and margins since 2010. He graduated from HEC, he is “agrégé” in History and holds a Doctorate in Humanities.

Participation

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2022 2023
Chang Dae-whan
Bio
Chang, Dae-whan

Chairman & Publisher, Maekyung Media Group. He is Chairman of Maeil Business Newspaper and Maeil Broadcasting Network. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Korea (2002). He currently serves as Founder and Executive Chairman of World Knowledge Forum, Board Member of World Association of Newspapers and Member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. He graduated from the University of Rochester in Politics, from the George Washington University in International Affairs, from New York University in International Business Management and received a PhD from NYU.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2016 2018
Chang, Dal-joong

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He is currently an advisory committee member for policy affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  He was a Fulbright scholar and a two-time Japan Foundation Fellow. Before joining Seoul National University, he taught at the Korea Military Academy and Sogang Jesuit University. He earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley after having completed his BA and MA degrees at Seoul National University.

Participation

2014
Chi, Chang-hoon

Président et directeur des opérations de Korean Air, compagnie qu’il a rejointe en 1977. Auparavant, il a occupé les postes de vice-président exécutif et de vice-président au sein de la division Korean Air Cargo et du projet Navoï, de vice-président au siège régional en Chine, vice-président de la gestion et directeur général du bureau régional de San Francisco, et directeur général du bureau régional de Sydney. Il a reçu plusieurs récompenses, dont celles de l’Ordre du Mérite sportif (médaille Geosang). Il est titulaire d’une licence en théorie de l’éducation de l’université nationale de Séoul et d’un MBA de l’université d’Inha.

Participation

2014
Cho Jeong-hoon (Joseph)
Bio
Cho, Jeong-hoon (Joseph)

Total Group Representative in Korea (January 2015). He has been serving as President of Bowater Korea Ltd. & Vice President of Resolute Forest Products Inc. since 2006. Previously, he was Statutory Auditor of Samsung Total Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (2003-2006), President of Cray Valley Korea Co. Ltd (Affiliate of Total) (2001-2006) and Chief Representative of Total in Korea & Head of Total Korea Services (1996-2006). He holds a BA in Petroleum & Mining Engineering from Seoul National University and a MA in Energy Economics from Sydney University.

Participation

2014
Choi, Jung-wha

President, Corea Image Communication Institute and Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She is also a Member of International Conference Council, Seoul Metropolitan Government, an Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korean Culture and Information Service and an Advisor, Protocol Planning and Coordination, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Koreana, published by the Korea Foundation. She was an advisor to the National Unification Advisory Council (2011-2013). She holds a PhD in Interpretation and Translation Studies from ESIT, Paris III University and a BA from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Participation

2014
Choi, Hyung-Ho

PDG de BNP Paribas Securities Korea depuis 2009. Il a commencé sa carrière à la Banque de Corée en 1979. En 1990, il intègre Merrill Lynch Securities Singapore où il travaille deux ans avant d’être promu responsable Fixed Income et responsable Equity chez Merrill Lynch Securities Korea. Il est ensuite affecté en 1998 à Merrill Lynch Securities Hong Kong où il exerce la fonction de responsable Fixed Income pour l’Asie et le Pacifique. Il retourne en Corée après deux ans passés à Hong Kong. En 2003, il est nommé responsable pays de Merrill Lynch Securities Korea. Il est diplômé en économie de l’Université Yonsei.

Participation

2014
Mohammed Chraibi
Chraibi, Mohammed

Ambassador of Morocco to the Republic of Korea. Prior to that, H.E. Mr. Chraibi was Director of Direction of Financial Affairs, Chairman of the Group of 77 for the year 2003 at Nairobi, and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He was also Ambassador of His Majesty the King to the Republic of Kenya, to the Union of Comoros, to the Republic of Seychelles. He graduated from the National School of Public Administration, Diplomatic section, Rabat.

Participation

2014
Chun, Yungwoo

Chun Yungwoo is a Senior Advisor at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. He is also the Chairman and Founder of the Korean Peninsula Future Forum (KPFF). Previously, he served as the National Security Advisor to President Lee Myung-Bak, from 2010 to 2013. In his 33 years of service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, He served as Second Vice Foreign Minister (2009-2010), Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2008-2009) and Head of the ROK Delegation to the Six-Party Talks (2006-2008). He received a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Participation

2014
Chung, Mong-Joon

Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. He is also the Chairman of the Board of trustees of the Asan Foundation and the Honorary Chairman of Ulsan University. He served seven terms in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea. He is a former Chairman of the Grand National Party, and was a presidential candidate in 2002. He graduated from Seoul National University and the Sloan School of Management at MIT and he holds a PhD in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University.

Participation

2014
Colantuoni, Luigi

Chief Representative for Japan and President, Tokyo Branch, Total Trading International, S.A. He is also Vice-President  of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan. He started his career in Italy in the petroleum and chemical industry. He joined in 1986 the Electroplating Division of Schering. In 2006, based in the US, he was named President and CEO of Sartomer. He became in 2008 Associate Director in the Finance Department of the Chemical Branch of Total S.A. in Paris. He graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Napoli (Italy) and got a MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France).

Participation

2014 2015
Collomb, Bertrand

Honorary Chairman of Lafarge, who has merged with Holcim to form LafargeHolcim. He was a Director of LafargeHolcim until May 2018, and was also a director of several international companies, among which Unilever, Allianz, DuPont and Total. From  1966  to  1975,  he  worked  with  the  French  government  in  various positions.  He joined Lafarge in 1975. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of Lafarge in 1989. He was Chairman of Lafarge from 2003 to 2007. In parallel he was Chairman of Institut de l’Entreprise, of AFEP (Association of the large French companies) and of the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Member of  the Institut de France and Past Chairman of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He graduated from the Ecole polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He also holds a French law degree and a PhD in Management from the University of Texas.

Participation

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Cooper, Richard

Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University since 1981. Previously, he was Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-1997), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-1992), Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-1981), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-1966), U.S. Department of State. He received an A.B. from Oberlin College, a M.Sc (Econ) from London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Gábor Csaba
Bio
Csaba, Gábor

Ambassador of Hungary to the Republic of Korea since 2013. Previously, he served as Director-General for the Americas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2011-2013), Ambassador to Australia, also accredited to New Zealand (2007-2011), Deputy Director-General, Department for the Americas, MFA (2002-2007), Second Secretary (Political), Embassy of Hungary, Washington, D.C. (1997-2002), and Head of U.S. Desk, MFA (1995-1997). He holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Master of Science in Economics from Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

Participation

2014
Daniel Dăianu
Bio
Dăianu, Daniel

Chairman of the Fiscal Council and Advisor to the Governor (Euro Area Affairs), former Board Member of the National Bank of Romania. Professor of economics, The School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest and Member of the Romanian Academy. First Vice President of the Romanian Financial Supervision Authority during 2013-2014. He served as a member of the European Parliament (2007-2009) and he co-authored the EP report on the reform of the regulation and supervision of financial markets. Finance Minister of Romania (1997-1998), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banca Comerciala Romana (2005-2007), Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania (1992-1997) and Deputy Minister of Finance (1992).​ His last volume is entitled Emerging Europe and The Great Recession (UK, 2018). 

Participation

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
David, Dominique

Advisor to the Executive Chairman, Ifri, Editor of Politique étrangère and co-director of the annual report Ramses. He is also President of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe and of le Club des Vingt . Former Executive Vice-President of Ifri. Previously, he was in charge of the Security Studies department at Ifri. Before joining Ifri, he was Deputy Director of the Institut français de polémologie (French Institute of Polemology), and then Secretary General of the FEDN (Fondation pour les études de défense nationale). He also taught at the Military School of Saint-Cyr, at the Paris I University and at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP). His studies and publications deal with strategic issues, particularly with French strategy and European issues.

Participation

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023
Delapalme, Nathalie

Executive Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation since 2010, and co-Secretary-General of the Africa-Europe Foundation since 2020. She is a member of International Crisis Group (ICG), of the European Council of Foreign Affairs (ECFR), of the comité éditorial of the Revue Commentaire, and of the Conseil scientifique of IHEDN. She served as Inspecteur général des finances at the French Ministry of Economy and Finances between 2007 and 2010, after having been Africa advisor to the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2007, and advisor to the French Ministers of Development between 1995 and 1997, and between 2002 and 2004.  She began her career at the French Sénat, where she served at the Finances and Budget Commission from 1984 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2002, auditing a number of public expenditures, notably in the defense, foreign affairs, development, environment, research, education, telecoms and media sectors.

Participation

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2018 2021
Dierckx, Joris

Country Head for India at BNP Paribas SA since June 2015. Prior to taking up his current position, he served as Country Head of South Korea for BNP Paribas (2012-2015). In 2010, he had been appointed country head of Greece for BNP Paribas. From 2008 to 2010, he served as country head for Japan at Fortis and as interim Head of Merchant Banking Asia. He started his career in 1995 as Graduate Trainee at Generale Bank, in Belgium, before moving to Ireland to work at KBC Finance as Vice President in Project Finance in 1999. He holds a post-graduate degree in Finance from the University of Leuven, a master of law degree from the University of London and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Antwerp.

Participation

2014
Djelić, Božidar

Managing Director at Lazard Sovereign Group since 2014. Previously, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (2007-2011). From 2001 to 2004 he served as Minister of Finance and Economy of Serbia. Between 2005 and 2007, he served as Credit Agricole’s Director for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Prior to 2001, he was a Partner of McKinsey & Company in the Paris and Silicon Valley offices. He holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, a MPA from the J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a MA in Economics from the School of High Social Studies in Paris.

Participation

2014 2015
Dong, Manyuan

Vice President, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS). He is a senior research fellow specialized in Middle East studies and ethnic issues. He was First Secretary and Director of the Political Affairs Office of the Chinese Embassy in Turkey (1999-2002). He has been Director for Developing Countries Studies, Director for EU Studies, Director for International Strategic Studies at CIIS and Editor-in-chief of the CIIS Journal, International Studies. He graduated from the Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huanghe University and Peking University.

Participation

2014 2017 2019
Drouin, François

President of ETI FINANCE (SMEs and Midcaps financing), GAGEO (Asset based lending) and IFIMM (Real estate). Former chairman of the Board for the Autoroutes et Tunnel du Mont Blanc and of Société Française du Tunnel Routier du Fréjus,  former Vice President of the French Public Investment Bank (BPI). Former CEO of OSEO (the French Agency for Innovation and SMEs financing). Former Engineer at the Directorate of Navigation of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, Managing Director of the Caisse de Dépôts (French public financial institution) for the Normandie Region and later on for the Bourgogne region, Chairman of the Board for the Caisses d’Epargne (French savings banks) in the Midi-Pyrenees and for the Crédit Foncier de France (National mortgage bank of France). He holds a degree from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the ENPC (corps des Ponts).

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
El Aynaoui, Karim

Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Executive Vice-President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco as the Director of Economics, Statistics and International Relations. Prior to this, he served as an economist at the World Bank. He holds scientific and advisory positions in various institutions, including the Malabo-Montpellier Panel, the Moroccan Capital Market Authority, and the French Institute of International Relations. He is also advisor to the CEO and Chairman of the OCP Group, and serves as a board member of the OCP Foundation and as a global member of the Trilateral Commission. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bordeaux.

Participation

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Eom Seock-jeong
Bio
Eom, Seock-jeong

Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of Sweden. Previously, he served as Adviser for International Relations to Seoul Metropolitan Government (2008-2011), Ambassador to Hungary (2006-2008) and Dean of Education and Training, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, MOFAT (2004-2006). He also held the position of Deputy Director-General for Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) (2001-2004). He holds a BA in International Relations from Seoul National University and a MA in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Participation

2014
Fabian Călin
Bio
Fabian, Călin

Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Korea. Previously, he had served as Ambassador of Romania to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (2007-2012), Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office of Romania (2005-2007), and Vice-president of the Danube Commission (2002-2005).  He has also been Visiting Professor to the University for Political Sciences in Bucharest (2006-2007), Counselor and Head of the Department for Central and South-East European Affairs (DECSE) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Visiting professor to the University Babes-Bolyai, in Cluj (2001-2002). He holds a BS in geological sciences from that same university and a PhD.

Participation

2014
Foucher, Michel

Member of the Center for Higher European Studies (National Institute for Public Service, former ENA). He is, among other things, Senior Advisor to the Compagnie Jacques Coeur (since 2013). He was French Ambassador to Latvia (2002-2006), after having served as an Advisor to the French Foreign Minister (1997-2002), Special Envoy to the Balkans and the Caucasus (1999). He also served as Director of the policy planning staff of the French Foreign Ministry (1999-2002). From 2010 to 2013, he was Director of Studies and Research of the Institute of Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN).

Participation

2008 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023
Frieden, Jeffry A.

Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. He is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015) and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Jeffry Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second edition 2020), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.

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2009 2012 2013 2014 2017 2018 2019 2022
Gascón, Lorenzo

Lorenzo Gascón is Academician of the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences of Spain, of the Royal European Academy of Doctors and Academician and Vice-President Principal of the Academy of European Culture. He served as Dean of the Illustrious College of Economists of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and as a member of the International Council of the US Information Agency. He is Honorary President of the European League of Economic Cooperation and board Member of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe. He is also a WAAS Fellow. In addition he has been Chairman, President and CEO of several companies, including Tuneles y Autopistas de Barcelona S.A. and the Banco de Expansion Industrial. He holds a PhD and graduated from the Senior Management Program (PADE) of the IESE Business School. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Michoacan, Mexico and Lishui, China.

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Gates, Robert M.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, from December 2006 to July 2011 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Previously, he was President of Texas A&M University, the nation’s seventh largest university. He also served as Director of the CIA between 1991 and 1993 under George H.W. Bush. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional. He received a doctorate in 1974 in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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2014
Germay (de), Nicolas

Vice Chairman of the WPC. He manages the organisation of the annual conference since its first edition in 2008. He is also chairman and founder of Alandia, a restructuring advisory firm which helped various States or Sovereign funds to regain control over their industrial investments (Middle East, Africa and West Asia). Former Vice chairman of the Franco Indian chamber of commerce, he was more especially in charge of agricultural investments. He seats, or seated, at several Advisory Boards such as British Telecom or PWC. He published a book on globalization in June 2010: Mondialisation, un autre regard and one on restructuring issues in France (2015).

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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2022 2023
Gomart, Thomas

Dr. Thomas Gomart (PhD in History at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and EMBA at HEC) is Director of Ifri. He was its President for Strategic Development from 2010 to 2015 and the Director of its Russia/NIS Centre from 2004 to 2013. As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO – Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies (King’s College – London), he has acquired a diversified international experience. As Researcher, he is currently working on Russia, digital governance, country risk, and think tanks. He recently published Notre intérêt national. Quelle politique étrangère pour la France? (ed., with Thierry de Montbrial), Editions Odile Jacob, 2017; L’affolement du monde – 10 enjeux géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2019 (Prix Louis Marin and Prix du Livre de Géopolitique); Guerres Invisibles. Nos prochains défis géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2021. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). He is also a member of the editorial board of the French journals Politique étrangère, Etudes, and Revue des deux mondes.

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
Guérin, Gilles

Managing Director of Bordier & Cie in Geneva. Former Managing Partner of EFG Bank in Geneva, his area of expertise is private asset management. He is a member of the Board and Treasurer of the WPC Foundation. He previously worked as a money market dealer at the Al Saudi bank in Paris, then as Treasurer for Europe at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi in Paris. He received a degree in Economics from the University of Neuchâtel and an Advanced Management Degree from the École des cadres de Lausanne.

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2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Guigou, Elisabeth

Founding President of Europartenaires and former President of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. She was first appointed Administrator at the Ministry of Finance and later Secretary General of the Paris Club. In 1981, she served as Advisor to Jacques Delors, Minister of Finance, before becoming Chargé de mission to the President of the Republic from 1982 to 1990. Minister Delegate for European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, then member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, Elisabeth Guigou was Minister of Justice from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, she was appointed Minister of Employment and Solidarity. She was elected Deputy Seine-Saint-Denis between 2002 and 2017. Vice President of the French National Assembly from 2010 to 2011, she served as President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly from 2012 to 2017. She has written a number of publications over the years, including L’Europe. Les défis à venir de la première puissance mondiale (Le Cherche Midi, 2014) and Pour une Europe juste (Le Cherche Midi, 2011).

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Haass, Richard

President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since 2003. He is the author of twelve books on American foreign policy and one book on management. From January 2001 to June 2003, he held the position of Director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. From 1989 to 1993, he served as special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. He graduated from Oberlin College and Oxford University.

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2014
Hahm, Chaibong

President of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, Korea. Previously, he was a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California (2007-2010), Professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the Director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California (2005-2007), Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO (2003-2005), and Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (1992-2005). He received a BA in economics from Carleton College, a MA and a PhD in political science from the Johns Hopkins University.

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2014
Hampson, Fen Osler

Director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics program, Co-director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance and Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he served as director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is the recipient of various awards and honors and is a frequent contributor to the national and international media. He is the author of 10 books including The Global Power of Talk (co-authored with I. William Zartman). He serves on the International Advisory Board Committee of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy. He holds a PhD from Harvard University.

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2014
Han, Sung-Joo

Chairman of the International Policy Studies Institute of Korea. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Korea University. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994), UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus (1996-1997), a member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1999), Chairman of the East Asia Vision Group (2000-2001), Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States (2003-2005), and Acting President of Korea University (2002, 2006-2007). He graduated from Seoul National University and received a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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2012 2014
Hur, Kyung-wook

President of the Korean Bretton Woods Club, Chairman of the Board of the Korea Center for International Finance. He is also a Board member of Doosan Shareholding company. He served as Ambassador of Korea to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. He also held the position of Vice Minister for the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Secretary to the President for National Agenda, Senior Economist for the International Monetary Fund. He holds a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated from the Department of Business Administration at the Seoul National University.

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2011 2012 2014 2016 2019 2022
Hwang, Sun-Hye

18th president of Sookmyung Women’s University. She is also President of the Korean National Ballet and Vice President of Korean Association of Private University and Senior Researcher of Consortium for National English Ability Test. Since 1991, she has been a Professor of Department of English Language and Literature at Sookmyung. She was the founding Dean of the school of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Language) at Sookmyung. She was President of the Sociolinguistic Society of Korea (2002-2003) and the Applied Linguistic Association of Korea (2007-2008).

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2014
Hyun Hong-Choo
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Hyun, Hong-Choo

He served as Korea’s Ambassador to the United States (1991-1993) and as Korean Ambassador at the Permanent Observer Mission to the UN. He has been a member of Korea’s Special Committee for Constitutional Revision, Committee for Presidential Transition and Advisory Council of the Korean Constitutional Court. He is currently a member of the U.S.-Korea Business Council, Presidential Board of Advisors on National Unification and the Commission for National Security Posture Review. He graduated from Seoul National University and Columbia Law School in New York.

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2014
Ichim, Paul

Vice-president of EximBank since March 2009. He has held several positions such as Director of the Bucharest branch of Corporate Bucur Obor – ING Bank NV Amsterdam, Director of Financial Institutions – ING Bank NV Amsterdam, Bucharest branch. He served as State Secretary Counselor, Counselor of the Public Finance Minister and State Secretary, with the Ministry of Public Finance (2000-2005). He graduated from the Academy for Economic Studies in Bucharest.

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2014
Irbec, Yusuf Ziya

Former Member of the Turkish Parliament. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of The Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) and of the Parliamentary Network on the IMF & World Bank. He served also as a Deputy Convenor of the PGA Peace & Democracy, Law and Human Rights Programs. He is currently Advisory Board Member of the Iman Foundation (London) and Member of the Alumni Club of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He graduated from the University of Vienna and he holds a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences.

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2013 2014 2015 2016
Shigeo Iwatani
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Iwatani, Shigeo

Former Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS). His latest posts include Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria (2010-2013) and Kenya (2007-2010), and Consul-General of Japan in Honolulu (2005-2007). He has also been Director for Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office at the Cabinet Office (2002-2004), and Minister to the Embassy of Japan in China, in charge of cultural affairs (1996-1998). He graduated from Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Law.

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2014
Jansen, Sabine

Professor of International Relations at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris and Research Fellow at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherches en sciences de l’action, Sabine Jansen is Vice President of the Committee for Parliamentary and Political History and Delegated President of the Society for the History of the 5th Republic. She founded and was the Editor of Histoire@Politique from 2007 to 2014 at Sciences Po Paris. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Questions internationales, Secretary General of Revue historique and member of the Editorial Board of Parlements, four peer-reviewed journals. She is currently working on think tanks, decision-making and expertise in the field of international relations, with special attention to the history and role of the think tanks in diplomatic affairs. She graduated and received her Ph.D. in Modern History from Sciences Po. She holds the Agrégation in History.

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2021
Alejandro Jara
Bio
Jara, Alejandro

Senior counsel at King & Spalding LLP. He served as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization from 2005 to September 2013. During 2001, he served as Chairperson of the Committee on Trade and Environment of the WTO, and in February 2002, he was elected as Chairman of the Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services. In June 2000, he was appointed as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Chile to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He graduated from the University of Chile and pursued graduate studies in the University of California at Berkeley.

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2014
Jeremić, Vuk

President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, a global public policy think-tank based in Belgrade, Vuk Jeremić is also Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly magazine Horizons – Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development. He is also the leader of Serbia’s opposition People’s Party. In 2016, he participated in the official election for UN Secretary-General and finished in second place. In 2012, he was elected President of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly. During his term in office he played a leading role in steering the UN towards the establishment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He served as Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2012.

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2014 2015 2016 2018
Jindal Krishan
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Jindal, Krishan

Chief Executive Officer of NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS). He has been working at the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development for 30 years. He has published two books on microfinance and written on rural banking for several papers. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, in Ahmedabad, India, and a master’s degree in Agriculture and Rural Development from the University of Western Sydney, in Hawkesbury, Australia.

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2014 2015
Johnston, Donald J.

The Honourable Donald Johnston joined the law firm of Stikeman Elliott in 1961. In 1973, he was a founding partner of Johnston Heenan Blaikie. Elected to the House of Commons, he joined the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1978. From 1980 to 1984, Johnston successively held senior Cabinet positions and served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General. He then served as President of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 1994. In 1994, Johnston was elected Secretary-General of the OECD. He began his mandate in 1996 and was elected to a second term in 2001. In 2006, Johnston rejoined Heenan Blaikie as a member of the International Business Law Group. He  was Chair and is currently Chair Emeritus to the McCall MacBain Foundation. From 2006 until 2010, he was Chairman of the International Risk Governance Council. He was given the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and the Canadian Version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to Canada. He was also awarded prestigious decorations from Japan, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia, France and Canada. He attended McGill University receiving his BA and graduating as the Gold Medallist from the University’s Faculty of Law in 1958.

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2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018
Ju, Chul-Ki

President of the Overseas Koreans Foundation. Previously he was Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security to the President, Korea. Before that, he served as Vice President and Secretary-General of the Global Compact Korea Network and also taught at the Graduate School of International Studies of the Seoul National University as visitng professor. He retired from diplomatic service at the end of 2006 after a long career that culminated in his ambassadorship to France and to UNESCO. He also served as Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, to Morocco and Mauritania. He was Director-General of Economic Affairs at the Korean Foreign Ministry. He studied at Seoul National University and the Graduate School of Public Administration in France, and also received a master’s degree in international politics from the Free Brussels University in Belgium.

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2014 2016 2017
Jun, Kwang-woo

Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Economics (since May 2013). Between 2009 and 2013, Dr. Jun served as Chairman and CEO of the National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea. In 2008-2009, Dr. Jun served as founding Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC). From 2004 until 2008, he was Chairman of Deloitte Korea. He worked for the World Bank for more than 12 years in various capacities. He received his BA in economics from Seoul National University, and MBA and PhD in finance from Indiana University.

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2014
Karaganov, Sergei

Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the non-governmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Russian foreign and economic affairs specialist. He is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Founder and former Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe of the Academy of Sciences of USSR/Russia (1989-2010). He has been Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) since 2006. He was a Member of High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) (2014-2015). He graduated from the Department of Economics of the Moscow State University.

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2008 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2019
Kazazovic, Zoran

Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Korea. Previously, he had worked at the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first as Head of the Department for Regional Initiatives (2011-2012), then as Head of the Department for Europe (2012-2013).  He has also been Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, to the Republic of Singapore, to the Kingdom of Cambodia, to the Republic of the Philippines and to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.

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2014
Kim, Chulsu

Senior advisor at Lee International IP & Law Group in Seoul and Chairman of Institute for Trade and Investment (ITI), a research and consulting organization affiliated with Lee International, a law firm based in Seoul. He previously taught trade policy at Sejong University and served as its President (2002-2005). From 1995 to 1999, he served as Deputy Director-General of the WTO. He was the Korean Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy (1993-1994). He was appointed Korea’s Ambassador for International Trade in 1994. He graduated from Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts where he earned master’s and doctorate degrees in Political Science.

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2014
Jaebum Kim
Bio
Kim, Jaebum

Secretary General of the Korean–American Association since July 2013. H.E. Mr. Jaebum Kim also serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Global Development Consulting Center. He has been a policy commissioner of the Korean Council on Foreign Relations since March 2007. Since March 2011, he has also been a board member and associate director of the International Policy Studies Institute (IPSI) in Seoul and the editor of its English-language journal Korea Review. He served as Korea’s Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay between 2002 and 2005.

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2014
Kiviniemi, Mari

Mari Kiviniemi has been Managing Director of the Finnish Commerce Federation since 2019. She served as OECD Deputy Secretary General from 2014 to 2018. 41st Prime Minister of Finland from 2010 to 2011, she previously held various positions in the Finnish government, including Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development and Minister for European Affairs. She was a Member of Parliament from 1995 to 2014, chairing and participating in a vast number of committees. Deputy Party Leader of the Finnish Centre Party from 2003 to 2008, she was elected Leader of the Party in 2010. She sits on the board of directors of Blic Public affairs and the supervisory board of Messukeskus Helsinki. She has been a member of many other boards including the Helsinki City Council, the Finnish National Opera Foundation and Lännen Tehtaat Oyj. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki.

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2014 2015 2016 2017 2021
Koffi, Hervé

Country Manager for Côte d’Ivoire, General Electric, since 2014. Prior to joining General Electric, he worked 12 years for Citi where he held various positions, including CFO for West and Central Africa based in Côte d’Ivoire. From 2012 to 2013, he was Acting General Manager for Citi’s operations in Côte d’Ivoire. He also served as board member and vice president of Citibank Cote d’Ivoire S.A. He has also been a lecturer at the National school of statistics and applied Economics (E.N.S.E.A.) in Côte d’Ivoire for the past 10 Years. He graduated from the National school of statistics and applied Economics (E.N.S.E.A.) in Côte d’Ivoire, and he holds a MBA TRIUM, an alliance of New York Stern University, London School of Economics, and H.E.C. Paris.

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2014 2015
Sylvestre Kouassi Bile
Kouassi Bile, Sylvestre

Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire to the Republic of Korea since 2012. Prior to that, H.E. Mr. Kouassi Bile served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Côté d’Ivoire as Ambassador of the Director of the Africa Department, Deputy Director in Charge of Inter-African Cooperation Organizations and Deputy Director of West Africa. He started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977. He graduated in politics and social sciences at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and in Diplomacy at the National School of Administration of Abidjan.

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2014
Kowal, Pawel

Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a political scientist, historian, columnist, expert on Eastern policy, Co-Founder of the Warsaw Rising Museum, lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Research Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Member of the Lower House of the Polish Parliament – Sejm, where he serves as Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007), and was a member of the National Security Council. From 2009 to 2014, he was a member of the European Parliament, working in the Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence Committees, and Chairman of the EU delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the New Eastern Europe bi-monthly magazine and the Supervisory Board of Alwernia SA. He authored numerous publications on transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe.

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Tomasz Kozlowski
Kozlowski, Tomasz

Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Korea (since January 2011). Since 2004, he has been working for the European Union Institutions in Brussels as Head for Asia at the Office of the EU High Representative Javier Solana and later as Principal Adviser for Asia at the European Commission. He was the Ambassador of Poland to Pakistan (concurrently accredited to Afghanistan) in 2001 – 2003, and the Asia Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw in 2003 – 2004.

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2014
Kumar, Suresh

Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Delhi. He has shouldered the responsibilities of Head of the Department from 2009 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2019. He is the Chief Editor of the Africaindia.org. Professor Kumar has accomplished international projects with NIHSS South Africa, UNESCO Research Group in Brazil, SADC Hashim Mbita Project, Tanzania and nine national projects. He articulated his opinion on different aspects of Africa before the International Geography Union (2004 & 2008), India-Africa Forum Summit (2005, 2011 & 2019), Ronald H. Brown Institute (2008), United Nations Organisation (2012), World Policy Conference (2014, 2016 & 2022), European Commission of African Studies (2014), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (2015), IBSA, BRICKS-IKS (2016, 2018 & 2019) and many others. About 164 articles have been published in different books, journals, and newspapers. He has actively contributed his opinion on India and Africa in the different international media channels of BBC, Aljazeera, ABC, Yomiuri Shinbun and All India Radio.

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2014 2016 2022
Lablanchy, Jean-Pierre

Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist, member of the Supervisory Board of Edeis as well as member of Surveillance Board of Edeis.com and active member of Bealy.io. He is specialized in the management of conflict situations, and in particular in the management of post-traumatic syndromes. He participates in work on sleep, biological rhythms, and physiological and psychological adaptation factors. He has been practicing in Paris for 37 years, with an involvement in corporate work. He has carried out numerous consulting missions including with Progress, Danone, Rians, Laboratoires Debat, Spie Batignolles, L’Oréal, EDF, Normédic, La Poste, and with the government of Senegal. He also collaborated with IMS Health and the General Management of Manpower.

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022
Mohamed Laichoubi
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Laichoubi, Mohamed

Ambassador of Algeria. Former Minister of Labor and Social Protection and Minister of Youths and Sports of Algeria. He also served as Prefect, Deputy, President of the Finance and Budget Commission at the National Assembly, member of the Commission of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Emigration. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Spain for Economic and Finance Sciences and of the Forum “Penser l’Europe”. Honorary member of the Barcelona Economics Network. Member of the Scientific Committee of the MS’10 Barcelona International Conference. He is Researcher, Lecturer and Teacher at the Higher School for Political Sciences at the Institute of Diplomacy and at the International Relations and the École nationale d’administration (ENA). He was a Board member of the High Institute of Management and Planning, National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as the National Office of Statistics. He was also member of the mediator’s team for the resolution of the Northern Mali and Northern Niger Conflict, and Co-Editor of the agreements. He graduated from the University of Law and Economic Sciences.

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2022
Lamy, Pascal

Honorary President of Notre Europe-Jacques Delors Institute. Former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) (2005-2013). He began his career in the French civil service at the Inspection générale des finances and at the Treasury. He was Chief of staff for the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, and his representative as Sherpa in the G7 (1985-1994). He served as CEO of the bank Credit Lyonnais until its privatization in 1999. He served as Commissioner for Trade at the European Commission (1999-2004). He holds degrees from the Paris based École des hautes études commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) and from the École nationale d’administration (ENA).

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2008 2012 2013 2014
Lee, Seung-Hoon

Chairman of Lee International IP & Law Group and of Infinite Ldt. since 1985. He is also Director of the Digital Times since 2011 and Director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Korea since 2007. He serves as Honorary Advisory Counsel to the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 2006. He is a non-executive Director, PoongSan Corporation and Director of the Security Management Institute. He graduated from Georgetown University, Columbia University and Seoul National University.

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2009 2014
Lee, In-ho

Chairman of the Korean Broadcasting System. She served as Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Finland and Russia. She was also Chairman of the Asan Institute of Policy Studies and President of the Korea Foundation. She was a Professor at Korea University and Seoul National University before she was appointed the first woman Ambassador of Korea. For ten years, she served as a Board Member of the Korean Association of University Women. She received her master’s degree from Radcliffe University and earned her doctorate in history from Harvard University.

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2014
Lee, Wonjae

Directeur et associé du YOZMA Group (YOZMA Fund) en Corée. Il est également vice-président de la Chambre de commerce israélo-coréenne et directeur de l’Israel-Korea Business Council. Il est conseiller en commercialisation technique au ministère de la Science, des TIC et de la Planification, conseiller en commercialisation des découvertes à l’Institut de sciences fondamentales et professeur invité à l’université féminine de Sookmyung. Il a exercé la fonction de consultant économique à la Chambre de commerce israélo-coréenne et de secrétaire auprès du 12e Premier ministre d’Israël. Il est l’auteur du livre Creative Economy, Lessons from Israel (2013). Il possède une licence en économie et en statistiques de l’université hébraïque de Jérusalem.

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2014
Lee, Hong-Koo

Chairman of the board of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs. From 1994 to 1995, he served as Prime Minister of South Korea. Prior to that, he served twice as the Deputy Prime Minister for unification working to improve relations between the two divided Korean states. He served as ambassador to the United States (1998-2000), and the United Kingdom (1991-1993). Before entering public service, he had been on the faculty of Seoul National University for 20 years, and now a professor emeritus. He studied at Seoul National and Emory Universities and received a PhD in political science from Yale University.

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2014
Lee, Seungcheol

Vice Chairman & CEO, Federation of Korean Industries (FKI). He also serves as President of the FKI International Management Institute (IMI) and the FKI Center for Large and Small Business Cooperation (FKI LSC). He is the Chairman of the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI). He is also a Board Member of several associations, like the Korea Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities, the Korea Medical Assistance Foundation and the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency. He holds an MA in Economics, Ohio State University, U.S.A., and a PhD in Economics, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

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2014
Lee, Seung-Hoon

Professor of economic development at Seoul National University and Tübingen University. Formerly, he taught the same course at the Moscow Higher School of Economics. He has also taught economics at Seoul National University since 1977, as assistant, associate, and full professor until 2010, and is now a professor emeritus of the same university. He served as Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Seoul National University, first Chairman of the Korean Electricity Commission and Co-Chairman of the Green Growth Committee of the Korean government. He holds a BE degree in electronics from Seoul National University and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University. He also studied energy economics and economic development.

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2014
Levitte, Jean-David

Member of the Institut de France and President of the Geneva Center for Security Policy Fondation Council (GCSP), Jean-David Levitte has had a distinguished and outstanding career in the French Foreign Service. Ambassador Levitte was the Senior Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa of President Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012. Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007, he was previously Ambassador to the United Nations between 2000 and 2002. He served as Senior Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa of President Chirac from 1995 to 2000. From 1990, he held senior positions in the French Foreign Ministry, first as Assistant Secretary for Asia and then as Undersecretary for Cultural and Scientific Cooperation. In 1988, he served as the French Ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva. When he joined the Foreign Service in 1970, he was first posted in Hong Kong and Beijing. A few months after his election in 1974, President Valery Giscard d’Estaing asked him to work on his staff at the Elysee Palace, where he stayed from 1975 to 1981. Ambassador Levitte earned a law degree and is a graduate of Sciences-Po and of the National School of Oriental Languages, where he studied Chinese and Indonesian.

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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Lévy-Lang, André

Founder and President of the Louis Bachelier Institute. Member of the Board of Ifri, affiliate Emeritus Professor in Finance at Paris-Dauphine University, Non-Executive Chairman of Les Échos, Chairman and Founder of the Fondation du Risque and Institut Louis Bachelier. He held various positions in the Schlumberger Group and he was CEO of Banque Paribas until the merger creating BNPParibas. He started as a Research Physicist at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He graduated from the École Polytechnique and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023
Liautaud, Susan

Founder and Managing Director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, a firm advising on complex ethics matters for leaders in the corporate, non-profit and governmental sectors internationally. She is Chair of Council (trustees) of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Vice Chair of the Global Partnership for Education and Chair of the Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs Advisory Council. She teaches cutting-edge ethics courses at Stanford University and is the author of The Power of Ethics and of The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions. She also founded a non-profit platform for innovative ethics called The Ethics Incubator. She serves to the Stanford HAI and to SAP’s AI Ethics Advisory Panel. She also serves on a number of other boards and advisory boards, including: Benevolent AI; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Yale Divinity School Advisory Council; the French Ambassador’s Foreign Trade Advisory Council in the UK; the American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières US Advisory Board (former Chair). She is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. Susan holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a JD from Columbia University Law School.

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019
Liechtenstein (Prince of), Michael

Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG, as well as President of the Think Tank ECAEF (European Centre of Austrian Economics Foundation). He is Chairman of Industrie- und Finanzkontor in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. From 1978 to 1987 he worked for Nestlé SA in the fields of controlling, financial management and marketing in various markets in Europe and Africa. H.S.H. Prince Michael of Liechtenstein completed his studies at the Economic University of Vienna, with a Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften (M.A. in Business Administration). During his studies he took various practical training periods and worked with banks and manufacturing companies in Canada, the United States and Belgium.

Participation

2014 2015 2022
Lim, Hyoung-Joon

Head of the World Food Programme (WFP) Korea office since November 2011. He joined the WFP in 2002 as a Junior Professional Officer in several countries before moving to WFP headquarters in Rome, Italy, where he served as a donor relations officer in charge of Asia. He contributed to newspapers, including a weekly column to Hankyoreh, one of the major Korean dailies, from 1997 to 1998, and a monthly column to Hanwoolan in the mid 2000s. He holds a BA in language and diplomatic science, an MA in political science from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and an MPA from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Participation

2014
Liu Chen
Bio
Liu, Chen

Professor of Social Sciences, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). Her research interests include international relations, international political economy and international communication. Her latest book Imaging China and China’s Image around the World from 1978 Deng Xiaoping’s Reform and Opening up to 2013 Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream: An International Communication Perspective won the grant from the National Social Science Foundation of China. She is also the Executive Director of China Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (CAFICS) and adviser to China Central Television (CCTV).

Participation

2014
Manu Mallikarjun
Mallikarjun, Manu

Social entrepreneur working in the fields of International Relations and Development. His current projects include a film series, the goal of which is to find potential paths to a peaceful and sustainable world, for which as filmmaker he has documented his interactions with economists, activists, politicians, diplomats, academics, and spiritual leaders. The first film titled Birth of a Poet was an official selection at the Global Nonviolent Film Festival, 2019. Furthermore, he is writing a book for the same purpose. He has worked in the private sector in the fields of Real Estate, Information & Communication Technology, Finance, and Outsourcing. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, a Master in Creative Writing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, and is currently pursuing the part-time Master in Real Estate Development at IE University. He is fluent in English, Hindi, Spanish and Telugu.

Participation

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Manley, John

President and CEO of the Business Council of Canada (formerly CCCE). He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. From 1993 to 2003 he was a Minister in the governments of Jean Chrétien, serving in the portfolios of Industry, Foreign Affairs, and Finance, in addition to being Deputy Prime Minister. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was named Chair of a Cabinet Committee on Public Security and Anti-terrorism. In addition to his role as President and Chief Executive Officer of the CCCE, he serves on the boards of several publicly traded companies and is active in the not-for-profit sector.

Participation

2014
Mariani, Thierry

French Member of Parliament for the 11th constituency for French Citizens Abroad (Asia, Russia, and Oceania) from 2012 to 2017. He is also member of the Foreign Commission, member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and Co-President of the French-Russian Dialogue. He served as Secretary of State for Transport and then Minister for Transport (2010-2012). In 2009, he was appointed Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan by President Nicolas Sarkozy. He graduated from the Institut d’études des relations internationales, Paris.

Participation

2014
Vasyl Marmazov
Bio
Marmazov, Vasyl

Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Korea. Previously, he had been Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg, and a Partner of the Ukraine-based law firm Yuris Law Offices. He has also served as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. He holds a PhD in Law from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He also studied at the London School of Economics (UK), Sidney Sussex College (Cambridge, UK), International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and Stanford University (USA).

Participation

2014
Masuda, Tatsuo

Visiting professor at the Graduate School of Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (NUCB) on energy-climate nexus. He also serves as auditor of SOC Corporation in Tokyo, chairman of FairCourt Capital in London and strategic committee member of Elion House in Singapore. He has had an extensive career in energy business and policy making as JAPEX advisor, JNOC vice president and director of the International Energy Agency. He has a strong interest in new dimension of energy and environmental policies and measures. He belongs to the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum.

Participation

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Meksem, Khalid

Professor of Genomics, Genetics and Plant biotechnology, Southern Illinois University. Former Managing Director, University Polytechnique Mohammed VI. He serves as an editor and ad hoc reviewer for a number of international scientific journals as well as for national, federal and international granting agencies. In 2000, he joined the Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems at SIU as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2009. Genetic diversity and crops improvement via mutation breeding and generation of alternative alleles is a major area of his research. He graduated from the University of Casablanca, the University of Fes, the University of Paris XI and he holds a PhD from the University of Cologne and the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany.

Participation

2014
Messerlin, Patrick

Professor Emeritus at Sciences Po Paris. Special Adviser to Mike Moore (WTO Director general) (2001-2002), he co-chaired the Task Forces on Trade for the Millennium Development Goals (2002-2005) and on Global Finance and Trade Architecture (2007-2010). He was a member of the Global Trade Agenda Council, World Economic Forum (2009-2012).

Participation

2014
Miyake, Kunihiko

Research Director, The Canon Institute for Global Studies, since 2009. He is also a Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University since 2006 and President of the AOI Foreign Policy Institute since 2005. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1978. In 2004, he served as Deputy Director-General of Middle East Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs after having served as Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Iraq and Japan’s Representative to the CPA. In 2000 he was Minister at the Embassy of Japan in China. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo.

Participation

2014
Dominique Moïsi
Moïsi, Dominique

Founding member of the French Institute of International Relations along with Thierry de Montbrial, Dominique Moïsi has been the assistant to Raymond Aron at the Foundation Maison des sciences de l’Homme in Paris. He is Visiting Research Professor at London King’s College. He has been Special Advisor at Institut Montaigne since 2016. He authored numerous books such as The Geopolitics of Emotions, translated into more than twenty languages and for which he received the international Spinoza Prize in 2018. He is a columnist for Les Echos newspaper, Radio Classique and Ouest-France. He frequently contributes to The Financial Times and The New York Times.

Participation

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Montbrial (de), Thierry

Thierry de Montbrial is Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference. He has been a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France since 1992, and is a member of a number of foreign academies. He serves on the Board or Advisory Board of a number of international institutions. Thierry de Montbrial chaired the Department of Economics at the École polytechnique from 1974 to 1992. He was the first Chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research (1993-2001). Entrusted with the creation of the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’analyse et de prévision) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was its first Director (1973-1979). He has authored more than twenty books, several of them translated in various languages, including Action and Reaction in the World System – The Dynamics of Economic and Political Power (UBC Press, Vancouver, Toronto, 2013) and Living in Troubled Times, A New Political Era (World Scientific, 2018). He is a Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur, Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. He has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun – Gold and Silver Star, Japan (2009), Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2016) and other state honors by the French and several foreign governments. Thierry de Montbrial is a graduate of the École polytechnique and the École des mines, and received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Participation

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Moon, Chung-in

Professor of political science at Yonsei University and Editor-in-Chief of Global Asia. He is currently serving as a member of Presidential Committee on Unification Preparation. He was Dean of Yonsei’s Graduate School of International Studies. He was also Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative and Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea. His recent publications include What Does Japan Think? (2013), The Sunshine Policy-In Defense of Engagement as a Path to Peace in Korea (2012).

Participation

2014
Moon, Si Yeun

Dean of the Korean Cultural Institute affiliated with Sookmyung University since 2012. Professor of Department of French language and Culture since 1997. Director of Master, Culture Management in Graduate School of International Relations. She is the author of several books and 20 articles, 8 on cultural policy and 12 on theatrical studies and others. Since 2009, she co-organized many forums like the 1st France-Korea Cultural policy Forum with Ministry of Culture, the 1st Korea-Africa Forum on Art and Culture with Ministry of Culture and the 10th and 11th Forum France-Korea with IFRI and KF. She graduated from University of Paris III (PhD in Theatrical Studies).

Participation

2014
Moratinos, Miguel Ángel

High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain (2004-2010), he also served as Director of the Institute of Cooperation with the Arab World (1991-1993) and was appointed Director General of Foreign Policy for Africa and the Middle East (1993-1996). He held the position of Spain’s Ambassador in Israel (1996). He was the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process (1996-2003). From 2010 to 2011 he joined parliamentary activities and ran to be elected Director-General of the FAO. In January 2012, he joined the team of the Global Dry Land Alliance in Qatar promoting this international treaty for food security. From 2012 to 2013 he was member of the High-level Advisory panel of the president of the 67th UN General Assembly. Prior to his appointment as High-Representative, Mr. Moratinos was the Honorary Chairman of the CIRSD Board of Advisers (Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development), Senior Advisor of Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Honorary President of REDS, the SDSN Spanish network.

Participation

2010 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Morel, Pierre

Director of the Pharos Observatory of cultural and religious pluralism and Coordinator of the political group of the OSCE Minsk Process on Ukraine. Former EU Special Representative for Central Asia and for the crisis in Georgia. He began his diplomatic career in 1971. He served at the French Embassy in Moscow. He also served as Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the French Republic. He was Ambassador to the Russian Federation (1992-1996) and was also accredited, while in residence in Moscow, to Georgia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, and to Kyrgyzstan. He served as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and then to the Holy See. He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques in Paris, of the Paris Assas Faculty of Law and of the École nationale d’administration.

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2018 2019
Hugh M. Morgan
Bio
Morgan, Hugh M.

Principal of First Charnock Pty Ltd, Australia. He joined North Broken Hill in 1965, becoming a Director, Marketing and Finance (1971-1976). Hugh is currently Chairman of The Order of Australia Association Foundation Limited, Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre, President of the National Gallery of Victoria Foundation, Member of the RAND Australia Advisory Council and Chairman of True Gold Consortium Pty Ltd. Previously he was a Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1981-1984 and 1996-2007), Director of the Australian Stock Exchange (1982-1989), Chief Executive Officer of Western Mining Corporation (1990-2003), Member of Foreign Affairs Council, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2002-2008), President of the Business Council of Australia (2003-2005) and Member of the LafargeHolcim International Advisory Board (2001-2017).

Participation

2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2018
Igor V. Morgulov
Bio
Morgulov, Igor V.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation since 2011, in charge of the relations with Asian countries. Between 2009 and 2011, he was Head of the First Asia Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, from 2006 to 2009, counselor at the embassy of the Russian Federation in Beijing. He has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1991. In 1983, he graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Participation

2014
Mohammed Tawfik Mouline
Mouline, Mohammed Tawfik

Director General of the Royal Institute for Strategic Studies since 2007 (Rabat, Morocco). He is the Honorary President of the Moroccan Association of Regional Science, and a member of various scientific committees. In 1979, he joined the Prime Minister Department. He held various positions within the ONA Group. He was Director of Studies and Financial Forecasts at the Ministry of Economy and Finances (Morocco) (1995-2003). In 2003, he was appointed at the Royal Cabinet, as in Charge of Mission. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines, Paris.

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2017 2018
Mohamed Ali Nafti
Bio
Nafti, Mohamed Ali

Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia in Seoul. He has held several functions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia, including Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Arab and Asian countries, Counselor of Foreign Affairs and Assistant Director. He has also worked at the Tunisian Embassy of Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, of Athens, in Greece, and of Madrid, in Spain, respectively as First Secretary, as Minister-Counselor and as Chargé d’affaires. He holds a master of combined languages (Arabic, French, English, Spanish).

Participation

2014
Nicolas, Françoise

Director of the Center for Asian Studies, Ifri. She has been an assistant Professor in international economics at the University of Paris-Est since 1993. She also teaches at Langues’ O, Sciences Po (Paris) and Sciences Po (Lyon). In the past she taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS, Geneva), at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, as well as at the HEC School of Management. She also worked as a consultant to the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD (1997-1999 and 2010-2011).

Participation

2008 2014
Noland, Marcus

Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has been associated with the Institute since 1985. He is concurrently a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He was previously a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He has held research or teaching positions at several universities, including Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California and Tokyo University. He graduated from Swarthmore College and he holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea (2017) was co-authored with Stephan Haggard.

Participation

2014 2017 2018 2019 2021 2023
François Nordmann
Bio
Nordmann, François

Chairman of FN Conseil. Former Ambassador of Switzerland to France (2002-2007). He joined the Foreign Service in 1971. He held several positions such as Ambassador to Guatemala and to other States of Central America, Head of the Swiss Delegation to UNESCO, Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the international organizations in Geneva. He contributes regularly to the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. He studied law and international relations at the University of Fribourg and the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva.

Participation

2013 2014 2015 2017 2018
Noue, Bertrand (de la)

General Representative of Total in China and Chairman of Total (China) Investment since 2011. He started his career in Africa before joining Total’s Downstream sector in 1985 in the United Kingdom. In 1990, he was appointed Crude Oil Manager in Tokyo. He joined the Total’s Investor Relations team in 1993. He became Chief Financial Officer of Total France in 1999. In 2004, he was appointed President and CEO of Total Holdings USA, based in Houston, and, in 2009, Vice-President Investor Relations of Total. He graduated from the French Business School HEC Paris and the Executive Training Program (ETP) of the European Union in Japan.

Participation

2014
Nye, Joseph

Professor at the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He also served as Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. He chaired the National Intelligence Council. He is also the author of numerous books. In 1994 and 1995, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. His most famous books are: The future of Power (2011) and Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004). He graduated from Princeton University and Oxford University and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard University.

Participation

2014
Oiknine, Dan

Chairman, Chamber of Commerce and Industry France India, since 2009. He founded the India Trade Centre in 2007. He worked in the high-tech and internet industry, holding managing positions for technology leaders such as Netapp and Enition. He started in the luxury goods industry, heading several demanding positions, from Marketing to Business development, within famous brands (Dior, Celine, Lagerfeld, etc.) which he helped develop on the American continent. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sorbonne University and a Master’s Degree in Science and Techniques from Dauphine University, Paris.

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Arslan Hakan Okçal
Bio
Okçal, Arslan Hakan

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to the Republic of Korea. He has also been Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (2008-2010) and to the Republic of Nigeria. He has held several positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he joined in 1978, including Director General for the Balkans and Central Europe (2010-2013), Deputy Director General for Research (2001-2004), and Head of North America Department (1995-1997). He holds a BA in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University and has studied at NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy.

Participation

2014
Gonzalo Ortiz
Bio
Ortiz, Gonzalo

Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Korea. Previously, he had been Consul General of Spain in Shanghai (2011-2014), Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Spain in India (2006-2009), Ambassador of Spain in Vietnam (2003-2006), Consul General of Spain in Sydney and Auckland (1996-1999), and Consul General of Spain in Rio de Janeiro (1990-1993). He holds a bachelor in law and economics.

Participation

2014
Shotaro Oshima
Bio
Oshima, Shotaro

Chairman of the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. Formerly, he held several positions at the World Trade Organization including member of the Appellate Body (2008-2012), Japan’s Permanent Representative (2002-2005), Chairman of the General Council (2004-2005) and Chairman of the Dispute Settlement Body (2003-2004). He served as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (2005-2007) and to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2000-2001). He holds a degree in law from the University of Tokyo.

Participation

2013 2014 2015
Panov, Alexander

Member of the Advisory Board of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. He is also a Professor and Head of the department of diplomacy of MGIMO since 2014 and Chief Editor of the magazine “The USA and Canada – economy, policy, culture”, published by the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies, in Moscow. He served as Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2010). He was also Ambassador of Russia to Norway (2004-2006), Japan (1996-2003) and the Republic of Korea (1992-1993). From 1994 to 1996, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. He was a Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (1971-1977). He holds a PhD in Political Sciences.

Participation

2014 2017
Park, In-kook

President of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies. He served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations (2008-2011), Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Ambassador to Kuwait (2003-2005). He also served as Secretary to the President of the Republic of Korea for International Security (2002-2003). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and a Master’s Degree from the Graduate School of Law at Seoul National University.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Park Geun-hye
Bio
Park, Geun-hye

President of the Republic of Korea (2013-2017). She was sworn in as South Korea’s first female president in 2013. Previously, she was a Lawmaker in the 18th National Assembly and Member of the Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Committee (2008-2012). She served among others as Chairperson of the Grand National Party (GNP) (2004-2006). In 1998, she began serving as a member of the National Assembly. She would be re-elected four times thereafter, serving in five consecutive national assemblies. She holds a BS in Electronic Engineering from Sogang University, Seoul, as well as several Honorary Doctorates in Literature, Science, and Politics.

Participation

2014
Jérôme Pasquier
Bio
Pasquier, Jérôme

Ambassador of France to South Korea. He held various prominent positions such as Ambassador of France to Croatia (2009-2012) and Deputy General Manager for International Cooperation and Development (2004-2009). From 1998 to 2002, he also served as Consul General of France to Hong Kong and from 1988 to 1992, he was Cultural Advisor to Seoul. He graduated from the École polytechnique and from the École nationale d’administration.

Participation

2014
Carlos Pérez-Verdía
Bio
Perez-Verdía, Carlos

Chief of Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico since 2013. Previously, he served as Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2010-2012), Manager, domestic operations,  Banco de México (2004-2009) and Manager, analysis of central bank operations, Banco de México (2001-2004). He taught economy courses and held research positions at the University of Chicago (1994-2000). He graduated from the Universidad Iberamericana and he holds a PhD from the University of Chicago.

Participation

2013 2014
Pisani-Ferry, Jean

Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair at the European University Institute. He is also Professor at Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) and at Sciences Po Paris. Previously, he served as French Commissioner General for Policy Planning (2013-2016), Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank (2005-2013), Deputy Chairman of the French Economic Analysis Council (2001-2002), Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance (1997-2000), Director of CEPII, the French institute for international economics (1992-1997). He is an engineer from the École supérieure d’électricité, Paris. He also holds a Master’s degree in mathematics and an advanced degree in economics from the Centre d’études des programmes économiques (CEPE, Paris). In the first half of 2017, he contributed to the campaign of Emmanuel Macron as Director of the Program and Ideas Division.

Participation

2008 2013 2014 2018
Popescu, Oana

Director and founder of GlobalFocus, a strategic analysis and foreign policy think-tank. She is also Senior Editor of Foreign Policy (Romanian edition of the international magazine), a frequent TV commentator on global affairs and guest lecturer with the Romanian National Defence Academy. She served as Foreign Affairs Adviser to the President of the Romanian Senate, Programmes Director with the Aspen Institute Romania and before that as a journalist. She specialised in emerging threats, democratisation, political transitions and post-conflict reconstruction at Yale University as a Fulbright Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School (USA) and St Andrew’s University (UK).

Participation

2014
Quatrepoint, Jean-Michel

French journalist and Co-President of the Institut de l’Iconomie. He was the head of the Nouvel Économiste (1997-2000), editor of La Lettre A (1993-1997), editor of the daily newspaper La Tribune de l’Expansion (1991). He was also Managing Director of La Tribune and l’Agefi (1984-1985), journalist in the economic section of Le Monde (1973-1984), journalist at the daily newspaper Les Echos (1970-1973). He is the author of La Crise Globale (2008) and La Dernière Bulle (2009) (Editions Mille et une Nuits, Fayard), Mourir pour le yuan (2011) Editions Bourin and  Le Choc des Empires (2014), Gallimard, Alstom scandale d’Etat, Fayard (2015). He graduated from the CFJ (French centre for journalism studies).

Participation

2013 2014 2015
Ramsay, William

Former Director of the Energy Program at Ifri. He formerly served as Deputy Executive Director at the International Energy Agency (IEA), where he also managed relations with non-member countries. He also held the posts of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the US State Department and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Congo. As Head of the Office of Energy Producing Countries, he oversaw bilateral discussions on energy issues between the United States and Mexico, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Japan. He received a MBA in International Marketing from the University of Michigan and a Master’s in International Business and Raw Materials at Stanford University in California.

Participation

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Anil Razdan
Bio
Razdan, Anil

Former Power Secretary of India. Energy expert and international negotiator. He was India Chair of World Energy Council. He is currently chairing the Energy and Environment Foundation, New Delhi, India, and also the Expert Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Environment for Infrastructure and Coastal Projects. He is also Scientific Consultant for Energy Technologies, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India for developing Advanced Ultra Super Critical Technology. He studied Physics and Law at Delhi University and has been a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. Among various awards, he received the Hiralal Daga Gold Medal in Law.

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2012 2014
Rhee, Changyong

Director of the Asia and Pacific Department, IMF, since 2014. Before joining the IMF, he was Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He was also the Secretary General and Sherpa of the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G-20 Seoul Summit, as well as Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Korea. He was a Professor of Economics at Seoul National University and Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and his Bachelor degree in Economics from Seoul National University.

Participation

2014
Ricquier, Anita

Founder and Managing Director of Camelot Trust Pte Ltd. Her focus is on family wealth and businesses. She supports her clients on family governance, sustainability of business and wealth objectives in terms of risk management and succession planning to ensure smooth transition of leadership in business and wealth transference.

Participation

2014 2015 2016 2019 2022 2023
Jin Roy Ryu
Bio
Ryu, Jin Roy

Chairman and CEO of Poongsan Group, one of the largest manufacturers of metal products and munitions in the world. He is actively involved in numerous business organizations notably as Vice Chairman of the Korea-U.S. Economic Council, Vice Chairman of the Korea Defense Industry Association and Vice Chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries. Additionally, he supports a number of philanthropic organizations worldwide. He serves as Board Chairman of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Korea, a Vice Chairman of Korea Mecenat Association. Also, he played instrumental role in bringing The Presidents Cup golf tournament to Korea, and served as Chairman of The Presidents Cup 2015 Tournament Organization Committee.

Participation

2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Il SaKong
Bio
SaKong, Il

Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for Global Economics, former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Korea (1987-1988). He held several key positions in the Korean government including Senior Secretary to the President for Economic Affairs (1983-1987), Ambassador for International Economy and Trade (2000-2002), Special Economic Advisor to the President (2008-2009) and Chairman of the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G20 Summit (2009-2011). He also served as Special Consultant to the International Monetary Fund (1989-1992) and Chairman of the Korea International Trade Association (2009-2012). He taught economics at New York University (1969-1973). Dr. SaKong graduated from Seoul National University (1964) and received his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of California in Los Angeles.

Participation

2008 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2018 2019
Luc-François Salvador
Bio
Salvador, Luc-François

Executive Chairman for the new Asia-Pacific entity of the Capgemini Group. Former Chairman & CEO of Sogeti and member of Capgemini Group Executive Committee. He joined Cap Sogeti Group in 1978. He served among others as Vice Chief Executive of Capgemini France, Vice Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini America and Deputy Director of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. Since 2009, he has been the Executive Committee’s sponsor for Defense activities in France, acting on behalf of the Capgemini Group. The French Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appointed him as National Coordinator of the French Cyber Defense Military Reserve in 2012. He graduated from the University Witwatersrand, South Africa and from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale.

Participation

2012 2013 2014 2015
Sano, Tadakatsu

Attorney-at-law at Jones Day. His practice focuses on regulatory compliance and encompasses a broad range of government regulations, product safety, installment sales regulations, commercial transactions regulations, foreign direct investment regulation, energy and environment, and competition law. He represents various clients in civil disputes. He spent 35 years at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. During his tenure as Director-General of the Trade Policy Bureau and Vice Minister for International Affairs, he worked in the field of international trade policy. He served as Chief Executive Assistant to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2009-2010).

Participation

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023
Scott, Ben

Senior Advisor to the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. and Program Director at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin. Previously, he was Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State. He also led the Washington office for Free Press, a non-profit organization focused on public education and public interest advocacy in media and communications policy. He holds a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois.

Participation

2014
Meir Sheetrit
Bio
Sheetrit, Meir

Former Member of the Israeli Knesset (member for 30 years). Born in Morocco, he emigrated to Israel in 1957 and served in a number of high-level cabinet positions, including Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing and Construction, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice, Minister of Intelligence Affairs and the Committee of Atomic Energy, Minister of Transportation and Minister of Education, Culture and Sports. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1981 and served as Mayor of the City of Yavne. He holds a BA and a MA from Bar-Ilan University. He is Head of leadership & public management in the MBA program at Ruppin Academic Center.

Participation

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2019 2022
Shin, Kak-Soo

Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy. Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Japan (2011-2013). He held the position of Advisor to the Foreign Minister in 1995. In 2004, he was appointed as Deputy permanent representative at the Korean Mission to the UN and in 2006 as Ambassador to Israel. He served as second Vice-Minister in charge of functional affairs in the foreign Ministry (2008-2009). In November 2009, he was promoted to first Vice-Minister taking charge of regional affairs. He earned a master’s degree (LLM) in international law and a S.J.D from the Graduate School of Law at SNU.

Participation

2014
Signé, Landry

Landry Signé is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and Founding Chairman of the Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity. He is also fellow at Stanford University’s Center for African Studies, chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Research and Creative Activity and assistant professor of political science at UAA, and lecturer in Emerging Markets at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies. His research and policy work focuses on the transformation of African economies, governance, political processes, development, and the role of international actors in Africa. He is the recipient of 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity and the Governor General of Canada Award.

Participation

2014 2015
Simon, Tobby

Founder and President of Synergia, a strategic think tank and incubation company that works in the area in deep tech and advanced technologies. He is a Commissioner with the Global Commission for Internet Governance (GCIG) and a member of the Trilateral Commission. He served as advisory board member of the Center for New American Security (CNAS), the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He has been adviser to several international organizations such as The World Health Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières and AEDES-EU. He is a university topper, holds post graduate degree in management, is a graduate from the Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in strategic security.

Participation

2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2022 2023
Snyder, Scott

Senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he had also served as an adjunct fellow (2008-2011). Prior to joining CFR, he founded and directed the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and served as the Asia Foundation’s representative in Korea (2000-2004). He has authored numerous books on Korean politics and Asian regionalism and writes for the blog Asia Unbound. He holds a BA from Rice University and an MA from the regional studies East Asia program, Harvard University.

Participation

2014
Sur, Serge

Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Agrégé in Public Law, he is Emeritus Professor of Public Law, University of Paris Panthéon-Assas, where he set up the Master of International Relations (2000-2012). He was Deputy Director of the UNIDIR, Geneva (1986-1996) and ad hoc Judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague (2009-2012). He is the founder and was Director (1999-2012) of the Thucydides Center-Analysis and Research in International Relations, and Director (2000-2020) of the French Yearbook of International Relations (AFRI). He is also Editor-in-chief of the bimonthly journal Questions internationales since 2003 (Documentation française). In 2008, he received the Edouard Bonnefous Award from the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Institut de France.

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2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022
Riad Tabet
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Tabet, Riad

President of Berit International Holding SA, President of Batiliban-France, Franco-Arab Consortium for development, board member of the executive committee of the Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Paris, board member and founding member of the Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce, Beyrouth. He was Advisor to the Lebanese President for the French-speaking world (1986-1988) and Advisor to the Minister of Finance for the private sector (1999-2001). He is the author of numerous books and studies on economic development, environment and land-use planning. He graduated from the Institut d’Urbanisme, Paris-Sorbonne University.

Participation

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Anatoly V. Torkunov
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Torkunov, Anatoly V.

Russian scholar and diplomat, expert on Russian foreign policy and Asia-Pacific region. Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor Torkunov holds positions of the Chairman of the UN Association of Russia, President of the Russian International Studies Association, Member of the Academic Council of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, co-Chairman of the Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters (2007-2016). He is Chairman of Moscow Region Civic Chamber, co-President of the Russian Historical Society, co-Chairman of the Committee on difficult issues in the history of Russian-Japanese relations, co-President of the Russian-French Civil Societies Forum “Trianon Dialogue”.

Participation

2008 2011 2013 2014 2021
Trichet, Jean-Claude

President of the French “Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques”. He is honorary chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bruegel Institute (Brussels), honorary chairman of the Group of Thirty (Washington) and former European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Jean-Claude Trichet was President of the European Central Bank (2003-2011). He was Governor of Banque de France (1993-2003) and Undersecretary of the French Treasury (1987- 1993). He was President of the Paris Club (debt rescheduling) (1985-1993), President of the European Monetary Committee (1992-1993), President of the Group of 10 Central Banks Governors and President of the Global economy meeting in Basel (2002-2011). He was President of Sogepa (Société de Gestion des Participations Aéronautiques) (2012-2013) and Director of Airbus Group (2012-2018). He was named “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times in 2007 and n° 5 of the “World Most Powerful” in the Newsweek list (2008). Born in Lyon in 1942, Jean-Claude Trichet is an honorary inspecteur général des Finances and ingénieur civil des Mines. He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, of the Université de Paris (in economics) and of the École Nationale d’Administration. Jean-Claude Trichet has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities.

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2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Vaïsse, Justin

A French historian, he was appointed Director of Policy Planning at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March 2013. In this role, he advises the Minister on his strategic decisions and provides background analysis and forecast on international affairs. Prior to this appointment, Justin Vaïsse was Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor at SAIS (Johns Hopkins University). An Associate teacher at the Paris School of International Affairs, Dr. Vaïsse is the author of numerous books on the United States, including Neoconservatism – The Biography of a Movement (Harvard University Press, 2010). His biography of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was published in France in early 2016 and will come out in English in 2017.

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2014 2015 2016 2017
Vedal, Sverre

Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health.  He directs the US Environmental Protection Agency Center for Clean Air Research at the University of Washington and has published widely on air pollution exposure and health effects.  He is currently pursuing air pollution health effects research with collaborators in China at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES) through a successional chair program from the AXA Research Fund.  He received his MD from the University of Colorado and MSc in epidemiology from Harvard University.

Participation

2014
Védrine, Hubert

Founder of Hubert Védrine Conseil, a public affairs consultancy specialized in international, economic and geopolitical issues. He was President of the Institut François Mitterrand until 2022. Prior to that, Hubert Védrine served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of Lionel Jospin from June 1997 to May 2002. From 1996 to 1997, he was a partner in the law firm Jeantet et Associés. He was a member of the French Council of State as maître des requêtes in 1986-1988 and 1995-1996, and then in 2002-2003. From 2005 to 2021, he led a seminar at Sciences Po Paris on the perception of threats in international relations. From 1981 to 1995, he was diplomatic advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, spokesman and, from 1991 to 1995, Secretary-General. Before that, he was a civil administrator in the Ministry of Culture from 1974 to 1981. In 2020, he was appointed by France to participate in the group of personalities in charge of a reflection on the future of NATO in 2030. He is the author of numerous books. In June 2020, he published an essay on the pandemic, Et après ? (Fayard), in 2021, Dictionnaire amoureux de la géopolitique and in 2022, Une Vision du Monde (BOUQUINS) which brings together his main texts of the last 30 years. Mr. Védrine also has a degree in history, and is an alumnus of ENA.

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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022
Verellen, Franciscus

Historian of medieval China, member of the Institut de France, professor and former director of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (2004-2014). He has taught the history of Chinese religions in France, the United States, and China. Since 2014 he has served as director of the EFEO Hong Kong Centre and senior research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Chinese religion and regional history. His latest book, Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China, is forthcoming from the Harvard University Press in early 2019. His current interests are focused on the break-up of the Tang empire and the role of military and religious elites in the Tang-Five Dynasties transition in the tenth century.

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2013 2014 2015 2018
Weymuller, Bruno

Member of Total Professeurs Associés, and of the French Energy Council. He was Executive Vice President at Total in charge of Strategy and Risk Assessment (2000-2008). He was Chief Financial Officer of Elf Aquitaine (1994-2000). He began his career at the Ministry for Industry (1972-1978), then he joined the Prime Minister Raymond Barre’s cabinet (1978-1981). He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Ecole des mines in Paris. He holds a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2022 2023
Wing, Rod A.

Honors Professor, Honors College, University of Arizona and Co-Chair, College of Agriculture & Life Science Dean’s Research Advisory Committee (DRAC) since 2012. He is also AXA Chair for Genome Biology & Evolutionary Genomics, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines/University of Arizona (2014-2019). He was Alexander von Humboldt Sabbatical Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany (2009-2010). He served as Director of the Clemson University Genomics Institute (1997-2002). He holds a PhD in Genetics from the University of California, Davis.

Participation

2014
Wu Jianmin
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Wu, Jianmin

Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Member and Vice President of the European Academy of Sciences and Honorary President of the International Bureau of Exhibitions (BIE). He served among others as President of China Foreign Affairs University, (2003-2008), China’s Ambassador to France (1998-2003), to the United Nations Office in Geneva and to other international organizations in Switzerland (1996-1998) and to the Netherlands (1994-1995). He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Participation

2014
Yeoh, Michael

President of KSI Strategic Institute for Asia Pacific, an independent non-profit think tank. He was previously CEO of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI). He has over 36 years of senior corporate management, consulting and boardroom experience. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Economic Club of Kuala Lumpur, a Director of the British-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and a General Committee member of the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Michael has served the Government including as Malaysia’s Representative (Ambassador rank) to the ASEAN High-Level Task Force on Connectivity, Member of the Malaysia Competition Commission and Commissioner in the Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM). He was recently appointed to the Executive Council of the United Nations ESCAP Sustainable Business Network. He holds a degree in Economics from Monash University and is Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from the University of Nottingham.

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2017
Yim Sung-Joon
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Yim, Sung-joon

Senior Advisor at Lee International IP & Law Group. Previously, he held the position of President of the Korea Foundation (2007-2010). He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974 and served, among others, as Korean Ambassador to Canada (2004-2007) and Egypt (1996-1999). In 2001, he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and in 2002, he was appointed as the National Security Advisor to President Kim Dae-jung. He formerly co-chaired the Korea-Canada Forum. He graduated from Seoul National University, Oxford University and Keio University.

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2009 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2022 2023
Yu Myung-Hwan
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Yu, Myung-Hwan

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Sejong University in Seoul. He is also a senior adviser of Kim & Chang Law Office. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2008-2010). He started his foreign service in Japan in 1976 and returned as Ambassador to Japan in 2007. He also served as Ambassador to the State of Israel in 2002 and then to the Philippines in 2004. He graduated from the Law School of Seoul National University and studied at the Hague Institute for Social Sciences in 1975.

Participation

2013 2014
Yun Byung-se
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Yun, Byung-se

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (2013-2017). Previously, he was a Member of the Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs, National Defense and Unification, the 18th Presidential Transition Committee. He was also a Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Sogang University. In 2006, he served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, MOFAT. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 1977. He graduated from the Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University and holds a MA from The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University.

Participation

2014
Natallia Zhylevich
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Zhylevich, Natallia

Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Korea since September 2011. H.E. Mrs. Zhylevich is a carrier diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs starting from 1992. She served as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to UNESCO (Paris, France), Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Turkey, and Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. She graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University and speaks English, French, Turkish.

Participation

2014