Die Rolle von Denkfabriken
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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German and English language
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Ph.D. Cheryl BENARD
Analyst, RAND Corporation; Director, Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth (IMEY), Arlington
B.A. from the American University of Beirut | |
Ph.D. from the University of Vienna | |
Novelist and Feminist author on topics including current events, women in nation-building, youth radicalization in the European Diaspora, and secularization pertaining to Islam |
Haleh ESFANDIARI
Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
1968-1970 | Lecturer in Persian language, Oxford University, England
1973-1976 | Deputy Secretary General, Women's Organization of Iran
1977-1979 | Director, Bagh e Ferdows Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
1980-1994 | Lecturer in Persian language and literature, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Ph.D. Ahmet EVIN
Founding Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul; Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington, D.C.
1966 | B.A. Columbia University
1971-1972 | Lecturer, New York University
1972-1973 | Taught at Harvard University
1973 | Ph.D. Columbia University
1973-1974 | Fellow, Harvard University
1974-1976 | Taught at Hacettepe University, Ankara
1977-1986 | Taught at the University of Pennsylvania
1983-1986 | Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania
1985-1986 | Professor, University of Hamburg
1986-1992 | Director of Education, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Paris and Geneva
1992-1993 | Head, Ankara Corporate Affairs Office, Philip Morris International
1994-1995 | Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg
1994 | Initiated a policy dialogue on the future European architecture, Turkey s place in that architecture, EU enlargement, and the effects of the customs union agreement with Turkey. Based on that initiative he established, in cooperation with a broad network of European research institutes and universities, Turkey s EU Membership Observatory now based at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University
1995-1997 | Professor of Political Science, Bilkent, Ankara (also headed 1995-96 the Department of Political Science and Public Administration)
since 2007 | Senior Faculty, Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University
1997-2001 | Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul
2001 | Founding and Executive Board Member of the Istanbul Policy Center
2004 | Visiting Professor, Northwestern University
2004-2005 | Alexander Onassis senior fellow and visiting scholar at ELIAMEP: the Hellenic Foundation for European Foreign Policy, Athens
Ivan VEJVODA
Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Belgrade
Graduated from Institut d etudes politiques, Paris | |
Post graduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University | |
1984-1993 | Political Scientist, Institute for European Studies, Belgrade|
1989 | Co-founder of the Democratic Forum in Belgrade|
1992 | Co-founder of the Belgrade Circle of independent intellectuals|
1993-1996 | Lecturer, University of Sussex, Sussex European Institute|
1996-1997 | Lecturer, Macalester College, Minnesota|
1997-1998 | Lecturer, Smith College, Massachusetts|
1998-2002 | Executive Director, Soros Foundation, Belgrade|
2002-2003 | Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindjic
Dr. Karin KNEISSL
Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna
On 18 December 2017, Dr Karin Kneissl was appointed Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria. Karin Kneissl was born in 1965 in Vienna. She studied law and Arab studies at the University of Vienna. She also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Amman, the University of Urbino and was a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Karin Kneissl is also a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris. From 1990 to 1998 Karin Kneissl held a number of posts in the Austrian diplomatic service, including in the cabinet of then foreign minister Dr Alois Mock, in the Office of International Law and at the Austrian embassies in Paris and Madrid. | |
Since 1998 Karin Kneissl has worked as an independent lecturer in the areas of international law, Middle Eastern history and the energy market at various universities, including the University of Vienna; the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna; the European Business School in the Rheingau, Germany; the International Centre for Human Sciences in Byblos, Lebanon; Saint-Joseph University in Beirut; as well as at the Austrian Armed Forces National Defence Academy, Vienna and Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria. Karin Kneissl has also worked since 1998 as an independent commentator and correspondent for numerous German and English-speaking print media, as well as for the Austrian state broadcaster ORF. She has authored a large number of books and publications. Karin Kneissl is co-founder and vice president of Whistleblowing Austria as well as vice president of the Society for Politico-Strategic Studies, STRATEG. She has worked in local politics in her home community of Seibersdorf and plays an active role in numerous non-profit organisations in Austria and Lebanon. Karin Kneissl speaks various foreign languages: Arabic, English, French, Hebrew (basic), Italian, Hungarian (basic) and Spanish. |