Mohammed Kabbaj (Morocco) : Graduate of the Polytechnique de Paris with a degree in economics, he has held various Moroccan government posts such as Minister of Public Works, and then Minister of Finance. Former Counsellor to His Majesty King Mohammed VI, and currently wali of the greater Casablanca , he is President of the Fes Forum and of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
Faouzi Skalli (Morocco) : Anthropologist, writer and Sufi specialist. Director General of the Fes Forum and the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Member of the Groupe des Sages pour Le Dialogue des Peuples et des Cultures for the European Commission. Member of the World Faith and Development Leaders. Member of C100 : Council of 100 leaders set up by the World Economic Forum for Initiating Dialogue between the West and Islam.
Katherine Marshall (United States) : Counsellor to the President of the World Bank, she is particularly concerned with project development in the field of poverty reduction, prevention and resolution of conflicts, and in the relation between ethics, faith and development.
Abbadi Ahmed (Morocco) : Director of Islamic Affairs at the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs, PhD from the Sorbonne and MSc from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the USA .
Arfaoui Amel (Tunisia) : Reporter for TF1, Amel searches the world to keep us well-informed. Her work with Patrick Delporte on the plight of orphans in Romania won her the 2000 Nuit des Yeux d’Or prize for documentary film.
Arhab Rachid(France) : Journalist, presenter of the 13h00 news programme on France 2 from 1998 to September 2000, with Carole Gaessler. Since that time, Rachid Arhab has written and presented the programme J’ai rendez-vous avec vous.
Attali Jacques (France) : writer, former advisor to François Mitterand, journalist on l’Express. He is president of A&A and founding president of PlaNet Finance (micro-funding), an international organisation for poverty relief.
AYOUCH Noureddine (Morocco) : Currently president of the Living Arts Foundation in Casablanca and CEO of Shem’s Publicité. In 1995 he founded the Zakoura Foundation for Micro-credit. He is also a founding member of the Education and Training Commission.
AYOUCHE Mouhcine (Morocco) : Management and political science training. former general secretary of FNBTP and vice-president of UNEM and currently delegate director of CGEM. Author of various articles on the economy, politics and culture.
AZOULAY André (Morocco) : Counsellor to His Majesty King Mohammed VI. He actively seeks to promote peace and dialogue between the Arab-Islamic world and the Jewish community through the group ‘Identity and Dialogue’. Deputy President of the Fondation des Trois Cultures, he is also Administrator of the Euro-Mediterranean Forum and the Shimon Peres Centre for Peace.
Backer Kristiane (Germany) : Journalist and presenter of television programmes, she is the first German presenter on MTV Europe (between 1989 and 1995).
Barber Benjamin R. (USA) : Professor at the University of Maryland , a thinker on globalisation, committed teacher and author of the premonitory book Djihad versus McWorld, he presents a series of projects for the development of world-wide civil society, of which Interdependence Day is one.
BARRAT Patrice (France) : Producer, film maker and journalist. Founded and is President of the audiovisual press agency Article Z, a new structure for production. Founder of the NGO The Bridge Initiative on Globalisation (www.bridgesinitiative.org).
BARRADA Hamid(Morocco/France) : Journalist, he has been for many years editor in chief of Jeune Afrique. He was director of marketing for the East and the Maghreb for TV5. Author of L’Arabe et le Juif, Dialogue de guerre
BENJELLOUN nadia (Morocco-France) : Phd from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, Middle-East specialist, writer and journalist. Formerly Professor of Political Science, Head of Mission at the Quai d’Orsay , at Unesco, and at the Moroccan Embassy in Paris . Currently European Director of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
Benmokhtar Rachid (Morocco) : Moroccan politician and professor, President of the Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. Having graduated in aeronautical engineering in Toulouse , he returned to Morocco to pursue a career in computer science, engineering and entrepreneurship. He lectures at the university and works at the Ministry of National Education, where he has been made Minister. He is concerned with the creation of a valid employment market for young Moroccan graduates in order to prevent their emigration.
BENSALAH Assia Alaoui (Morocco) : Recently nominated Roving Ambassador, she is a lecturer in International Economic Law and co-president of the Groupe des Sages sur le dialogue des peoples et des cultures for the European Commission. She is also a member of various committees for peace in the Near East .
BONIFACE Pascal (France) : Director of the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS). Author of more than 40 articles on international relations, he is also editor of La Revue Internationale et Stratégique and l’Année Stratégique. He is a member of the Support Committee of the African Diplomatic Academy , and member of the UN’s Consultative Council for Disarmament (2001-2005).
Bonnier Henry (France) : Writer awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique of the Académie Française for his work. Editor, he has published Le Défi of HM Hassan II. He is Publishing Director of Editions du Rocher, which published L’Esprit de Fès.
BUKHARI Sheikh Abdul Aziz (Palestine) : Master of the Sufi Naqshabandi in the Holy Land , he preaches the way towards peace and reconciliation in Jerusalem . He is intimately involved in various interfaith movements.
Cayrol Roland (France) : Research Director of the National Foundation of Political Science in Paris , where he works on comparative politics; Director General of the Institut des Sondages CSA, he has worked in various written and audiovisual media. He has just published La Nuit des Politiques.
Chahid Leïla (Palestine) : Born in Beirut , she was elected President of the Union of Palestinian Students in 1975 in France . Long-time editor of the Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes, she is now General Delegate for Palestine and representative of the PLO in Brussels (European Union).
Chevènement Jean-Pierre (France) : French politician, founder of the Mouvement des Citoyens and Mayor of Belfort. He was one of the founders of the Socialist Party in 1971 and a supporter of François Mitterrand. A Minister of State several times over in socialist governments, he eventually left the Socialist Party to found the Mouvement des Citoyens in 1992, of which he is currently President.
Collomb Bertrand (France) : President and Director General of Lafarge, he is also Director of Total Fina Elf SA and of Vivendi Universal and President of the French Association for Private Enterprise (AFEP). He is also a member of the Institut de France.
DE BOURBON Francisco D. (Spain) : Duke of Seville, a leading Spaniard, President of the IECSA SA (Spain), Grand Master of the The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus.
Diercks de Casterlé Emmanuel (Belgium/Morocco) : Representative of the United Nations Programme Development (UNPD) in Morocco . He has contributed to the 50 th anniversary report on human development.
EL YAZAMI Driss (Morocco) : General Delegate of the Assocation Génériques, an organisation researching immigration in France ; Editorial manager of the journal Migrance. Former member of The Equité et Réconciliation Commission and current president of the Fondation Euroméditerranéenne pour la Protection des Défenseurs des Droits de l’Homme.
FARSHAD Aryana (Iran) : Film-maker. Having studied cinematography in Paris , she continued to work in France and in Iran where she won the ABU Award for her film The Emigrant Birds. She then worked in post-production in the US at MGM studios and Columbia Pictures. The film Mystic Iran : The Unseen World is her first long documentary.
FILALY ANSARI Abdou (Morocco) : Recognised as one of the great humanistic thinkers of the Islamic world, he manages the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London . From Tehran to Cairo , and Karachi to Riyad, he is without doubt one of the principal thinkers on reform.
GENTILI Steve (France) : President of the BRED Banque Populaire, President of the French-Speaking Community Business Forum (Forum Francophone des Affaires).
GUERRAND-HERMES Simon Xavier (France) : Director and Vice-President of Hermès of Paris and New York . He is the fifth generation of the Hermès family to be involved in the management of the company. Member of the Council of the Harvard Divinity School . Honorary Fellow at Oxford and Treasurer of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. He founded the Fondation Guerrand-Hermès pour la Paix which actively supports interfaith dialogue.
GUIGOU Elizabeth (France) : Politician and former advisor to François Mitterand between 1982 and 1990, then Minister of European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, a deputy in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, Minister of Justice from 1997 to 2000, Minister of Employment and Solidarity from October 2000 to May 2002.
GUIGOU Jean-Louis (France) : Former delegate from DATAR (l’Amémagement du Territoire et à l’action régionale). Professor of university economics. Currently president of Institut Calame.
HASHEM NIMER AQTAM Aisheh (Palestine) : MA in Education Management. Board member of the Forum of Palestinian Families for Peace and Equality. In charge of Education programme with the Forum.
HAFIDI Abderrahim(Morocco/France) : Political scientist, currently teaching Contemporary History of the Maghreb at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris . Consultant to various French media on Islamic questions, he presents the programme ‘Islam’ on France 2.
HAFIZ Chems-Eddine (France) : Barrister in Paris . Member of the executive of the Conseil Français du Culte Musulman, President of the association Vivre l’islam, Sunday morning television programme presenter on France 2. Author of Droit et religion musulmane, alloz.
HirsChfieldRabbi Bradley (United States) : Orthodox Rabbi, Vice-President of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL).
Jazouli Adil(Morocco-France) : Sociologist, a specialist of social and urban issues in french suburbs and founder of Banlieuescopies, advising the city of Paris . Author of many works on French suburbs.
KESROUANI Father Elias (Lebanon) : Founder and President of the department of musicology in the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Notre Dame Louaizé in the Lebanon .
Manochhaya Katia Légeret (France) : Doctor of the Science of Art, researcher and university lecturer. She has published many works on the Indian tradition, including the myth of creation and the 108 stepsof the God Shiva. At the same time, she also has international career as a Bharata-natyam dancer, the sacred dance of southern India .
LUYCKXGhisi Marc (Belgium) : European expert at the European Commission’s Information Society, dean of the CBA Business School in Zagreb and director of ‘Vision 2020’ , a center for thought on societal change.
Collin Marks Susan (South Africa) : Teacher and writer, Vice-President of ‘Search for Common Ground’, an international organisation for conflict resolution. She is author of Watching the Wind : Conflict Resolution during South Africa ’s Transition to Democracy.
MARKS John (USA) : Founder and President of ‘Search for Common Ground’, an international NGO dedicated to the resolution of international conflicts, based in Washington and Brussels . Conceived, wrote and produced the television series The Shape of the Future which was broadcast simultaneously in Palestine and in Israel in 2005.
MENDES-FRANCE Mireille (France) : Professor of general didactics. For some years, her work has been centred essentially on human rights particularly with regard to international public law.
MOLLER Michael (Denmark) : Danish diplomat, special representative of the Secretary General for Cyprus and United Nations Operations Chief for the maintenance of peace in Cyprus (UNFICYP)
Moller Nicholas (Denmark) : Businessman, President of the Global Institute for New Energy Technologies (GIFNET).
PANHUYS Henry (Belgium) : Co-director of the Economie Pluriellepublications at the publishing house Editions l’Harmattan. Former international consultant at BIT, the World Bank and various development organisations. Author of the work La fin de l’occidentalisation du monde ? de l’unique au multiple. ‘Harmattan)
Peled-Elhanan Nurit (Israel) : Israeli winner of the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights in 2001, she helped to create the Cercle des Familles Endeuillées (Circle of Bereaved Families). This Association brings together Israeli and Palestinian families that have been victims of attacks.
PELT Jean-Marie (France) : Botanist and ecologist of note, President of the European Institute of Ecology since 1972, President of the European Association for Man, Nature and Life. Today he is particularly concerned with problems of food security, and notably the potential dangers of GMOs on health and the environment.
RABHI Pierre (France/Algeria) : writer, philosopher and international expert in the fight against desertification with a special interest in the sacred life-force of the Earth. Pioneer in agro-ecology and founder of the movement ‘Terre et Humanisme’, he leads training programmes in France and on the international scene to promote respect for nature, the safeguarding of nutritive heritage and food security. He has worked in Morocco since 2001 with the association ESPOD.
RAHMAN Zeyba ( USA) : In a public and private sector career spanning four continents, Zeyba Rahman uses the inventiveness of art and culture to inspire creative development in global communities. As Chairwoman of World Music Institute, New York and North American Director of the Spirit of Fes, Inc. Zeyba is deeply committed to the advancement of human rights and respect for cultural diversity.
RAHNEMA Majid (Iran) : Diplomat and former minister, he represented Iran at the United Nations. Having served as a member of the Executive Council at UNESCO and as resident representative of the United Nations in Mali , he has devoted himself to the problems of poverty for the last twenty years. Author of The Post-Development Reader and Quand la Misère chasse la pauvreté.
Reinharz Hazan Yaël : journalist, founder member of the International Film Festival on Human Rights. She has worked with the television channel La Cinq in London , as well as for various Swiss newspapers.
REZNICK Robert (Morocco/France) : President of the European Alliance . President of RISMA, an investment fund for tourism in Morocco . Kingford consultant, Société de Conseil et Aménagement Touristique. Promoter of links between cultural development and tourism for UNESCO. On the programme for the maintenance of health and longevity at Harvard University .
RIEFFEL Véronique (France) : For many years, manager of the cultural programme at the French Centre for Culture and Cooperation in Cairo , and at the French Cultural Centre in Alexandria . Since June 2005, she has been involved in cultural affairs in Paris and in the establishment of an institute of Muslim culture.
Rose Jonathan (USA) : President of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a network of companies working with community and land development and planning with towns and non-profit organisations to plan and develop environmental projects.
SABEG Yazid (Algeria) : President of the Council of Administration of the SSIICS (Communication and Systems) and member of the Institute for International and Strategic Relations. Co-author, with his brother Yacine, of Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper .
Senni Aziz (France) : Business leader, President of the Association des Jeunes Entrepreneurs in France, member of the Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants (CJD). Author of the book L’ascenseur social est en panne, j’ai pris l’escalier, of which the royalties are used to finance bursaries for college students at Mantes la Jolie.
SHELDRAKE Rupert (United Kingdom) : British biologist and physiologist, he is a former Fellow in Biochemistry at Clare College , Cambridge and Fellow of the Royal Society. Author of Seven Experiments that Could Change the World : A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science, the British Institute for Social Inventions’ Book of the Year in 1994.
SIDDHARTHA (India) : Member of the Fireflies Ashram, a socially and ecologically responsible community situated in a south Indian village. He is active within the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World in the field of government, media, water, an inter-religious college, ethics and development.
VIVERET Patrick (France) : Philosopher in education, consultant at the Court of Accounts in France and Director of the Pierre Mendès International Centre France(CIPMF), he is author of the French government report Reconsidérer la richesse (l’Aube) and of Pourquoi ça ne va pas plus mal? (Fayard).
WENDERSWim (Germany) : Director, screenwriter, producer, actor, director of photography and editor. He directed the well-known documentary Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Don’tCome Knocking (2005).
ZAOUAL Hassan(Morocco/France) : Director of the Research Group on Local Economies (GREL) at the University du Littoral Côte d’Opale (Dunkirk); founder of the international NGO South/North Network of Cultures and Development. Director of the collection ‘Economie Plurielle’ at the publishers L’Harmattan in Paris .
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