Kerim Yildiz is an expert in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, international human rights law and minority rights, having worked on numerous projects in these areas over his career. He was formerly co-founder and Chief Executive of the Kurdish Human Rights Project.
Senator Bogdan Klich is the Leader of the Opposition in the Polish Senate, and Deputy Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. He comes from Krakow, where he also lectures in the Jagiellonian University. From 2007 to 2011 he served as Minister of Defence in the Government of Donald Tusk. As a student he was active in the struggle for a democratic country, and was interned in 1981 by the communist regime. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2017.
Richard Werly, 52, is the France and European Affairs correspondent for Le Temps, Switzerland's main French-language daily newspaper. Formerly based in Tokyo, Bangkok and Brussels, he now works from Paris. Richard is also the publisher of «L'ame des peuples» (Nevicata Publishing), a collection of 50 books, each focusing on the culture, identity and 'personality' of a particular country.
Jean Brown is one of the elders for Creators of Peace (CoP) and has been involved with CoP since 1994. Jean is the designer of the Creators of Peace Circles which have spread to 50 countries over the last fifteen years. She authored the CoP facilitation and training manuals and most recently was the convenor for CoP's 25th anniversary conference.
Passionate about science since his childhood, Suat Top naturally turned to Research. After a doctoral thesis in the field of Physics he got a position of Professor in Quantum Physics at the University of Paris-Saclay in 2008. During more than 15 years Suat studied, taught and lead Research in the field of quantum physics with the constant desire to understand all the secrets of the Nature. The hazards of life have led him to focus on the harmful effects that radio-waves could have on living organisms.
Robert Rubinstein is the Chairman and Founding Partner of TBLI Group Holdings B.V. with headquarters in The Netherlands. The Company was founded in 1998 with the mission of integrating ESG and TBLI into the culture and strategy of international corporate business and investment companies. Mr. Rubinstein has been instrumental in championing Sustainable and IMPACT investment dedicated to solving social issues.
Anne-Claire Frank-Seisay is Dutch-French and currently living in the USA. She is on the International Committee of Creators of Peace International. She was a member of Initiatives of Change for 10 years in the Netherlands, before moving to the USA.
In the Netherlands, she worked for the City of Amsterdam as an interim project manager and also facilitated many large group conversations around the city on many different topics. She currently works in international education on the east coast of the USA.
Aching Shaiza is a pianist and mezzo soprano. She graduated from Patkai Christian College, Nagaland and trained under the tutelage of an American organist, Mrs. Margaret A. Shishak, M.Mus Michigan University.
Aching Shaiza is the founding Director of Delhi Genesis Choir, whose arrangements range from Classical to Jazz, Broadway and Pop. She holds a certificate in ATCL, Dip.ABRSM, Performer's Certificate both Piano and Voice from the associated board of Trinity College of Music and The Royal School of Music, London.
Mal Williams is recognized as occupying a leading role in the development of Real Zero Waste (not simply zero to landfill) and sustainability principles over the last twenty years. As a founder member of Zero Waste International Alliance (www.zwia.org) he has actively promoted Zero Waste throughout the world and is now the Executive Director of The Zero Waste International Trust.
Emma Hallett is Team Leader for Wales’s Collaborative Change team, responsible for helping replicate the ‘Welsh Recycling Blueprint’ across Wales’s local authorities. Using source separation of recyclables at the kerbside and keeping, separation of food waste to keep all other materials clean, the blueprint ensures maximum quality for recyclable materials and has enabled Wales to rise from the worst performing recycler in Europe to be the 3rd best globally. The blueprint is a crucial step in moving from an extractive system of land degradation to a Circular Economy.