A sample of the speakers who’ve graced us with their presence over the last two decades.
Heads of State
Martti Ahtisaari
Former President, Finland; UN negotiator
Ruth Dreifuss
Former President, Switzerland; Federal Councillor for Home Affairs
Árpád Göncz
President, Hungary
Vytautas Landsbergis
Former President, Lithuania
Lennart Meri
Former President, Estonia
Arnold Rüütel
President, Estonia
Mario Soares
Former President, Portugal
George Vassiliou
Former President, Cyprus
Heads of Government
Bertie Ahern
Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Former Prime Minister, Poland
Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister, Sweden; UN envoy in Bosnia
Professor Jerzy Buzek
Former Prime Minister, Poland
Garret Fitzgerald
Former Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland
Yegor Gaidar
Former Prime Minister, Russia
Sir Edward Heath
Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Michel Rocard
Former Prime Minister, France
Armen Sarkissian
Former Prime Minister, Armenia; scientist; ambassador; businessman
Poul Schlüter
Former Prime Minister, Denmark
Haris Silajdzic
Prime Minister, Bosnia
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Former Prime Minister, Portugal
Jens Stoltenberg
Former Prime Minister, Norway
Franz Vranitzky
Former Chancellor, Austria
Politics
Sverker Åström
Former Under-Secretary of State, Sweden
Egon Bahr
Former Minister for Special Tasks, Germany
Leszek Balcerowicz
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Poland
Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Former Secretary General of the United Nations
Dr Hans van den Broek
Former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
Emil Constantinescu
Leader of the Opposition, Romania
Jiri Dienstbier
Former Foreign Minister, Czech Republic
Vuk Draskovic
President, Serbian Renewal Movement
Uffe Elleman-Jensen
Former Foreign Minister, Denmark
Joschka Fischer
Leader of the Green Party, Germany; now Foreign Minister
Tristan Garel-Jones
Former Minister for Europe, United Kingdom
Charles Grant
Director, Centre for European Reform
Verena Grendelmeier
MP, Switzerland; campaigner on Jewish bank accounts
Elisabeth Guigou
Minister of Justice, France
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson
Former Foreign Secretary, Iceland
Geoff Hoon
Defence Secretary, United Kingdom
Douglas Hurd
Former Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom
Erdal Inönü
Former Foreign Minister, Turkey
Géza Jeszensky
Former Foreign Minister, Hungary
Grzegorz Kolodko
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Poland
Lord Lamont
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom
Denis McShane
Minister for Europe, United Kingdom
Sergio de Mello
Former Chief of UN Administration, East Timo
Sir Michael Quinlan
Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Michael Papakonstantinou
Former Foreign Minister, Greece
Gramoz Pashko
Leader, Democratic Alliance Party, Albania
Trevor Phillips
Chair, Commissioner for Racial Equality, United Kingdom
Maria Rauch-Kallat
Secretary-General, Austrian Christian Democrats
Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Former Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom
Natan Sharansky
Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Israel
Alan Sked
Former Leader, UK Independence Party
Anatoly Sobchak
Former Mayor, St. Petersburg
Lord Stockton
Former MEP and journalist, The Daily Telegraph
Virginia Tsouderos
Former Foreign Minister, Greece
Jerzy Urban
Polish Minister of Information 1981-1989; writer
Gennady Zyuganov
Leader, Communist Party, Russia
Diplomacy
Sir John Coles
Former Permanent Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
Stuart Eizenstat
US Ambassador to the European Union
Dr Georg Hennig
Austrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Dr. Karel Kovanda
NATO Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic
Gebhardt von Moltke
German Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Eva Nowotny
Austrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Ion Pascu
Romanian Deputy Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Atsushi Tokinoya
Japanese Ambassador to the European Union
A. Vernon Weaver
US Ambassador to the European Union
Joachim Rücker
German Ambassador to Sweden
Andrey Pritsepov
Senior Councillor to the Russian Embassy in London
Zef Mazi
Albanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Academia
Antony Alcock
Author, expert on Northern Ireland
Professor Archie Brown
Director, Europe and Eastern European Centre, St. Antony’s College
Lord Dahrendorf
Former Warden, St Antony’s College
Professor Marc Ellenbogen
Prague Society; campaign manager for Al Gore and Gerhard Schroeder
Isi Foighel
Director, Danish Centre for Human Rights
Prof Timothy Garton Ash
St Antony’s College, Oxford; historian and expert on Eastern Europe
Sir Martin Gilbert
Official biographer of Churchill and acclaimed twentieth-century historian
Michael Kaser Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College
Peter Ludlow Director, Centre for European Policy Studies
Professor Geir Lundestad Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute
Professor Dominique Moisi
Deputy-Director, French Institute for Internation Relations
Larry Siedentop
Expert on European Integration, Oxford
Roland Sturm
Professor of Politics, Tübingen
Professor Loukas Tsoukalis
Expert on the European Monetary Union and enlargement
Culture
Sture Allén
Permanent Secretary, Nobel Prize Committee for Literature
Ian Black
Chief Foreign-Affairs Leader-Writer and former European Editor, The Guardian
Sir Christopher Bland
Former Chairman, BBC
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Environmental Artists
Antonio Carluccio
Chef and Restauranteur
Gianluigi Colalucci
Chief Restorer, Sistine Chapel
Dr Michel Friedman
Vice-President, German Jewish Council; President, European Jewish Congress
David Goodhart
Editor of Prospect magazine
Kenneth Gorby
Director of the Jewish Museum, Berlin
Étienne Guyon
Director, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Ross Johnson
President, Radio Free Europe
Garry Kasparov
World Chess Champion
Glen Kirton
Tournament Director, Euro ’96
Yannis Markopoulos
Greek composer
Kurt Masur
Conductor, New York Philharmonic
Lord Menuhin
Violinist and Conductor
Jørgen Olsen
Former Head, European Schools System
Piero Ottone
Italian writer and journalist
Alfredo Perl
Pianist
Sergio Pininfarina
Car designer and former MEP
Renzo Rosso
Founder and owner of Diesel
Sir Peter Ustinov
Actor; UNICEF Ambassador; Chancellor of Durham University
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Author and columnist for The Independent
International Organisations
Sir Leon Brittan
Vice-President of the European Commission
Juan-Manuel Fabra Valles
President, European Court of Auditors
Karl Habsburg MEP,
President of the Paneuropa Movement
Rosalyn Higgins
Judge, International Court of Justice
Raymond Kendall
European Union Fraud Officer
Lord Kinnock
European Commissioner; former Leader of the Opposition, United Kingdom
David Malone
President, International Peace Academy; former Canadian Ambassador to the UN
Norman Myers
Environmental advisor to the World Bank, UN and US government
Lord Patten
Former European Commissioner; Chancellor of Oxford University
Carla Del Ponte
Chief Prosecutor, International Court of Human Rights
Klaus Reinhardt
Former Commander of KFOR, NATO
Ali Rodriguez-Araque
Secretary-General, OPEC
Sir Michael Rose
Former Commander, United Kingdom, UN Forces in Bosnia
Jamie Shea
Spokesman, NATO
Javier Solana
Former Secretary-General, NATO; now EU Foreign Minister
Thorvald Stoltenberg
UN Mediator in the former Yugoslavia
Morris Rosen
Deputy Head, International Atomic Energy Agency
Daniel Tarschys
Former Secretary-General, Council of Europe
Stephen Tindale
Director, Greenpeace UK
Klaus Töpfer
Director, UN Environmental Program
John Wiggins
UK Member of the European Court of Auditors
Economics
John Flemming
Former Chief Economist of the EBRD; Warden of Wadham College
Lord Kingsdown
Former Governor, Bank of England
Professor Israel Kirzner
Austrian School economist; rabbi; New York University
Graham Leach
Chief Economist, Institute of Directors
Christian Noyer
Vice-President, European Central Bank
John Peet
Europe Editor, The Economist magazine
Renato Ruggiero
Former Director General, World Trade Organization
John Townend
Director for Europe, Bank of England
Evan Davis
Presenter of BBC Today Programme
Industry
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
CEO, Nestlé
Ian Davis
Managing Director, McKinsey & Co (UK)
Drušn Gruden Ferdinand
Porsche AG
Claus Razim
Chief Environmental Officer, Mercedes-Benz AG
Edzard Reuter
Former Chairman, Daimler-Benz AG
Dr Ulrich Schumacher
CEO Infineon Technologies
Lord Simon
Former Chairman, BP; Minister for Trade and Competition, United Kingdom
Iain Vallance
Chairman, BT
Science
Jean-Jacques Dordain
Associate Director, European Space Agency
Ingo Kober
President, European Patent Office
Bjorn Lomborg
Author, The Sceptical Environmentalist
Lord Oxburgh
Chairman, Shell; geologist; former Rector, Imperial College, London
Morris Rosen
Deputy Head, International Atomic Energy Agency
Jens Reich Scientist
Former Presidential Candidate, Germany
Antonio Rodotà
Former Director, European Space Agency
