Improving the Interfaith and Inter-Civilizational Dialogue to Cooperation
International Conference; Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
International Participants

Abdulaziz Altwaijri
General Director of ISESCO
Morocco /
Saudi Arabia

His Beatitude Theodoros II
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Greece/
Egypt

Halit Eren
Director General of IRCICA (Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture)
Turkey

Fahad Abualnasr
Director General of KAICIID (International Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue Centre
Saudi Arabia

Rabbi Marc Schneier
President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, USA
USA

Abdullah AlMatouq
Special Adviser of the SG of UN, Chairman of the International Islamic Charity Organization
Kuwait

President Moncef Marzouki
Former President of Tunisia
Tunesia

Selim Argun
Deputy Head of the Presidency of Religious Affairs
Turkey

Swami Jyothirmayah (Joshy Chungath)
Founder of the “Art of living” International NGO (special representative of Shri Shri Shankar)
India /
Germany

Usamah El Abed
Chairperson of the Parliament Committee for the Religious Affairs
Egypt

Mohammad Sammak
Member of BoD of KAICIID
Lebanon

Khaled Akasheh
Head of Department of Dialogue with Islam in the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Vatican

Emmanuel Sfiatkos
Very Reverend Archimandrite of the Ecumenic Throne, Representative of the Orthodox Bishops Conference in Germany at the seat of the German Federal Government and the Federal Parliament
Greece/
Germany

Albir Krqanov
Mufti of Moscow, Head of the Spiritual Council of the Muslims of Russia
Russia

Archimandrite Philaret (Aleksander Bulekov)
Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Special Representative of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
Russia

Malek Bou Tanous
Superior General Father of the Lebanese missionaries, High Representative of His Beatitude Mor Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, Cardinal-Patriarch of Antioch, Primate of the Maronite Church
Lebanon

Farhan Nizami
Director of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
UK

Metropolitan Gerasim (Sherashenidze)
The Special Envoy of the Patriarch-Catholicos Iliya II of All Georgia
Georgia

Serdar Chelebi
President of the European-Turkish Muslim Union
Turkey /
Germany

Bishop Volodymyr Kotsaba
Special Representative of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine
Ukraine

Aziz Hasanovich
The Grand Mufti of Croatia
Croatia

Shafik Pshikhachev
Special Representative of Caucasus Muslims` Board in Russia
Russia

Bishop Seraphim (Aliaksei Belanojka)
Representative of Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus
Belorussia

Rifat Fejzich
The Grand Mufti of Montenegro
Montenegro

Bunyamin Chil
Special Representative of Caucasus Muslims` Board in Turkey
Turkey
Speakers from Germany

Markus Grübel
Member of the German Parliament and Commissioner for Global Freedom of Religion

Hans-Eberhard Schleyer
Chair of German-Azerbaijani Forum, Former State Minister

Nikolas Löbel
Member of the German Parliament, CDU/CSU Rapporteur on Eastern Partnership

Mark C. Donfried
General Director of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

Otto Hauser
Honorary Consul of Azerbaijan in Stuttgart; Former German Government Spokesperson and State Secretary

Ravvin Yitzhak Ehrenberg
Orthodox Rabbi of Berlin, Jewish Community of Berlin

Aiman Mazyek
Chairman of the German Committee of Muslims

Klaus Rith
Head of Department of the Protestant Eparchy Stuttgart

Thomas Schirrmacher
Executive Chair of the World Evangelical Alliance WEA
Members of Azerbaijan Delegation

Sheikh-ul-islam Allahshukur Pashazade
Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board, Secretary General of Baku International Centre of Interfaith and Inter-Civilizational Cooperation (BCIC), Head of the Delegation

Mubariz Qurbanlı
Chairman of the State Committee for the Work with Religious Assosiations

Etibar Najafov
Head of Department of Interethnic Relations, Multiculturalism and Religious Issues of the President Administration

Salman Musayev
Mufti, the First deputy chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board

Aleksandr Ischein
Archibishop, Head of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church

Milikh Yevdayev
Head of the Mountain Jews Faith Community in Azerbaijan

Vladimir Fekete
Bishop, Head of the Christian Catholic Community in Azerbaijan

Khalaf Khalafov
Deputy Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
