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 |
| since 1998 | Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
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 |
| since 2009 | Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington. D.C. |
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 |
| since 2003 | Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy (a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States) |
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. |
