Turkey as a regional player
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English language
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Prof. Dr. Shlomo AVINERI
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Recurrent Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest
| Graduate of the Hebrew University and the London School of Economics | |
| Visiting appointments at Yale, Cornell, the University of California, Oxford, the Australian National University, Cardozo School of Law in New York and Northwestern University | |
| Visiting scholar at the Wilson Center, the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (all in Washington, D.C.) as well as the Institute of World Economics and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow | |
| 1975-1977 | Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first government of Yitzhak Rabin |
| Head of the Israeli delegation to the UNESCO General Assembly | |
| 1979 | Member of the joint Egyptian-Israeli commission that drafted the Cultural and Scientific Agreement between the two countries |
| 1990-1992 | Member of international teams of observers, under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute, for the first post-communist elections in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Estonia and Croatia as well as other NDI missions to Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Albania and Georgia |
Dr. Aydin FINDIKCI
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
| 1987-1991 | Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Bremen |
| 1992-1997 | Dissertation an der Universität Bremen |
| 2000-2004 | Assis. Prof. an der Universität Kafkas in Kars/Türkei |
| seit 2005 | Dozent an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Gerald KNAUS
Chairman, ESI - European Stability Initiative, Istanbul
| Gerald Knaus is the founder of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), a Berlin-based think tank (www.esiweb.org) working on South-eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus and the future of European enlargement. He studied in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna. He taught economics at the State University of Chernivtsi in Ukraine and worked for five years in Bulgaria and Bosnia for NGOs and international organizations. He was director of the Lessons Learned Unit of the EU Pillar of the UN Mission in Kosovo (from 2001 to 2004). He co-authored more than 60 ESI reports as well as many scripts for TV documentaries on South East Europe (www.returntoeurope.eu). Gerald Knaus has been based in Istanbul since 2004. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and associate fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School where he also spent one year as a visiting fellow lecturing on state building and intervention. |
Dr. Ahmet Nuri YURDUSEV
Professor, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
| B.SC. and M.Sc. degrees Middle East Technical University | |
| PhD, University of Leicester, England | |
| Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, England | |
| Visiting Professor, Kansai University, Japan | |
| Current position: | |
| Professor of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara | |
| Advisory Board, Science Fellowships and Grant Programs Department, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) |
Dr. Albert ROHAN
Secretay-General ret., Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Vienna
| Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Wien und Graz | |
| 1960 | Promotion zum Doktor der Rechtswissenschaften |
| 1960-1961 | Versicherungsgesellschaft Le Monde, Paris |
| 1961-1962 | Europa Kolleg in Brügge, Belgien |
| 1963 | Eintritt in das Bundesministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten |
| 1963-1966 | Multilaterale Wirtschaftsabteilung |
| 1966-1968 | Botschaft Belgrad |
| 1968-1974 | Botschaft London (sukzessive Erster Sekretär, Botschaftsrat, Generalkonsul) |
| 1975-1976 | Multilaterale Wirtschaftsabteilung |
| 1977-1981 | Direktor im Kabinett des UNO Generalsekretärs, New York |
| 1982-1985 | Leiter der Abteilung II.5 (Internationale Organisationen) |
| 1985-1990 | Botschafter in Argentinien, Uruguay und Paraguay |
| 1990-1995 | Leiter der Abteilung II.3 (Zentral-, Ost- und Südosteuropa) |
| 1993-1995 | Stellvertretender Politischer Direktor |
| 1994-1995 | Nationaler Koordinator, Zentraleuropäische Initiative |
| 1996-2001 | Generalsekretär für auswärtige Angelegenheiten |
| 2005-2008 | Stv. Sonderbeauftragter des UNO Generalsekretärs für den künftigen Status Prozess für Kosovo |
| seit 2002 | Außenpolitischer Kommentator in Printmedien, Radio und Fernsehen |
| Vortragstätigkeit in Universitäten und politischen Institutionen in Europa und USA |
