The power of resources
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English language
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Paul COLLIER
Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
| 1998-2003 | Director of the Development Research group at the World Bank |
| 2005 | Senior adviser to Blair s Commission on Africa, addressed the General Assembly of the UN, given a seminar at 10 Downing St. |
| Professor Associate of CERDI, Université d'Auvergne; Fellow of the CEPR, London |
Virginia GAMBA
Head, International Peace and Cooperation Program, Safer Africa, Pretoria
| Born in 1954 | |
| Philology Bachelor of the University of Salamanca, Spain | |
| BA (Hons) in Spanish and Latin American Studies of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK | |
| MSc (econ) in Strategic Studies of the University of Wales at Aberystwyth | |
| 1981 | Researcher on Latin American Security Issues for the University of Piura |
| Researcher into the dynamics of the Falklands/Malvinas war of 1982 | |
| 1984-1986 | Director of the Centre for Military Transformation of the Argentine Republic |
| 1986 | Visiting Lecturer and Associate Professor of the University of Maryland in the Department of Public Affairs on issues of Latin American Security Policy |
| 1987-1990 | Lecturer and associate professor at the Department of War Studies, King s College London |
| 1990-1992 | Director of the Programme for Arms Control, Disarmament and Demobilization of the Peace and Security Programme at the MacArthur Foundation of Chicago |
| 1994-1996 | Programme Director for the Conflict Resolution and Disarmament Project of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research |
| 1996-2000 | Deputy Director of the Institute for Security Studies of South Africa |
| since 2001 | Director of Safer Africa |
Karel KOVANDA
Deputy Director General for External Relations, European Commission, Brussels
| Following the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mr Kovanda spent 20 years in exile, mostly in the US. | |
| 1991 | return after the "velvet revolution" and joined the Foreign Service in |
| 1993-1997 | First Czech Ambassador to the United Nations after Czechoslovakia's peaceful division. |
| 1994-1995 | Term on the UN Security Council |
| 1996-1997 | Leadership of the ECOSOC |
| 1998-2005 | First Czech Ambassador to NATO |
| 2005 | he won a competition for his current position in the European Commission. |
DI Dr. MBA (IMD) Alfred VOGEL
Generalsekretär, ÖAW-Kommission für die wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit Dienststellen des BMLV, Wien
| Universitätsassistent / TU Wien und Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Lausanne, Schweiz | |
| MBA-Studium am International Management Development Institute (IMD), Lausanne, Schweiz | |
| Berufliche Tätigkeiten im BMLV, in der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, in der Industrie, und in der WKÖ |
