THEY ATTENDED THE MEDAYS – POLITICS

AND ALSO…

  • LAURENT LAMOTHE, Former Prime Minister of Haiti (2016)*
  • MOUSSA MARA, Prime Minister of Mali (2015, 2016)
  • PAULO PORTAS, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal (2016)
  • SAMIRA RAJAB, Special Envoy of the King of Bahrain (2016)
  • BRIAN COWEN, Former Prime Minister of Ireland (2015)
  • JEAN-DAVID LEVITTE, Former Sherpa of President Sarkozy and President Chirac (2015)
  • BIAO MA, Vice-President of the Consultative National Committee of the Chinese National Assembly (2015)
  • RAILA ODINGA, Former Prime Minister of Kenya (2015)
  • MOHAMMED IBN CHAMBAS, Special Envoy of the UN to West Africa (2015)
  • MOHAMED BAZOUM, Former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Niger, then in office (2014 and 2015)
  • JEAN-LOUIS BORLOO, Former State Minister of France (2014)
  • ABDOULAYE DAOUDA DIALLO, Ministre de l’Intérieur et de la Sécurité Publique de la République du Sénégal (2014)
  • SAEB ERAKAT, Chief Negotiator of Palestine (2014)
  • MEHDI JOMAA,Former Head of the Tunisian Government, then in office (2014)
  • BERNARD KOUCHNER, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France (2014)
  • CARLOS LOPEZ, General Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA (2014)
  • MANKEUR NDIAYE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal (2014)
  • EDOUARD PHILIPPE, French Prime Minister, then Mayor of Le Havre (2014)
  • RICHARD SEZIBERA, General Secretary of the East African Community (2014 and 2015)
  • STJEPAN MESIC, Former President of Croatia (2013)
  • CYRIL SVOBODA, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (2013 and 2015)
  • BERTIE AHERN, Former Prime Minister of Ireland (2013)
  • RYAD AL-MALIKI, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de la Palestine (2013)
  • MAHMOUD GEBRIL, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Palestine (2013)
  • YVES LETERME, General Secretary of international IDEA, former Belgian Prime Minister (2013, 2014)
  • JINHUA ZHONG, Special Representative of China for African Affairs (2012 and 2014)
  • FAWZIA KOUFI, Vice-President of the Afghan National Assembly (2012)
  • ERNESTO SAMPER, Former President of Colombia (2012)
  • YASAR YAKIS, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Co-founder of the AKP (2012, 2014 and 2015)
  • JEAN-PAUL ADAM, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Seychelles, then in office (2011)
  • BERNARDINO LEÓN GROSS, EU Special Representative for the Mediterranean (2013, 2012 and 2011)
  • ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, Prime Minister of the Dominican Republic (2011)
  • MARTIN ZIGUELE, Former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, candidate for the 2015 presidential elections (2011 – 2013)
  • JAN FISHER, Vice-President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2011)
  • CHEICK MODIBO DIARRA, Vice-President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2011)
  • ANDRÉS PASTRANA ARANGO, Former President of Colombia (2011)
  • PETER ANYANG NYING’O, Former Minister of Health of Kenya, then in office (2011 and 2012)
  • ABDULLAH ABDULLAH, Head of the Afghan Government, then Leader of the Opposition and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (2010)
  • CHEICK SIDI DIARRA, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, then in office (2010-2012)
  • ANGELINO GARZON, Vice-President of Colombia (2010)
  • VUK JEMERIC, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia (2010)
  • ELIOT OHIN, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Togo (2010)
  • MARC OTTE, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process (2010)
  • RÓDI KRÁTSA-TSAGAROPOÚLOU, Vice-President of the European Parliament (2009, 2010, 2012)
  • MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, Former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, then in office (2008, 2009 and 2011)
  • MIGUEL ANGEL MORATINOS, Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, then in office (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013)



    • *(Ex. 2010): year of participation in the MEDays.