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Speakers at the 2011 Israeli Presidential Conference
As in previous conferences, the invitation list for this year’s event includes world leaders, intellectuals, scientists, artists and spiritual leaders, entrepreneurs and economists. The President of the State of Israel, H.E Shimon Peres, will speak at the Conference along with a cast of prominent personalities and eminent experts bringing immeasurable quality and depth to this forum.
This year, some of the distinguished guests who have already approved their participation include (in alphabetical order by last name):
- Mr. Elliot Abrams, Senior Fellow at the US Council on Foreign Relations;
- Mr. Leo Apotheker, CEO of Hewlett-Packard; former Co-CEO of SAP;
- Professor Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and behavioral economics and founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight;
- Mr. Jacques Attali, Head of the Commission for French Economic Growth;
- H.E Mr. Anthony Blair, the Quartet Special Envoy to the Middle East; Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom;
- Mr. Ronald Cohen, Chairman of the Portland Trust;
- Mr. Anthony Cordsman, Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and national security analyst;
- Professor Irwin Cotler, Member of the Canadian Parliament and Former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada;
- Professor Niall Ferguson; professor for Economic History;
- Professor Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel;
- Lord Peter Goldsmith PC QC, Former Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland; Head of European Litigation, London office of US law firm Debevoise & Plimpton;
- Ambassador Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution;
- Ms. Abby Joseph-Cohen, Senior U.S. Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs;
- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State;
- Professor Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry;
- Ms. Christine Lagarde, French Minister of Economy, Finance & Employment;
- Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Neuroscience and Psychology, New York University; Recipient of International Prize of the Fyssen Foundation (2005);
- Mr. Maurice Levy, Chief Executive Officer of Publicis;
- Mr. Bernard-Henri Lévy, Frenchpublic intellectual, philosopher and journalist;
- Mr. Peter Löscher, President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG;
- Professor Edward Luttwak, MilitaryStrategist and Historian
- Professor Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences;
- Professor Dominique Moisi, Founder and Senior Advisor, the French Institute for International Relations;
- Mr. Rene Obermann, Germany, CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG; Vice President of the German industry association BITKOM;
- Mr. Tom Rogers, CEO, TiVo Inc.; Former Chairman and CEO of PRIMEDIA Inc.; Former President of NBC Universal Cable and Executive Vice President of NBC
- Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi, United Kingdom and Commonwealth (1991- present); Visiting Professor of Theology, Kings College; Former Principle of Jews' College;
- Ms. Sarah Silverman, Stand-up comedian, television and film actor;
- Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the WPP Group;
- Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank;
- Mr. Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia;
- Mr. Leon Wieseltier, Literary editor of The New Republic;
- Mr. James Wolfensohn, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, L.L.C; Former President of the World Bank;
We look forward to a dynamic and fruitful event and hope that you will be able to participate.
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