GLOBAL PANEL - Prague Society Event

July 16th, 2003 - washington

THE PEOPLE TO MEET

Panelists/participants include:

The Czech Republic

Hon. Dr. Vladimír Špidla > Prime Minister

Hon. Cyril Svoboda > Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Hon. Ing. Miroslav Kostelka > Minister of Defense

Hon. Ing. Milan Urban > Minister of Industry and Trade

H.E. Dr. Martin Palouš > Czech Ambassador to the US in Washington

Ing. Pavel Bratinka > Cabinet Minister and Deputy Foreign Minister, Czech Republic (ret.), Vice-President, The Prague Society

Hon. Jirí Dienstbier > Chairman, Czech Council on Foreign Relations; former Foreign Minister; Special Rapporteur, UN Human Rights Commission (Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia and Yugoslavia)

Hon. Jan Kasl > Chairman, European Democratic Party of the Czech Republic; former Lord Mayor of Prague

Ing. Jindrich Tomáš, MSc > Senior Advisor to the Speaker of Parliament; Former Deputy Defense Minister, Czech Republic

The United Kingdom

Baroness Caroline Cox > Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, UK

John Marks, OBE, PhD > Director, Educational Research Trust, UK

United States of America

Dr. William Bader > former Assistant Secretary of State

Professor William M. Banks > Syracuse University, College of Law; Special Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee

Dr. Yossef Bodansky > Research Director, International Strategic Studies Association

Stuart E. Eizenstat > Partner, Covington and Burling; former Deputy Treasury Secretary; former Under Secretary of State and Commerce; former U.S. Representative to the European Union

Marc S. Ellenbogen > Chairman, Global Panel; Senior Associate, Maxwell School, Syracuse University; Associate Fellow & Professor, IIAS, Canada

Mr. William Harter > Founder & first President, American Chamber of Commerce of Czechoslovakia; Vice-President, Procter & Gamble, Europe (ret.)

Mr. Philip M. Kasik > President of the American Friends of the Czech Republic

Ambassador Thomas Pickering > Senior Vice President, International Relations, Boeing; former Under Secretary of State; former Ambassador to Russia and the United Nations

Mr. Herman Pirchner > President, American Foreign Policy Council

Mr. Ash Rajan > Senior Vice-President, Global Equities, Prudential, New York

Dr. William Schneider > Chairman of the Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board; former Under Secretary of State

Ambassador Craig Stapleton > US Ambassador to the Czech Republic

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) > Vice Chair, House Armed Services Committee, former Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee

Rep. Roger Wicker (R-MS) > Deputy Majority Whip; Member of the Appropriations Committee