XI Global Baku Forum: "Fixing the Fractured World"
The flagship event of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, the 11th edition of the Global Baku Forum will be held on 14-16 March 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan with the title of ‘‘Fixing the Fractured World’’.
XI GBF is promising to bring over 400 participants including current and former heads of state and government, Nobel Laureates, international organizations, and civil society. As every year, NGIC is targeted to bring the wisdom and experience of its distinguished members and participants in an open and unconstrained debate to learn from the past, assess the present, and envision the future. In the 10 years of its existence, over 100 current and former heads of state and government, Nobel Laureates, and more than 4,000 other high-level representatives of governments, international organizations, and civil society have participated in the Forum in order to discuss how to overcome the world’s most pressing challenges.
The following topics will be discussed during the forum:
The New World Disorder
On War and Peace
Fixing Global Governance
The Value of Regional Political Institutions
Regional Perspectives: The future of the EU, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Africa
Sectoral Perspectives: Health, Education, Food and Agriculture, Water, Transportation and energy corridors
Our Relationships with the Environment: Climate Change and other environmental challenges:
The Economic and Financial System
New Social Realities
On Science and the New Technologies
Listening to Youth
Speakers
Bajram Begaj
President of the Republic of Albania
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Co-Chair, NGIC; President of Latvia 1999-2007 Honorary Chairperson, COP29 International Advisory Committee
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization
Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director, UNAIDS; Under-Secretary-General UN
Zeljka Cvijanovic
Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hakan Fidan
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye
Miguel Angel Moratinos
High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations; Under-Secretary General of the United Nations
Ismail Serageldin
Co-Chair, NGIC; Vice President of World Bank 1992-2000
Achim Steiner
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank 2003-2011; Governor of the Bank of France 1993-2003
Wolfgang Ischinger
President of the Foundation Council, Munich Security Conference
Najat Mokhtar
Deputy Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency; Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Tzipi Livni
Vice Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel 2006-2009; Minister of Justice of Israel 2013-2014
Borut Pahor
President of Slovenia 2012-2022
Jean Baderschneider
Board of Directors, Fortescue Metals & Fortescue Industries; Chair of the Board, The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; former Vice-President, ExxonMobil
Maria Fernanda Espinosa
President of the 73rd Session of the UNGA; Co-Chair, COP29 International Advisory Committee
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
President of Croatia 2015-2020
Chau Chak Wing
Co-Chair of the Global Circle, NGIC
Dalia Grybauskaitė
President of Lithuania 2009-2019
Amre Moussa
Secretary-General, Arab League 2001-2011; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt 1991-2001
Boris Tadic
President of Serbia 2004-2012
Ivo Josipovic
President of Croatia 2010-2015
Kerry Kennedy
President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Filip Vujanovic
President of Montenegro 2003-2018
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
President of Mauritius 2015-2018
Joyce Banda
President of Malawi 2012-2014
Raimonds Vejonis
President of Latvia 2015-2019
Wu Hongbo
Special Representative of the Chinese Government for European Affairs
Aichatou Mindaoudou
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger 1999-2000
Rosen Plevneliev
President of Bulgaria 2012-2017
Csaba Korosi
President of the 77th Session of the UNGA
Volkan Bozkir
President of the 75th Session of the UNGA
Vuk Jeremic
President of the 67th Session of the UNGA
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
President of the 66th Session of the UNGA
Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa
President of the 61st Session of the UNGA
Jan Kavan
President of the 57th Session of the UNGA
Valdis Zatlers
President of Latvia 2007-2011
Fatou Haidara
Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director, Directorate of Global Partnership and External Relations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Yves Leterme
Prime Minister of Belgium 2008; 2009-2001
Egils Levits
President of Latvia 2019-2023
Laimdota Straujuma
Prime Minister of Latvia 2014-2016
Zlatko Lagumdzija
Permanent Representative of Bosnia & Herzegovina to the UN; Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2002
Bernardo Mariano
Chief Information Technology Officer, Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Information and Communications Technology at UN Headquarters
Katalin Bogyay
President of 36th Session of UNESCO General Conference, Founder, Women4Diplomacy; President UN Association of Hungary
Joseph Muscat
Prime Minister of Malta 2013-2020
Petar Stoyanov
President of Bulgaria 1997-2002
Olusegun Obasanjo
President of Nigeria 1999-2007
Jan Fischer
Prime Minister of Czech Republic 2009-2010
Gjorge Ivanov
President of the Republic of North Macedonia 2009-2019
Binali Yildirim
Prime Minister of Türkiye 2016-2018; Speker of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye 2018-2019
Micheline Calmy-Rey
President of Switzerland 2007, 2011
Emil Constantinescu
President of Romania 1996-2000
Giorgi Margvelashvili
President of Georgia 2013-2018
Maimunah Mohd Sharif
Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme 2018-2024
Hafez Ghanem
Regional Vice President of World Bank for Eastern and Southern Africa 2020-2022
Susan Ness
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission 1994-2001
Mladen Ivanic
Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014-2018
Milica Pejanovic-Durisic
Minister of Defense of Montenegro 2012-2016
Eka Tkeshelashvili
Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012
Mirko Cvetkovic
Prime Minister of Serbia 2008-2012
David Qinzhong Pan
Executive Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Hakima El Haite
President of the Liberal International; Special Envoy for Climate Change of the Kingdom of Morocco 2015-2017
Jan Kubis
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia 2006-2009
Antonio Zanardi Landi
Former Diplomatic Adviser to the Italian President; Ambassador of the Military Order of Malta to Vatican
Rashid Alimov
Secretary-General, SCO 2016-2018, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan 1992-1994
David Chikvaidze
Vice President of the Swiss Forum for International Affairs
Moushira Khattab
Executive President, Kemet Boutros Ghali Foundation for Peace and Knowledge
Andris Piebalgs
European Comissioner for Development 2010-2014, European Comissioner for Energy 2004-2010
Hikmet Cetin
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye 1991-1994
Susan Elliott
President & CEO, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Walter Fust
Director-General Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation 1993-2008
Ismahane Elouafi
Executive Managing Director of CGIAR; former Chief Scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Dennis Francis
President of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly
Guy Ryder
Under-Secretary-General for Policy at the United Nations
Alexandra Papadopoulou
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Hellenic Republic
Nurimbetov Rakhmatulla
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Michal Kaminski
Deputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland
Roch Wamytan
President of the Congress of New Caledonia
Ugochi Daniels
Deputy Director General, International Organization for Migration
Francesco La Camera
Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency
Tomas Lamanauskas
Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union
Ruvendrini Menikdiwela
Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Sir Alok Sharma
Member of the Parliament of the UK; President of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference
Ouided Bouchamaoui
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2015
Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2014
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006
Andris Berzins
President of Latvia 2011-2015
Dumitru Braghis
Prime Minister of Moldova 1999-2001
Julio Cobos
Vice President of Argentina 2007-2011
Milo Dukanovic
President of Montenegro 2018-2023; 1998-2002
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
President of Mongolia 2005-2009
Chiril Gaburici
Prime Minister of Moldova 2015
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
President of Iceland 1996-2016; Chairman of the Arctic Circle
Moussa Mara
Prime Minister of Mali 2014-2015
Stjepan Mesic
President of Croatia 2000-2010
Ilir Meta
President of Albania 2017-2022
Festus Mogae
President of Botswana 1998-2008; Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change
Djoomart Otorbaev
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan 2014-2015
Petre Roman
Prime Minister of Romania 1989-1991
Abdur-Rauf salem Rawabdeh
Prime Minister of Jordan 1999-2000, President of the Senate 2013-2015
Rosalia Arteaga Serrano
President of Ecuador 1997; Former Secretary-General of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization
Jewel Howard Taylor
Vice President of Liberia 2018-2024
Nathalie Goulet
Member of the Senate of France