Events
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Over the last few decades the Diplomatic Academy has developed into one of the most important event centres in Vienna. Lectures, conferences and discussions on current topics and developments in the fields of politics, international relations, economics and culture take place on a regular basis at the DA.
Lecturers (selection)
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut
Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Johannes Hahn
European Commissioner for Regional Policy
Lakhdar Brahimi
Former Algerian Foreign Minister
Claudia Fenz
Richterin, Extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia/ECCC
Valentin Inzko
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Celso Amorim
Minister of External Relations of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Jean-Emmanuel Pondi
Coordinator of the High Panel of Experts for Darfour
Miroslav Lajčák
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Elisabeth Rehn
Minister of State, Chair of the Board of Trust Fund for Victims, International Criminal Court
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
Hervé Ludovic de Lys
Director of the West Africa regional office of the United Nations Office
Abidin Rasheed Zainul
Senior Minister of State, Singapure
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Jean Asselborn
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg
Benita Ferrero-Waldner
Former European Commissioner
Richard Kühnel
Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Austria
Erhard Busek
Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe
Jean-Pierre Jouyet
Former Under Secretary of State for European Affairs
Karel Schwarzenberg
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Željko Komšić
Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maurice F. Strong
Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Sir Adam Roberts KCMG FBA
Senior Research Fellow, Oxford; President of the British Academy
Ali Babacan
Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Danilo Türk
President of the Republic of Slovenia
Gwyn Prins
Director, Mackinder Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science
Patrus Ananias
Minister of Social Development and Fight against Hunger of the Republic of Brazil