Distinguished Guests of the Reform Union Club
Mr Ian Campbell
Secretary of the Caledonian Club in London
Mr George Kenaan
Chief Executive Office of the Arab Bankers Association in London
Mr Bulat Nigmatulin
Former Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Mr Nebil Ilseven
President of Dogan Holding (Turkey) and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Robert College in Istanbul
Prof. Enrico Colombatto
Professor of Economics at the University of Turin; Director of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin; Director of Research at the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Fiscales (IREF) in Paris; Affiliated to the Geopolitical Information Service (GIS) in Liechtenstein
Mr Stefan Tzanev
Prominent Bulgarian writer and playwright
Prof. Kevin Dowd
Emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham; Senior Fellow at the Cobden Partners (London); Adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute; Member of the academic advisory council at the Institute of Economic Affairs; Programme Director of the Sofia Business School
Mr Vladimir Milov
Former Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation and President of the Institute of Energy Policy
Prof. Vanyo Mitev
Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions in Bulgaria and Rector of the Medical University in Sofia
Mr Alex Alexiev
Chairman of the Center for Balkan and Black Sea Studies in Sofia; He used to be Project Director and principal investigator of numerous Rand Corp. projects for U.S. government agencies (Dept. of Defense, US Army Intelligence, USAF intelligence, DIA, CIA etc.); He conducts national security research at the Hudson Institute with a focus on radical Islam
Prof. Peter Akos Bod
Director of the Institute of Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest; Former Minister of Industry and Trade and Former Governor of the Hungarian National Bank; Former Member of the Board at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (London)
Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz
Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics; Former Governor of the National Bank of Poland and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Maestro Carlos Saura
the world-renowned Spanish film director and photographer
Prof. Yoon Young-kwan
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of South Korea; Founder and former President of the Korean Institute for Future Strategies; Founding member and the first director of the Korea Peace Institute; Professor of International Political Economy at the Department of International Relations, Seoul National University
Prof. Hristo Pimpirev
Founder and Chairman of the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute and Head of annual research expeditions to Livingston Island (Western Antarctica)
Maestro Jiří Menzel
a world-renowned Czech film director, theatre director, actor and screenwriter; One of the most prominent representatives of the Czech New Wave
Mr Victor Erofeev
one of Russia’s most prominent dissident novelists, with his subversive work dating well back into the Soviet era
Mr Mikhail Krutikhin
Analyst and consultant on the oil and gas industry and politics in Russia; Co-founder of and analyst with the RusEnergy consultancy in Moscow; Editor-in-chief of the Russian Energy weekly newsletter
Maestro Plamen Kartalov
Director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet
Bishop Tikhon
Chairperson of the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Mr Frederik Roeder
Managing Director of Healthcare Solutions, with a focus on know-how transfer and policy advise from German healthcare to healthcare systems in transition, working with Central and Eastern Europe states, as well as with East Asian countries
H.E. Mr Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Bulgaria
Prof. Alexander Grozev
Professor of film theory and cinema studies; Founder and art director of the International Film Festival “Love is Madness”
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