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The World Political Forum

Preface

Andrei Grachev - Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the World Political Forum

Message from Margot Wallstrom - Vice President of the European Commission, in charge of Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy, Sweden

Davide Zoggia - President of the Province of Venice, Italy

Franca Bimbi - President of the Commission for European affairs of the Deputies Chamber, Italian Parliament

Mercedes Bresso - President of the Region of Piedmont, Italy

Mikhail S. Gorbachev - President of The World Political Forum, Russia

Laura Di Lucia Coletti - Councillor in charge of the Project "Ethical Province" at the Province of Venice, Italy

Giulietto Chiesa - Member of the European Parliament, Columnist for La Stampa, Italy

Gore Vidal - Writer and Essayst, United States of America

Shashi Tharoor - UN Under Secretary General for Communication and Public Information, India

Manuel Castells Olivàn - Professor of Communication and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America

Lamberto Maffei - Director of the Institute of Neurosciences at the CNR (National Research Center), Italy

Francisco Jarauta - Professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, Spain

Jean Reveillon - Secretary General of EBU (European Broadcasting Union), France

Eric Alterman - Professor of English at Brookling College of the City University of New York, Media Columnist for The Nation, United States of America

Ignacio Ramonet - Editor-in-Chief of Le Monde Dyplomatique, France

Saskia Sassen - Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, United States of America

Claudia Padovani - Researcher in International Relations at the University of Padova, Italy

Aleksei Simonov - President of the Glasnost Protection Foundation, Russia

Roberto Savio - Chair of IPS (International Press Service), Italy

Juan Luis Cebrián Echárri - Founder of El Pais and CEO of the Grupo Prisa, Spain

Franco Cardini - Professor of Medieval History at the University of Florence, Italy

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, United States of America

Paolo Gentiloni Silveri - Minister for Communication, Italy

Adam Michnik - Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland

Marie-Roger Biloa - President of the Groupe Africa International and of the Club Millenium, France

Ulysse Gosset - Journalist, France

Imad El Atrache - Aljazeera Brussels Bureau Chief, Libano

Bernard Guetta - Political Columnist and Editorial Writer of L’Express and Radio France Inter, France

John Loyd - Essayist, Editor of the Financial Times Magazine, United Kingdom

Indrajit Banerjee - Secretary-General of AIMC (Asian Media Information ad Communication Center), Singapore

Roberto Reale - Journalist and Professor of Theories and Technics of Television Information at the University of Padova, Italy

Ennio Remondino - Journalist RAI, Italy

Maurizio Torrealta - RAINEWS24, Italy

Henrikas Iouchkiavitchious - Former Deputy Director General of UNESCO in charge of Media, Lithuania

Johann P. Fritz - IPI (International Press Institute) Director, Austria

Anna Maria Longo - Journalist RADIORAI2, Italy

Daniel Schechter - Executive Producer MediaChannel, United States of America

Daniel Vernet - Editor-in-Chief Foreign Affairs Section of Le Monde, France

Andrea Distefano - Director of the monthly magazine Valori, Italy

Piero Bassetti - President of Globus et Locus, Italy

Fausto Colombo - Professor of Theories and Technics of Mass Communication at the Cattolica University of Milan, Italy

Serge Latouche - Sociologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Sud, France

Davide Zoggia - President of the Province of Venice