Previous Speakers: Government Officials

Government Officials
Name
Title
Country

John Abbott
Director of Education
United Kingdom

Marc Tucker
President, National Center for Education & the Economy
New York

Eduard D. Dneprov
Advisor for Education Policy & Humanitarian AffairsCabinet of President Yeltsin, Russian Federation
Moscow

Victor A Gaisyonok
Minister of Education and Professor
Republic of Belarus

Paul-Eerik Rummo
Minister of Culture and Education
Estonia

Naima Balic
Senior Advisor and First Deputy, Ministry of Culture and Education
Croatia

Gudmund Hernes
Minister of Education
Norway

Per Unckel
Minister of Education and Science
Sweden

Josquim Azevedo
Undersecretary of State for Basic and Secondary Education
Portugal

Armand V. Fabella
Secretary of Department of Education, Culture and Sports
Republic of the Phillipines

Burchell Whiteman
Minister of Education and Culture
Jamaica, West Indies

Naasson Loutete-Dangui
Minister of Education
Republic of the Congo

Gennet Zewide
Minister of Education
Ethiopia

Miguel Jose Sole
Secretary of Technical and Operative Coordination, Ministry of Culture and Education
Argentina

Barbara A. Perea-Casey
State Representative
New Mexico

Edmund King
Emeritus Professor of Education in the University of London and Editor of Comparative Education
London

Stuart Maclure
Author, visiting scholar and former Editor of the Times Education Supplement
London

J. J. Tomiak
Professor, University of London
London, England

Olich Botlik
Educational Consultant to the Minister of Education of the Czech Republic
Prague

D.I.G. Karimanzira
Member of Parliament and the Minister for Higher Education
Zimbabwe

M.U.K. Mlambala
Member of Parliament and Minister of Education and Culture
Malawi

Gilberto Rivera-Orti
Senator and Majority Leader and Former Chairman of the Education Committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Jibril Aminu
Minister of Education
Nigeria
Jim Dinning
Minister of Education
Canada

Booth Gardner
Governor, State of Washington
Washington

Yitzhak Navon
Minister of Education, Former President of Israel
Israel

Wallace G Wilkinson
Governor, State of Kentucky
Kentucky

Deryck M.A. Bernard
Minister of Education
Guyana

Maqo Lakrori
Minister of National Education
Albania

Norbert Lammert
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Minister of Education
Germany
Joe E. Lutjeharms
Commissioner, Nebraska, Department of Education
Nebraska
Matey Mateev
Minister of Public Education
Bulgaria
Robert Mitton
Deputy Minister of Education
Ontario, Canada
Gheorhe Stefan
Minister of Education and Science
Rumania
Earle W.H. Wood
Deputy Minister of Education
New Brunswick, Canada
Naima Balic
Senior Advisor and First Deputy of Culture and Education
Croatia
Ole Briseid
Assistant Director General for Norway, Upper Secondary Education
Norway
Charles D. Cook
Senator, State of New York
New York
Jerry Covey
Commissioner of Education
Alaska
Mutiu Fagbayi
National Center on Education and the Economy
New York
Celia Hensman
Project Manager, Central and Eastern Europe, The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum
United Kingdom
Stephen Heyneman
The World Bank
Washington, DC
James Johnson
Director of Governmental Relationa, Apple Computer, Inc.
Washington, DC
Elena Lubnina
Deputy Head, International Dept., Ministry of Education
Russian Federation
Sona Lucht
Senator, State of West Virgina
West Virginia
Richard Margrave
Head of Press and Public Relations, United Kingdom Association of Teachers and Lecturers
United Kingdom
Pieter Marias
Minister of Education
South Africa
Ivan Philip
First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education
Czech Republic
Antonio Fernando Couto dos Santos
Minister of Education
Portugal
Sandor Toth
Chef de Cabinet of the Ministry of Culture and Education
Hungary
Vera Boltho
Head of Division for Higher Education and Research, Council of Europe
France
Vladislavas Domarkas
Minister of Education and Science
Lithuania
Pamela Ferguson
President, Grinell College
Iowa
Alfayo S. Hambayi
Minister of Education
Zambia
Mia Amor Moitley
Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture
Barbados
Chabani Manganyi
Director General of Education
South Africa
Agoslav Mladevovio
Professor and Minister of Education, Minister of Education of the Republic of Serbia
Yugoslavia
Eva Slavkovska
Minister of Education
Slovak Republic
Ane Sonko
Minister of Education
Senegal
Froilan C. Tenorio
Governor, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Saipan
Inge Thygesen
Permanent Under-Secretary of State
Denmark
H.E. Abdul Aziz Abdullah
Minister of Education
Qatar
Janis Vaivads
Minister of Education
Latvia
Michael Z. Zgurovsky
Minister of Education of Ukraine
Ukraine
Hammad Al-Ghafri
Undersecretary, Minister of Education
Sultanate of Oman
Hon. Nahas Angula
Minister of Higher Education
Namibia
Gaositwe Chiepe
Minister of Education
Botswana
G.M. Machinga
Minister of Education, Sport and Culture
Zimbabwe
Senator Richard Marable
State Senator
Georgia
Vasil Qano
Chief of Minister's Cabinet
Albania
ASHK Sadique
Minister of Education
Bangladesh
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
Minister of Education
Ghana