Professor Kemal Alemdaroglu, Rector of the Istanbul University; Professor of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey

Professor Mariano L. Bianca, Dean of the Department of History, Social and Philosophical Studies, University of Siena; Arezzo, Italy

Mr. Andrzej Bielecki, Member of the Bologna Process Committee of ESIB, ESIB-the National Unions of Students in Europe, Brussels, Belgium

Ms.Tatyana Bogdasarova, Senior Coordinator of Education Programme, The Eurasia Foundation, Moscow, Russian Federation

Professor Christian Byk, Président, l’Association Internationale Droit, Ethique et Science [President, International Association for Law, Ethics and Science]; Membre de l’Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres - Academia Europensis [Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - Academia Europensis]; Paris, France

Rd. Fr. Professor Roberto Colombo, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Member of the Delegation of the Holy See at the Conference; Milan, Italy

Professor Ksenija Culo, Representative of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, University of Osijek; Osjiek, Croatia

Professor Radu Damian, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education, and Research; and the Dean of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Technical Engineering; Bucharest, Romania.

Mr. Bruno de Padirac, Senior Programme Specialist, Division of Science Analysis and Policies, UNESCO; Paris, France

Professor John Finney, Honorary Vice-President of Euroscience, University College London; London, United Kingdom

Professor Gvozden Flego, Professor of Philosophy, University of Zagreb; former Minister of Education and Research; Zagreb, Croatia

Dr. Jens-Peter Gaul, Director for Strategic Planning, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG (German Research Foundation); Bonn - Bad Godesberg, Germany

Professor Haim Goren, Professor of Geography, Tel-Hai Academic College; Member of the Committee for Planning and Budgeting by the Council for Higher Education; Jerusalem, Israel

Professor Eric Gould, Professor, Department of English, University of Denver; Denver, Col., USA

Professor Brenda M. Gourley, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University; Milton Keyes, United Kingdom

Professor Eduardo Marçal Grilo, Principal Administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Member of the Board of the Observatory for Fundamental University Values and Rights - The Magna Charta Observatory; former Minister of Education; Lisbon, Portugal

Ms. Julia Hasler, Program Specialist, Life Sciences Section, Division of Basic and Engineering Sciences, UNESCO; Paris, France

Professor Abdelwahab Hiba Hechiche, Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida; Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - Academia Europensis; Tampa FL, USA

Mr. Bernard Hugonnier, Deputy Director for Education, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Paris, France

Professor Klaus Hüfner, Chairperson of the Advisory Board of UNESCO-CEPES; former President of the German Commission for UNESCO; Berlin, Germany

Professor Ioan Ianoş, Director General of Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Research; Bucharest, Romania

Dr. Helene Kamensky, Director, Russian Higher Education Programs at the Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria

Professor Jürgen Kohler, Professor of Law, Greifswald University; former Rector of the Greifswald University; Greifswald, Germany

Professor Andrzej Koźmiński, Rector of Leon Koźmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (LKAEM); Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Board of UNESCO-CEPES; Warsaw, Poland

Professor Mircea Malitza, President of the Black Sea University Foundation; Member of the Romanian Academy; Bucharest, Romania

Mr. Roger Manière, Représentant de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) [Representative of the University Agency of the French Speaking Countries (AUF)]; Directeur du Bureau Europe centrale et orientale de l’AUF [Director of the Bureau for Central and Eastern Europe of AUF]; Bucharest, Romania

Professor Andrei Marga, Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and the President of the Academic Council of the Babeş-Bolyai University; Member of the Council of the United Nations University in Tokyo; Member of the Board of the European University Association - EUA, Member of the Advisory Board of UNESCO-CEPES; former Minister of Education; Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Professor Federico Mayor, President of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace; former Director-General of UNESCO (1987-1999); Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - Academia Europensis; Madrid, Spain

Dr. Dagmar M. Meyer, Chair of the Administrative Board of the Marie Curie Fellowship Association; Göttingen, Germany

Professor Adrian Miroiu, Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, National School for Political and Administrative Sciences; Bucharest, Romania

Professor László Molnár, Associate Professor of Environmental and Engineering Ethics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Mr. Howard Moore, Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Europe - ROSTE; Venice, Italy

H.E. Msgr. Jean-Claude Périsset, Apostolic Nuncio to Romania, and Head of the Delegation of the Holy See at the Conference; Bucharest, Romania

Dr. Tatiana Pogorielova, Head of Foreign Language Department, National Academy of Management; Kiev, Ukraine

Mr. Péter Puskás, Member of the Executive Committee, ESIB - the National Unions of Students in Europe; Budapest, Hungary

Professor Henryk Ratajczak, Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN); Vice-President of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - Academia Europensis; Paris, France

Professor Peter Scott, Vice-Chancellor of the Kingston University; former Editor-in-Chief of “The Times Higher Education Supplement”; Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom (Rapporteur of the Conference)

Professor Ullica Segerstråle, Professor of Sociology, Chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., USA; Member of the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters; Helsinki, Finland

Professor Sergiy Sydorenko, Vice-Rector of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute”; Kiev, Ukraine

Professor Andrzej Szostek, Professor of Ethics and Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin; former Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin; Lublin, Poland

Professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Rector of the University of Mining and Metallurgy - AGH; Crakow, Poland

Dr. David Ward, President of the American Council on Education (ACE); Washington DC, USA

Professor Jerzy Woźnicki, Director of the Institute of Knowledge Society; Honorary President of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (KRASP); former Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology; Warsaw, Poland

Professor Franciszek Ziejka, Rector of the Jagiellonian University; President of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (KRASP); Crakow, Poland

Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director

Professor Lazăr Vlăsceanu, Programme Specialist

Dr. Daniel Lincoln, Editor/Programme Specialist

Mr. Peter Wells, Programme Specialist

Dr. Laura Grünberg, Programme Assistant