20th anniversary conference: list of speakers

BEREZKINA Maimu Web Advisor, Norwegian Directorate of eHealth, Oslo

BLOM Elma Professor of Language Development and Multilingualism, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

BOILLAT Philippe Conference Rapporteur

BOŠNJAK Ivan Secretary of State, Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia

BRANDS-KEHRIS Ilze Member of the UN Human Rights Committee in respect of Latvia; Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden

CAVALLI Marisa Independent researcher on language policy, Aoste, Italy

CRNIĆ-GROTIĆ Vesna Chair of Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

DOŁOWY-RYBIŃSKA Nicole Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

DRALO Artemis Deputy Minister, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania

GHEORGHIŢĂ Monica Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

GJOKAJ Leon Deputy Minister, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights of Montenegro

HAF JONES Elin University of Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

HOFMANN Rainer Frankfurt University, Germany

IZSÁK-NDIAYE Rita Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

JAGLAND Thorbjørn Secretary General of the Council of Europe

KAZAKEVICH Olga Director of the Laboratory for Computational Lexicography, Research Computing Centre, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation

KOCHARYAN Vigen Deputy Minister of Justice of Armenia

LAINIO Jarmo Professor of Finnish, Department of Slavic and Baltic languages, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University, Sweden

MALLOY Tove H. Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues

PAPA Miroslav Chair of the Ministers’ Deputies, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the Council of Europe

PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ Marija Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia, Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

RASOM Sabrina Vice-Chair, Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity

SAMARDŽIĆ-MARKOVIĆ Snežana Director General of Democracy, Council of Europe

SISKO Jan Department for Minority Schooling, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Austria

SKERK Josefina Member of the Swedish Sami Parliament and Legal Advisor at Civil Rights Defenders, Saepmie, Sweden

SUAY I LERMA Ferran President, European Language Equality Network

SZIJJÁRTÓ Péter Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary

THOMAS Claire Acting Executive Director, Minority Rights Group International

VINCZE Loránt President, Federal Union of European Nationalities

ZANNIER Lamberto OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

ZIOBIENE Edita Interim Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

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Secretariat of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

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