Speaker: Professor A.J.R. Groom, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury who was the Founder and Chairman, European Stanidng Group for International Relations, Chairman of BISA and Vice-President of ISA; a member of the Executive Commitee of the European Consortium for Political Research and a board member of the Academic Council foro the United Nations System.  He is currently Executive Secretary of the World International Studies Committee and the Academic Director, European Summer University

Chair: Shri C.R. Gharekhan, formerly India's Permanent Representative to the UN