Steering Committee:

• Piero Bassetti (Italy), Chairman Globus et Locus
• Giorgio Giacomelli (Italy), Italian Ambassador, former UN Under-Secretary-General, Chairman of Hydroaid
• Gian Giacomo Migone (Italy), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Italian Senate 1994-2001; Professor of History of North America, Università di Torino
• Paolo Pombeni (Italy), Professor of Comparative History of European Political Systems, Università di Bologna
• Alberto Roversi Monaco (Italy), Chairman, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna
• Onorato Castellino (Italy), Chairman Compagnia di San Paolo

Participants:

• Hans Blix (Sweden), Former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq
• Tim Cartwright (Canada), Director, United Nations Staff College, Turin
• Mario Deaglio (Italy), Professor of International Economics, Università di Torino
• Annamaria Gentili (Italy), Professor of Democracy and Development in Sub Saharian Countries, Università di Bologna
• Riffat Hassan (Pakistan), Professor of Religious Studies and Humanities, University of Lousville
• Craig Kennedy (USA), President of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington
• Charles Maier (USA), Professor of History, Harvard University
• David Marquand (UK), Principal of Mansfield College, Professor in Social Democratic Thought and Practice, Oxford University
• William Nash (USA), General, Director Centre for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington
• Vladimir Petrovsky (Russia), Ambassador, Chairman Dialogue among Civilizations, Geneva
• Fiorello Provera (Italy), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Italian Senate, Rome
• Pierre Rosanvallon (France), Professor d'Histoire moderne et contemporaine du politiquAe au College de France, Director Centre de Recherques Politiques Raymond-Aron, Directeur d'études à l’Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• Amartya Sen (India), Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, Lamont University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• Rehman Sobhan (Bangladesh), Chairman Institute Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka
• Bjorn Stigson (Sweden), President World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva
• Francois Tremeaud (France), Executive Director of ILO, Director ITCILO, Turin