Dallemagne George
Parliament:
Belgian House of Representatives
Political Party:
Centre Démocrate Humaniste Georges Dallemagne has spent much of his life working for humanitarian aid and public health programmes for the European Commission (in Rwanda, Balkans, Angola) and intervening in crisis situations in far-flung areas of the world hit by war, earthquakes and emergency refugee situations. As director of Handicap International, he lobbied to get the EU to agree to ban anti-personnel mines, leading to the signing of a global agreement, the Ottawa or Mine-Ban Treaty in 1997.
In politics for the past 10 years, Mr. Dallemagne has been a Senator and deputy mayor of Brussels City. Now a member of the Chamber / House of Representatives, he is vice-chair of the Foreign Affairs committee.
Dr. Rola Dashti MP
Parliament:
Kuwaiti Parliament
Political Party:
Independent Dr. Rola Dashti, a winner of a Global Citizens award for 2009, and King Hussein Humanitarian award for year 2005, listed among the top 20 businesswomen in the Arab World by Financial Times and among the world’s 100 most powerful Arabs in 2007 and 2008 by Arabian Business, and is a member of the advisory council for Arab Human Development Report for 2009 (Human Security in the Arab World). More recently, in March 2011 Dr. Dashti was named one of the 150 Women Who Shake the World by NEWSWEEK magazine.
Dr. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree allowing Kuwaiti women to vote and run for parliamentary elections for the first time. She was the first woman to file her papers at the election department, when the registration opened, and she herself was a candidate in the 2006 parliamentary election. In the 2009 parliamentary elections she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament setting the stage to deepening the role of women in politics and decision making.
Mr. Herman De Croo MP
Parliament:
Belgian Parliament
Political Party:
Flemish Liberal Party Mr. De Croo was first elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1968 for the PVV-PLP. He has since served in various governments as minister of Transport and Foreign Trade; minister of Transport, Postal Services, Telegraphy and Telephony; minister of Education and minister of Postal Services, Telegraphy, Telephony and Pensions. From 1999 till July 2007 Mr. De Croo was the president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the owner house of the Belgian Federal Parliament. He is the current mayor of Brakel. He became State Minister in 1998 and is currently the Vice-President of the Belgian Federal Parliament and has been President of the Federal Advisory Committee on European Affairs since 1999.
Mr. François-Xavier de Donnea MP
Parliament:
Belgian House of Representatives
Political Party:
Mouvement Réformateur Mr. de Donnea is currently Minister of State and Member of the Belgian House of Representatives. He serves as chair or member of several intergovernmental delegations and institutes and is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain. Throughout his career, Mr. de Donnea has served in a variety of roles in public service and academia—as Secretary of State for Development Cooperation, Minister of Defence, Member of the Belgian Parliament, Member of the European Parliament, Mayor of Brussels, and Professor of economics and public management at the University of Louvain.
Mr. Wouter De Vriendt MP
Parliament:
Belgian Federal Parliament
Political Party:
Green Party Mr. De Vriendt is a Flemish politician and member of the "Groen!" party - a Flemish, progressive and green political party, whose sister party is the Francophone Ecolo party. Mr. De Vriendt holds graduate degrees in political science and European Political and International Cooperation. From 2002-2005, Mr. De Vriendt worked as a policy offer for the Groen! party. He later worked as a research worker and an attaché in the Flemish parliament. He lives in Oostende, where he also a municipality Council member.
Ms. Els Demol MP
Parliament:
Belgian House of Representatives
Political Party:
Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (New-Flemish Alliance, N-VA) Els Demol was elected to the Belgian House of Representatives on June 13, 2010. Prior to this, she served as the Councillor of Herent from 2001-2006. She is currently the Vice President of the Advisory Committee for Social Emancipation. Ms. Demol is also on the Committee for Foreign Affairs and is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Senator Jacques Djoli Eseng 'Ekeli
Parliament:
Democratic Republic of the Congo Senate
Political Party:
Mouvement de Liberation du Congo Senator Djoli Eseng ‘Ekeli is an elected senator of the Liberation Movement of the Congo Party for the district of Tshuapa in the Province of L ' Equateur. He is the Vice-President of the Commission for Defense and Safety. Senator Djoli Eseng ‘Ekeli also teaches public law and strategy and is currently involved in conflict prevention initiatives in the DR Congo and in Africa in general.
Senator Djoli Eseng ‘Ekeli is also currently the Vice-President of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ambassador Gary Doer
In October, 2009, Gary Doer assumed his responsibilities as Canada’s 23rd representative to the United States of America.Prior to taking up his current position in Washington, Ambassador Doer served as Premier of Manitoba for ten years. During that time, he worked extensively with U.S. Governors to enhance Canada-U.S. cooperation on trade, agriculture, water protection, climate change and renewable energy.
Ambassador Doer won three consecutive elections as Premier of Manitoba with successive increased majorities. In 2005, he was named by Business Week magazine as one of the top 20 international leaders on climate change. His government introduced balanced budgets during each of his ten years in office while reducing many taxes, including a plan to eliminate small business tax. As Premier, he led strategic investments in health care, education, and training and infrastructure. Ambassador Doer hails from Winnipeg. He is married with two daughters.
Rt Hon Jeffrey Mark Donaldson MP
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Commons
Political Party:
Democratic Unionist Party Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, MP was born in Kilkeel in Northern Ireland. He is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley belonging to the Democratic Unionist Party. In 1985 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, with the distinction of being the youngest person ever to win a seat at Stormont. In 1997, Mr. Donaldson was subsequently elected as a Member of the UK Parliament, for the Lagan Valley constituency.
He was a senior member of the negotiating team in the Northern Ireland constitutional talks and a member of the DUP negotiating team, which participated in the negotiations under the Review of the Belfast Agreement. In 2003 he was re-elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and following the renewal of devolution, Donaldson became Chairman of the Assembly and Executive Review Committee and a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. He subsequently became a Minister in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister with special responsibility for a range of governmental issues, including Children and Young People, policy on older people, supporting the Victims of terrorism, as well as relations with the European Union. He also served on the Justice Committee in the Assembly.
In 2007 he was appointed to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, making him the Right Honourable Jeffrey Donaldson MP MLA. In May 2010, he was re-elected to Parliament for a fourth successive term and presently he is the Party Spokesperson in the House of Commons on Defence and Equality matters.
