Mr. Zitto Zuberi Kabwe
Parliament:
Parliament of Tanzania
Political Party:
Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo Hon. Kabwe is a trained economist from University of Dar es Salaam who later received professional training on International Marketing in Germany. He joined struggles for Multiparty democracy in Tanzania at the age of 16 and since then has been a member of CHADEMA political party. CHADEMA is a centre-centre right party with orientation on market economy. Hon. Kabwe is currently a member of Parliament representing Kigoma North and he chairs a Parliamentary standing committee on Public Investments. He keenly pursues the African transition to a continent free of conflicts. He was an election observer in DR Congo in 2006 and before in Ghana in 2004. In parliament his interests are Trade, Mineral and governance issues. Born in September 1976, Mr. Kabwe is a third born from a family of ten children of Mzee Kabwe and mama Shida.
Mr. Jelko Kacin MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament
Political Party:
Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Mr. Kacin has been a member of the LDS council (1996), member of the Slovenian National Assembly (1996, 2000), and member of Kranj Municipal Council (1998, 2002). In 1996 Mr. Kacin chaired the Foreign Relations Committee and was a member of the Defence Committee and the Constitutional Commission. In 2000 Jelko chaired the Foreign Policy Committee and was a member of the Defence Committee and the European Affairs Commission. He was the Deputy Republican Defence Secretary in 1990 and the Republican Secretary/Minister for Information in 1991; in 1993 he became Defence Minister. In 2000 Jelko was a Member of the Slovenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, member of the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee and head of the national delegation to the IPU (2000). In 2003 Mr. Kacin was a member of the Convention on the Future of Europe.
Ms. Rangina Kargar MP
Parliament:
Wolesi Jirga, National Assembly of Afghanistan Ms. Rangina Kargar is represents the people of the Faryab province in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) in Afghanistan. She has a long and impressive background as an advocate for women’s rights. Ms. Kargar participated in numerous public awareness programs, focused specifically for rural women and combating violence against women, and in 2009, she lived in Andkhoy and worked as literacy teacher for rural women.
She completed her education in Finance in the Economics College of Balkh University in 2007. During her time at Balkh University, Ms. Kargar assembled women’s groups while simultaneously in charge of finance at Noor Private School, where she taught English.
Mrs. Kargar is married with one son, and speaks Dari, English, Uzbek and a little Pashtu.
Mrs. Shinkai Karokhail
Parliament:
Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mrs. Shinkai Karokhail was born in Kabul, in Afghanistan, where she serves today as a Parliamentarian in the National Assembly. She has a Diploma in English from the National Institute of Modern Languages of Islamabad, Pakistan. She also studied to become a Medical Doctor from the Medical College of the Kabul University between 1979 and 1984, and is currently studying political science.
Mrs. Karokhail was one of the founding members of the Afghan Women Educational Center (www.awec.info) in 1991, where she acted as a teacher in the first years, holding various positions as program coordinator or communication officer throughout the development of the NGO. She was also involved in other social work activities with other NGOs in Afghanistan. Since 2002 she has been an acting director of the AWEC, where she is responsible for programs development and management.
In 2005, she was elected as a Parliamentarian in the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, where she works towards conflict prevention and promotes women’s rights.
Ms. Katja Keul MdB
Parliament:
German Bundestag
Political Party:
Alliance 90/The Greens Ms. Keul is a German politician and member of the Bundestag where she currently serves on the Defence Committee. She has been a delegate of the federal working group on peace and international affairs since 2008. She is also the spokeswoman for the Nienburg county branch of Alliance 90/The Greens and ranked fifth on the Alliance 90/The Greens party list in Lower Saxony.
Ms. Keul worked as a lawyer at the Stolzenau local court from 1997 to 2000, and has had her own private practice since March 2000. She is a Member of the German Women Lawyers Association, the German Bar Association; chairwoman of the Nienburg/Stolzenau Bar Association.
She is also a member of the German Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) and is a sponsor with PLAN International.
Dr. Dov Khenin
Parliament:
Knesset
Political Party:
Hadash Dr. Dov Khenin gained an LLB at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Doctorate in political science from Tel Aviv University. He has been a member of Knesset 17 and 18. He is the chairman of the joint committee on environment and health, he co-chairs the Socio-Environmental Lobby in the Knesset, and is a member of the Knesset's Environment and Interior Committee.
Mr. Roderich Kiesewetter MP
Parliament:
German Bundestag
Political Party:
Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union Born in 1963 in Pfullendorf, Mr. Kiesewetter studied economics in Munich and Austin, Texas, and underwent general staff officers’ training at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College from 1995 to 1997. His professional career has involved various command and staff positions, including at the EU Council in Brussels, NATO HQ in Brussels and Mons, the German Federal Ministry of Defence, the position of battalion commander, and several operations abroad.
From 2006 onwards he served as head of the Chief of Staff’s office (Executive Offices) at NATO Headquarters in Mons. In 2009, he was elected to the 17th German Bundestag by the voters of the Aalen-Heidenheim constituency in Baden-Württemberg.
He is deputy chairman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and serves as member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Affairs of the European Union as well as the Subcommittee on Civil Crisis Prevention and Integrated Conflict Management. Mr. Kiesewetter is also spokesman on Disarmament Arms Control and Non-Proliferation of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag. He holds the position of Head of the German delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA).
Roderich Kiesewetter is Deputy President of the German Armed Forces Reservists´ Association.
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Lords
Political Party:
Labour Party Baroness Kinnock is currently the Opposition Spokesperson for International Development in the UK’s House of Lords. She previous served as the Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations (2009-10) and Minister for Europe (2009).
Baroness Kinnock was elected to three successive terms as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2009, representing Wales. She was a Member of the European Parliament’s Development and Foreign Affairs Committees. She also served as the Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific/EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly from 2002 until 2009.
Evgeni Kirilov
Parliament:
EU
Political Party:
Socialist Group in the European Parliament Mr. Kirilov has been a Member of the National Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) since 1997. He served as a MP of the Republic of Bulgaria for four consecutive National Assemblies from 1995 to 2007. He joined the European Parliament in 2007 and is currently a member of the Committee on Regional Development, the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and a member of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. Mr. Kirilov is also Substitute Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament and rapporteur on South Caucasus.
Mr. Konstantin Kosachev MP
Parliament:
State Duma of the Russian Federation
Political Party:
United Russia Party Mr. Kosachev was elected to the state Duma for the first time in 1999 and currently serves as chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs. A respected diplomat prior to his service in the Duma, Mr. Kosachev worked in various Russian diplomatic missions as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He represented Russia in negotiations with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as well as the Parliament of Sweden, and is the recipient of the Russian Order of Friendship and the Swedish Royal Order of the North Star. Mr. Kosachev received his PhD from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
