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.
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.
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.
Ms. Glenys Kinnock
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Lords
Political Party:
Labour Party Ms. Glenys Kinnock is a former Member of the European Parliament, serving from 1999- 2009. She was President of the European Parliament’s Permanent Ad-Hoc Delegation for Relation with Iraq and Vice-President of the Committee on Women's Rights of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. She also served as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In 1997 Ms. Kinnock was created Life Peer in the House of Lords where she sits on the Liberal Democrat benches. She was the Member of Parliament for Devon and West Torridge (1987-1997), and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party (1983-1987). She was also recently appointed as Minister of State for Europe.
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).
Mr. Helmut Kuhne
