Mr. Malama is a Swiss politician from the Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei Schweiz (FDP). From 1989 to 2001 he worked primarily in the private sector. In 2001 he became the Director of the Basel Trade & Crafts Association. His political career began in 1982 when he entered the Basel city branch of the FDP, of which he is still a member. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Great Council of Basel-Stadt. He is also a member of the following: the National Council, the Commission on Security Policy of the National Council, the Legislature Planning Commission, the FDP Parliamentary Coalition of Switzerland and numerous parliamentary lobbying groups.

Mikhail Margelov is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation and was appointed the Special Presidential Envoy for Cooperation with Africa in March 2011. Prior to his service in the Federation Council, Mr. Margelov served as a consultant to President Vladimir Putin’s electoral headquarters in 2000, and was Director of the Russian Information Center (Rosinformcentr) from its creation in October 1999 until 2000. From May 1998 to September 1999, he was a Manager at RIA-Novosti. Mr. Margelov was Head of the Public Relations Department of the Presidential Administration from 1996 to 1999, after having served as Chief Coordinator for Advertising during President Boris Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. In 1995, Mr. Margelov was a Project Director at Video International Group, overseeing the publicity campaigns of Grigory Yavlinsky and the Yabloko party. Mr. Margelov is a graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Countries, which is affiliated with Moscow State University.

Mr. Martinez is the current Deputy for the department of La Paz in El Salvador. A member of the Salvadoran Assembly, Mr. Martinez belongs to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which began as a guerrilla group and continues as an opposition party today. He is one of the eight founding members of FMLN and is its current parliamentary head. From 1994 -1997, Mr Martinez held the position of Head of the Parliamentary Fraction of the FMLN, following which he held the position of First Vice-president of the FMLN to the Legislative Assembly until 2000. From2000-2003 Mr. Martinez held the position of Councilman of the Municipal of San Salvador. He currently sits on the FMLN Special Property Commission as well as the Budget Commission.

Dr. McDonnell was born in Cushendall, Co. Antrim in January 1949. Today he lives in the South Belfast constituency which he serves as an MP. In 1977, when he was elected to Belfast City Council, Dr. McDonnell served as a local Councillor until he retired in 2001. During his time as a Councillor, he was also elected as Deputy Mayor of Belfast, a post he held from 1995 - 1996. In 1998 Dr. McDonnell became a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, which he remains to date. In 2005 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for South Belfast.