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. 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.

Mr. McDonnell was born in Cushendall, Co. Antrim in January 1949. Today he lives in the South Belfast constituency which he serves as MP. In 1977, when he was elected to Belfast City Council, Mr. 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 Mr. 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.

Ms. Memon started her career as a banker at Citibank Pakistan where she specialized in Marketing and Quality Management. Then she launched Pakistan’s first satellite tracking fleet management company Trakker, which established her as an entrepreneur and the youngest woman CEO of a multinational firm in the country. Later she advised the military and Pakistan's President on media management and Investment promotion.
 
Ms. Memon is politically affiliated with the Pakistan Muslim League. Her articles have been published  in research journals and newspapers.

Ms. Memon holds a world record in protests as she is the only current parliamentarian who spent 7 continuous nights and days on a footpath protesting for the rights of workers in March 2010.

Marvi Memon is a Member of the Information Technology, Environment, and Gilgit Baltistan Kashmir Standing Committees of the National Assembly of Pakistan. She chairs the Climate Change Sub-Committee in the National Assembly as well.
 
Ms. Marvi Memon graduated from the London School of Economics with a B.Sc (Econ) Honors in International Relations.
 

Mr. Mitchell is the Vice-Chairman of the EU delegation to the ACP (African Caribbean Pacific) – EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He was Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for European Affairs (and preparation for the IGC in 1996). Mr. Mitchell also served for the second time as Fine Gael Front Bench Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs from June 2002 to October 2004.

Ms. Morgantini is an Italian former Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the Communist Refoundation Party ticket and sat with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. She is a leading member of the Italian peace movement and was one of the founders of the Italian branch of the Women in Black anti-war organisation.