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Notable speakers

Dr Mo Ibrahim
Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
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Fredrik Reinfeldt
Prime Minister of Sweden
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Jacques Chirac
Former President of France
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Jerzy Buzek
President, European Parliament
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José Manuel Barroso
President, European Commission
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José Socrates
Prime Minister of Portugal
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Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland
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Yves Leterme
Prime Minister of Belgium
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Jean Ping
President, African Union Commission
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Justin Kilcullen
President, CONCORD
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Kofi Annan
Former Secretary General of the United Nations
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Muhammad Yunus
Founder & Managing Director, Grameen Bank
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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
President, TERI
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Amadou Toumani Touré
President of Mali
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President of Liberia
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Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
President of Tanzania
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Madhav Kumar Nepal
Prime Minister of Nepal
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Morgan Tsvangirai
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
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Salam Fayyad
Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
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Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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EDD has been a springboard for the ideas and interventions of political leaders and world-renowned authorities on development. Heads of State, Nobel Prize laureates, business leaders, and development professionals – whether from European headquarters or the field – are all encouraged and helped to meet, debate and innovate for results at the European Development Days. Among the notable Forum visitors the Forum has welcomed in recent years, are the following: