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Speakers
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- dr. Danilo Türk
Dr. Danilo Türk was born on 19 February 1952 in Maribor. He studied law at the University of Ljubljana and obtained a doctor’s degree on international law and human rights in 1975. He has been prorector at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana since 2005 and published more than 100 specialist papers on international law. He was the first Slovenian ambassador to the UN in New York from 1992 to 1998 and deputy to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 1999 to 2005. In 2007 he became the President of the Republic of Slovenia.
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- dr. Miroslav Radman
Dr. Miroslav Radman studied Biology, Physical Chemistry and Microbiology at the University of Zagreb and obtained his doctorate (1969) in Microbiology at the Free University of Brussels. From 1969 to 1973 he researched at the National Research Centre in Gif-sur-Yvette and at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University. From 1973 until 1983 he was Professor of Molecular Biology at the Free University of Brussels. Then until 1998 he was Research Director at the French Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 7. Since 1998, Miroslav Radman has been Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Paris 5. He was Visiting Professor at the National Institutes of Health in the USA (1988/1990) and at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb (2002). Professor Radman has been awarded a great many scientific prizes and owns several patents.
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- Morten Lund
Morten Lund is an entrepreneur from Copenhagen, Denmark. Along with Soren Kenner, Lund is founder and managing partner of LundKenner, a venture capital firm focusing on technology ventures. From 2007 he has also fronted the startup catalyst LundXY. Described variously as an 'archangel investor', startup 'ideologist' and 'visionary', Lund has founded or co-invested in more than 40 high-tech start ups in the last decade, most famously Skype, the VoIP star snapped up by eBay for $2.6 billion in 2005. In May 2008 Lund made headlines again with the sale of Danish social networking and mobile backup site ZYB to operator Vodafone Europe BV for a sum believed to be in the region of $49m. His portfolio features over 80 companies spanning the Internet, telecoms, health and alternative energy.
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- Itay Talgam
Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene explores the relationship between conductor, musician and audience to achieve inspiring new insights into leadership, management and team work. Talgam is a champion of contemporary music, and in particular music of contemporary Israeli composers. He has taught orchestral conducting at the Rubin Academy for music, Tel-Aviv University, and the Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. In addition to his current conducting activities, he is intensely involved in many educational projects.