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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
MONDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2006
Canadian Ambassador Fredericka Gregory
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA):
Mr. Johnny Flento, Director of the
Africa Department
Ms. Maria Ana Petrera, Head of Section,
Development Policy Division
Ms. Helle Vadmand, Head
of Section, Technical Assistance Advisory Service
Mr. Steen Gade, Chair
of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament
Ms. Nana Hvidt,
Director, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Dr. Neil Webster, Head
of Department
Mr. Morten Kjaerum,
Director, Danish Institute of Human Right
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HELSINKI, FINLAND
TUESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2006
Canadian Ambassador Anne-Marie Bourcier
Ministry for Foreign Affairs:
Ms. Sinikka Antila, Director, Unit for
General Policy Development and Planning
Mr. Pekka Puustinen, Director, Unit for
Sectoral Policy,
Department for Development Policy
Ms. Johanna Jokinen-Gavidia, Advisor,
Democracy and Good Governance, Unit for Sectoral Policy
Members of the Development Policy
Committee:
Mrs. Gunvor Kronman, Chair, (Finnish
People’s Party)
Mr. Kalle Laaksonen (Finnish Centre
Party)
Mr. Hannua Ohvo (Trade Union Solidarity
Centre)
Mr. Timo Lappalainen (Service Centre for
Development Cooperation)
Mrs. Heini Roysko (Christina Democrats)
Mr. Rolf Sormo (True Finns Party)
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament :
Mr. Ilkka Kanerva, Foreign
Affairs Committee
Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee:
Ms. Liisa Jaakonsaari, Chair
Ms. Mari Kiviniemi, Vice-Chair
Mr. Kimmo Kijunen
Mr. Johaness Koskinen
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LONDON, ENGLAND
WEDNESDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2006
High Commissioner Jim Wright
David French, Chief Executive, The Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Professor Jennifer Welsh, Oxford University
Members of the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on International Development:
Mr. Malcolm Bruce, Chair (Liberal
Democrats)
Mr. Hugh Bayley (Labour), and Chair of
the Board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Mr. John Battle (Labour)
Mr. James Duddridge (Conservative)
Ms. Anne McKechin (Labour)
Department for International Development
(DFID):
Mr. Peter Owen, Senior Governance Advisor,
Policy Division,
Governance and Social Development Group
Mr. Jeremy Armon, Governance Advisor,
Effective States Team,
Policy Division, Governance and Social
Development Group
Commonwealth Secretariat:
Secretary General Don McKinnon
Mr. Matthew Neuhaus, Director, Political
Affairs Division
Mr. Richard Gold,
Director, Governance and Institutional Development Division
Ms. Rabab Fatima, Adviser and Head of Human Rights
Unit
Dr. Rawwida Baksh, Adviser and Head of Gender
Section, Social Transformation Programmes Division
Mr. Christopher Child, Advisor and Head of the
Democracy Section, Political Affairs Division
Ms. Katalaina Sapolu, Adviser and Head of Justice
Section, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division;
Mr. John Wilkins, Advisor Public Sector Management
and Head of Special Programmes Section, Governance and Institutional
Development Division
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2006
Canadian Ambassador Lorenz Friedlaender
Ministry for Foreign Affairs:
Mr. Torgny Holmgren, Deputy
Director-General, Head of the Development Policy Division
Ms. Ulrika Funered, Human Rights and
Democracy Section
Ms. Kanslirad Hoglund Karin, Civil
Society and Democracy Section
Officials From the Swedish International
Development Agency (SIDA):
Mr. Mikael Bostrom, Head of the Division
for Democratic Governance
Mr. Niklas Enander, Programme Officer,
Political Parties and Parliaments
International Institute for Democracy
and Electoral Assistance (IDEA):
Ms. Ingrid Wetterqvist, Head, Planning
and External Relations
Ms. Sakuntala Kadirgamar Rajasingham,
Head of the South Asia Program
Mr. Mark Salter, Senior Programme
Officer, Democracy Building & Conflict Management Programme
Mr. Ayman Ayoub, Senior Programme
Officer
Mr. Roger
Hällhag, Head of Programme for Political Parties
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OSLO, NORWAY
FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2006
Members of the Standing Committee on
Foreign Affairs:
Ms. Marit Nybakk (Labour), Acting Chair
Ms. Anette Trettebergstuen (Labour)
Vidar Bjornstad (Labour)
Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (RMFA):
Mr. Petter Wille, Deputy Director
General, Global Section
Mr. Hans Jacob Frydenlund, Special
Representative on Sudan
Ms. Ingrid Schoyen, Adviser, Middle East Section
Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation (NORAD):
Ms. Jannicke Bain, NORAD, Head of
Section Responsible for Democracy Building
Norwegian Centre for Democracy Support:
Ms. Astrid Thomassen, Project
Coordinator
Mr. John Inge Lovdal, Chairman of the
Board
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights:
Mr. Geir Ulfstein, Director, Centre for
Human Rights
Norwegian Resource Bank for Democracy
and Human Rights (NORDEM):
Ms. Siri Skåre, Project Director, NORDEM
Mr. Christian Boe
Astrup, Information Officer
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WASHINGTON D.C
MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2007
Canadian Embassy:
Kevin O’Shea, Minister
David Lowe, Vice-President, Government and External Relations, National
Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Vin Weber, Chairman, National Endowment for Democracy
Ivan Doherty, Director of Political Party Programs,
National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Christopher Sands, Senior Associate,
Canada Project, Centre for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and also associate with the
International Republican Institute (IRI)
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U.S. Department of State:
Paula Dobriansky, Under-Secretary, Democracy and Global Affairs
Barry Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights and Labor
Stephen Krasner, State Department Director of Policy and Planning
Mike Kozak, Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and
International Organizations, National Security Council
Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs
Betsy Whitaker, Deputy Assistant
Secretary (Canada and Mexico), Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
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U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID):
Paul Bonicelli, Deputy Assistant Administrator
Maria Rendon, Acting Director, Office of Democracy and Governance,
Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau
Keith Schultz, Office of Democracy and Governance
Gerald Hyman, Senior Advisor and
President of the Hills Program on Governance, Center for Strategic and
international Studies; Ex-Director of the USAID Office of Democracy and
Governance
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Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace:
Thomas Carothers, Vice-President for
Studies – International Politics and Governance; Founder and Director of the
Democracy and Rule of Law Project
Marina Ottaway, Director, Middle East Program
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WASHINGTON D.C
TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2007
Canadian Ambassy:
Richard Rowson, President, Council for a
Community of Democracies (CCD)
Theodore Piccone, Executive Director,
Democracy Coalition Project, and representative of the Club of Madrid in Washington
Thomas O. Melia, Walsh School of Foreign
Service, Georgetown University, and Deputy Executive Director, Freedom House
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World Bank:
Samy Watson, Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean
Sanjay Pradhan, Sector Director in the Public Sector, Governance Unit
Steen Lau Jorgensen, Director in the
Sustainable Development Network
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Organization of American States (OAS):
Ambassador Graeme
Clark, Canada’s Permanent Representative to the OAS
José Miguel
Insulza, OAS Secretary General
Albert Ramdin, Assistant
Secretary General
Dante Caputo,
Under Secretary for Political Affairs
Peter Hakim,
President of the Inter-American Dialogue
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NEW YORK, NY, USA
WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2007
Canada’s
Permanent Mission to the United Nations:
John McNee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Henri-Paul Normandin, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
Heidi Hulan, Counsellor (Political)
Hugh Adsett, Counsellor (Legal)
Diana Rivington,
Counsellor (Development)
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United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF):
Mr. Magdy Martinez-Soliman, Acting Executive Director
Ms. Randi Davis, Senior Program Officer
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Peacebuilding Support
Office:
Carolyn McAskie, Assistant
Secretary-General
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Ambassadors and Representatives to the
United Nations:
The Honourable Robert Hill, Ambassador
of Australia to the United Nations
His Excellency Mr. Johan L. Lovald,
Ambassador of Norway to the United Nations
His Excellency Cheick Sidi Diarra,
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mali
His Excellency Youcef Yousfi, Ambassador
and Permanent Representative of Algeria
Paul Johnston, Counsellor Political
Affairs of the mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
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The Council on Foreign Relation:
Richard Haass,
President
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Democratic Governance Group, United
Nations Development Programme:
Pippa Norris, Director, Democratic
Governance Group, Bureau for Development Policy
Gilbert Houngbo, Assistant Administrator
and Director of Regional Bureau for Africa
Jennifer Topping, Director, Division for
Resource Mobilization,
Bureau Resources and Strategic
Partnerships
Jean Claude Rogivue, Chief, South and West Asia Division,
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Akiko Suzaki, Programme Manager for Afghanistan, RBAP
Scott Hubli, Policy Adviser
(Parliamentary Development),
Democratic Governance Group, BDP
Nina Berg, Policy Adviser (Justice),
Democratic Governance Group, BDP
Elissar Sarrouh, Policy Adviser (Public
Administration Reform),
Democratic Governance Group, BDP
Limya El-Tayeb, Adviser, Division for
Resource Mobilization, BRSP
Anne-Marie Goetz, UNIFEM Governance,
Peace and Security
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NEW YORK, NY, USA
THURSDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 2007
Canada’s
Permanent Mission to United Nations:
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University
George W. Downs, New York University
Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies
and Senior Fellow,
New York University Center on International Cooperation
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United Nations Electoral Assistance
Division:
Craig Jenness, Director, Electoral Assistance Division,
Steven Siqueira, Special Assistant to the Special Representative of
the Secretary-General, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
Richard Gee, Political/Electoral
Affairs Officer
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