Alexander Kvitashvili - historian, specializing in the modern history of Europe and the US, and the State Management Specialist. He graduated from Tbilisi State University and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York. He has worked in: the Financial and Administrative departments of Atlanta Grade
Ismail Serageldin - director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and professor of the WAGENINGEN University in Netherlands. He chairs the Boards of Directors for each of the BA's affiliated research institutes and museums. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, member of the Institutd'Egypte (Egypt
Vaclav Havel - a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and politician. Served as the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992), and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). He has written over twenty plays, some of which are translated into number of languages. Havel received the US President
Marie Anne IslerBéguin - French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the French Greens, part of the European Greens. She was re-elected in 2004. She sits on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and is a substitute for the Committee
Vytautas Landsbergis - Lithuanian professor, conservative politician and member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union, and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament Seimas. Professor Landsbergis is an intellectual who has b
Carlo Ginzburg - noted Italian historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. Author of many studies, collection of which has been published by ISU in Georgian under the title "Footprints.Myths.Microhistory ". Carlo Ginzburg was awarded doctorate degree from University of Pisa in 1961. He taught in Bologna (Ital
Ana de Palacio y del Valle-Lersundi - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain during 2002-2004. She is expert in European Law by profession, and spent eight years (1994–2002) with the European Parliament where she has chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee and the Justice and Home Affairs Com
ValeriyaNovodvorskaya - a Russianliberal politician, Soviet dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party, and a member of the editorial board of The New Times.Novodvorskaya has been active in the Soviet dissident movement since her youth, and first imprisoned by the Soviet authorities in 19
Vladimir Bukovsky - neuropsychologist by profession, member of the 1960-1970 dissident movement, writer and a political activist. He was one the first people to publicly denounce political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union over political prisoners. Bukovsky spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and psychi
Patrick Hickey - President of the European Olympic Committee. Thanks to him a number of international projects have been implemented, particularly through company investments in the Olympic sports that enabled development of child sports and popularization of healthy lifestyle. Hickey is a famous Irish athlete, who has
Jose Maria Lopez Aznar - Prime Minister of Spain during 1996-2004. Born on February 25, 1953 in Madrid. He graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid. He became interested in politics in the mid-1970s and in 1987 he was elected to the presidency of the regional branches of right-wing liberal party, "People's A
Leo Kvachadze - creator of the first syntactic system of the Georgian language, marking an important step stone in the linguistic study of Georgian language and its perception as a part of world civilization. After graduating university in 1930, Leo Kvachadzeinitially worked as a teacher in the region of Svaneti and in