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Speakers
 
Opening
 

Mr. Gunter Gloser - Welcome Address

Minister of State for Europe, Germany

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Dr. Joe Borg - Key Note Speech

Commissioner, European Union

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Mr. Aqqaluk Lynge - An Inuits’ Perspective

President ICC-Greenland Vice Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Nuuk (Greenland/Denmark)

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Mr. Arved Fuchs - An Explorers’ Perspective

Polar Explorer, Germany

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Panellists
 

Prof. Dr. Paul Berkman
Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (UK)
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Mr. Rolf E. Fife
Director General, Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo (Norway)
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Baron Ruediger von Fritsch

Director General for Economic Affairs and Sustainable Development, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin (Germany)

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Prof. Dr. em. Franklyn Griffiths
University of Toronto; Consultant on Canadian and circumpolar Arctic Affairs
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Prof. Dr. Louwrens Hacquebord
Arctic Center, University Groningen (Netherlands)
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Mr. Tomas H. Heidar
Legal Adviser, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, Reykjavik; Director, Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)
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Dr. Marie Jacobsson
Legal Adviser on International Law to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm (Sweden)
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Dr. Paula Kankaanpää
Arctic Center, University of Lapland (Finland)
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Mr. Ole Anders Lindseth
Director General, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Oslo (Norway)
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Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte
President, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Maritime Research, Bremerhaven (Germany)
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Captain Vladimir Mikhailichenko
Executive Director, Noncommercial Partnership of the Coordination of Northern Sea Route Usages, Moscow (Russian Federation)
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Dr. Erling Olsen
Former Speaker of the Danish Parliament; Board of Governors of the University of the Arctic, Copenhagen (Denmark)
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Dr. Hanne K. Petersen
Policy Adviser, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Copenhagen (Denmark)
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Dr. Reinhard Priebe

European Commission, Director Atlantic, Outermost Regions and Arctic in the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Brussels

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Dr. Rasmus Ole Rasmussen

Senior Research Associate, Nordic Center for Spatial Development (Sweden)
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Mrs. Kirsten Ullbæk Selvig
Director General Minstry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Oslo (Norway)
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Peter Taksøe-Jensen

Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, United Nations, New York

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Prof. Dr. Alexander Vylegzjanin
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russian Federation)
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Mr. Thomas Winkler
Ambassador; Head of the Legal Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen (Denmark)
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Dr. Georg Witschel
Director General for Legal Affairs, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin (Germany)
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum
Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg (Germany)
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Mr. Brooks B. Yeager
Vice President, Clean Air--Cool Planet (CA-CP) and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Development, Washington, D.C. (USA)
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