8 November 2024 - 9.00-10.00 / Hemicycle, Palais de l’Europe

INTERPRETATION: FR/EN

 

Maîtres de cérémonie:

Annette GERLACH, Journalist and TV Host, ARTE, France

Annette Gerlach from Berlin is a bilingual journalist and TV host for ARTE, the European cultural channel she joined when it was founded in 1992. She presents the daily news programme as well as prestigious live music events from La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Paris Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival, and the Savonlinna Festival in Finland. She is also in charge of developing Educ'ARTE and ARTE Campus in Germany, ARTE's educational tools for schools and universities. Annette Gerlach is a regular speaker at conferences, round tables, symposia or award ceremonies for the Council of Europe or the European Parliament, among other institutions and associations. She also does coaching for television and stage presentations.

 

Alex TAYLOR, European journalist, France

Alex Taylor is a European journalist. He has produced and presented TV and radio programmes for 30 years, mainly on French TV and radio (France Télévisions, France Inter), but also for international broadcasters (Euronews, TV5 Monde, ARTE, BBC). He was Programme Director for Radio France Internationale in charge of implementing the current 24 hours news format. Parallel to journalism, he has hosted some 1 500 international conferences on a wide variety of topics, especially environmental issues. He has also written a best seller on his passion, languages, of which he speaks (more or less) 7. He also once worked as a camel trainer in a circus.

 


Moderator:


 

Caitríona DOYLE, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the Council of Europe

 

 

 

 

 

Panel:


 

Frédéric BIERRY, President of the European collectivity of Alsace, France

 

 

 

 

Renzo DIAZ GIUNTA, lawyer, Peru 

Renzo Diaz Giunta is a Peruvian lawyer with a degree in Law from the University of Lima. He currently serves as the International Director of Constitutional Law at ODM (Organización Democrática Mundial por el Desarrollo), is a constitutional advisor to the Secretariat of Academic Affairs at the CIED of the National University San Antonio Abad of Cusco, and works as an associate lawyer at iGlobal Lawyer (Italy). He has experience with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Constitutional Court of Peru, and the Congress of the Republic of Peru. He is a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (Sweden) and the Generation Democracy network of the International Republican Institute (USA). Additionally, he was a Youth Delegate to the Council of Europe in 2023 and a Fellow of IREX and USAID for the project “CREDIBLE: Voices of Youth.” He also represented Peru at the XXXVII Meeting of High Authorities on Human Rights of Mercosur. Furthermore, during the coup d'état led by former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo in December 2022, he played a key role in restoring constitutional order by peacefully removing him from office using constitutional mechanisms, for which he received an award in 2023.


 

Georgios KATROUGALOS, Independent Expert on a Democratic and Equitable International Order of the United Nations, Greece 

 

 

 


Conservation of Generations

 


 

Raffaella Y. NANETTI, Ph.D, Professor Emerita, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illenois at Chicago

 

 

 

 


 

Jaden BRAVES, Chief Executive Officer of the Young Politicians of Canada

 

 

 

 

 


Raha, Young refugee from Afghanistan