Angelos (Evangelos) Sirigos, is an Associate Professor of International Law and Foreign affairs at Panteion University.
He was born in Athens in 1966. He is a graduate of Law School of the University of Athens and a Doctor of Law of Bristol University. He has worked at Cambridge University (1993-1994), the European Council and as a lawyer for the Athens Bar Association. He has served as a General Secretary at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of migration and citizenship (2012 - 2015) and also as a Special Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Reli-gious Affairs (2007 - 2009) in charge of foreigners Greek children and Muslim children in Thrace. He has served in positions of responsibility on issues of minority foreign affairs, transparency and telecommunications. He was awarded in 1992 by the Academy of Athens for his work about the continental shelf delim-itation. During his military service, he was honored with a Praise by the 4th Army Corps in Thrace for his services to the minority of Thrace and with an Honourable Mention by the Army General Staff for his contribution in creating a Pomaks - Greek dictionary. He has written books on the Greek-Turkish affairs, the Cypriot Issue, the Prespa Agreement. He speaks English and French.  He was elected for the first time as a Member of the Greek Parliament with the New Democracy party on July 7th, 2019 in Athens. He is married to Irene Stamatoudi and have three children.

Adjunct professor of political science at the University of Athens. In addition to EU integration policies he works on politics of memory regarding ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey, on history of political centralism and as a former director at the UN, on international refugee law.
In 1999, he initiated a civil initiative for Istanbul’s candidacy for the European Capital of Culture, which happened in 2010. In 2008, he initiated an online apology campaign addressed to Armenians and supported by a number of Turkish intellectuals as well as over 32.000 citizens.
His new book “L’âme de la Turquie”, Editions Nevicata will hit the shelves early 2020

Panayotis Giatagatzides is a lawyer of Areios Pagos, the Supreme Court of Greece and director of the law firm P.Giatagantzides & Associates in Athens. He studied law at the University of Athens and European Law at the Free University of Brussels, where he worked as a researcher between 1978-1981. He was a proponent at the Court of Justice of the European Union between 1989-1994 and a lecturer at the National School of Judges between 1999-2004. He has delivered numerous lectures on EU institutions and substantive law, as well as on human rights. The lectures were addressed to Courts, Law Associations and professional bodies in Greece, other European countries and the U.S.A. As a lawyer, he has handled a significant number of cases before the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.

Dr. Vasileios Meichanetsidis, JCD, has studied Humanities, Religion, Law, International Human Rights Law, Byzantine and Oriental Studies, Peace Building Management, Political Science and History in various European Universities (Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy and Greece). He has taught for a number of years at the European Schools of Brussels. He has worked as Special Advisor to the Ambassador of Cyprus to the Holy See and the UN Organizations in Rome. He is the initiator and co-editor of the groundbreaking volume on the Genocide of the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire entitled: "Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjornlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis, The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks: Studies on the State-Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor (1912-1922) and Its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory., New York & Athens, 2011."

Activist from Pontus, researcher, writer. He was born in 1965 as a child of an Islamized Greek family. He is from Trabzon. He is the author of the first Turkish book on the Greek Genocide of Pontus. In 2016, His book Pontus Gerçeği (The Truth of Pontus) was published by Belge Publishing. He wrote his book especially in Turkish which supported with documents based on the secret records of National Assembly of Turkey. Since 2016, he has participated in panels and conferences about Greek Genocide of Pontus in many European cities. He continues to write articles on Pontus history and genocide in many Turkish newspapers and magazines.

Dr. phil.Tessa Hofmann, Magistra Artium, Prof. h.c.;studied philology (Slavic literatures and languages, Armenian Studies) and Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB); 1983-2015 research associate at the Institute for Eastern European Studies of the FU Berlin; research associate in international research projects (e.g. "Out-Migration from Armenia and Georgia", 2008-2012); since 2015 independent scholar; author.
Numerous publications on the history, culture and present situation of Armenia and her diaspora, on genocide research with a focus on Ottoman genocide, on minorities in Turkey and the South Caucasus; since 1979 volunteer human rights work, e.g. as Chair of the non-profit Working Group Recognition - Against Genocide, for International Understanding (http://www.aga-online.org/aboutus/index.php?locale=en); founding member and spokeswoman of the board of the Association for the Promotion of an Ecumenical Memorial for Genocide Victims in the Ottoman Empire (FÖGG - http://www.genozid-gedenkstaette.de/ueberuns/index.php).

Harutyun Marutyan is social/cultural anthropologist, Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Head Researcher at the Department of Contemporary Anthropo­logical Studies of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. His first PhD he received at the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow), the second PhD – in 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan. His research interests include Armenian Genocide memory, national identity transformation, modern national movements, iconography, traditional Armenian culture, and poverty. Harutyun Marutyan is the author of three monographs (The Interior of the Armenian Traditional Dwellings (second half of the XIX - beginning of the XX century) (Yerevan: Academy of Sciences of ArmSSR, 1989, in Russian). The Role of Memory in the Structure of Identity: Questions of Theory (Yerevan: Noravank, 2006, in Arm.). Iconography of Armenian identity. Volume 1: The Memory of Genocide and the Karabagh Movement (Yerevan: Gitutyun, 2009, in Arm. and in Engl.). as well as contributor to five collective monographs (among them: Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. Stalin Era Repressions in Armenia: History, Memory, Everyday Life. Yerevan: Gitutyun, 2015 (in Arm.) and authored more than a hundred scholarly articles.

Konstantinos Fotiadis was born in Ano Zervochori in Naoussa, in 1948 by refugee parents. In the academic year 1966-1967 he was awarded with scholarship in the Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He continued his studies at Tubingen University where he studied history, folklore and political science. In December 1989, he was elected lecturer of the History of Hellenism of Anatolia from the 15th century onwards and he was subsequently elected Professor of Modern History of Hellenism at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was dean of the Pedagogical School of Aristotle University of Florina and president of the Pontian Studies Center. He has written in total 46 books regarding the Modern History and the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus.

Lambros Kouloumbaritsis is a peer tutor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and associate member of the Academy of Athens. He is also an honorary doctor at the Universities of Oradea, Liège, Lille, Athens, Crete and Thessaloniki. As a visiting professor, he has taught in many European Universities, mainly in the context of European programs. Ιn 1994, he was honoured by the French Academy for all the work that he has carried out and, especially, for the book "At the beginnings of European philosophy" (Prix Gegner), and in 1999 for the "History of Ancient and Medieval Times Philosophy” (Prix Montyon). Until 2000, he was mainly involved with ancient and medieval philosophy. He has since dealt with modern philosophy and contemporary reflections starting from his books "The Proximity and the Issue of Human Pain" (2005) and "Philosophy Opposite the Question of Complexity '(two volumes, 2014). He has just released his book "The Tale of Violence". His work consists of 220 philosophy studies, 10 books, and has 20 international collective treatises, alone or in collaboration. His work has been published mainly in French. As a teacher, he taught over 30,00 students and trained many researchers, 17 of which have become University professors in Belgium and abroad (Japan, Iran, Congo, Spain, England and Canada).

Dr. Mary Stylidi holds a Diploma (BA) in Occupational Therapy from the University of Western Attica, a Diploma in Pedagogics from the Superior School of Pedagogical and Technological Education in Crete, an MA in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid from the University of Madrid and an MA in Human Services, an MBA in Disaster Management and a Doctorate of Science in Disaster Psychology from Headway University in USA. She works at the Department of Special Education Personnel of the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religion Affairs and she is also deployed as an External Expert in United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva and as an International Consultant in the Field of Education, Health and Human Rights in the European Commission. Currently, she conducts her post-doc research in Aleppo, Syria on “Human devastation Syndrome”.

Dr. Nikos Michailidis is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He has previously taught at Rutgers and Princeton universities. His current research focuses on political anthropology, music and the revival of ethnic identities, and the political management of collective memory and cultural heritage in Turkey. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Trebizond, Istanbul and Ankara. Dr. Michailidis is currently finishing his first book provisionally entitled Music and the Revival of Ethnicity in Turkey, to be published by Indiana University Press.

UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2012-2018), former Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee and Chief of the Petitions Department at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Author of 9 books including "The Genocide Against the Armenians and the Relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention" (Haigazian University Press, Beirut 2010), and the UN Human Rights Committee Case Law (together with Judge Jakob Möller, N.P.Engel, Strasbourg 2009). Professor of Intenrational Law, Geneva School of Diplomacy. J.D. Harvard Law School 1970, Dr. phil., Universität Göttingen 1977. US and Swiss citizen

Benny Morris was born in Israel in 1948. After being educated in Israel, the United States and United Kingdom (PhD – Cambridge University), he worked as a journalist in the Jerusalem Post during 1978-1990. Since 1997, he is a professor of history in the Middle East Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel. During 2015-2018, he was a visiting professor of history in Georgetown University, Washington DC. Among his publications you can find the books: "Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956" (1993); "Righteous Victims" (1999); "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited" (2004); "1948, A History of the First Arab-Israeli War" (2008) and "The Thirty-Year Genocide, Turkey's Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924" (co-authored with Dror Ze’evi - 2019). He has published articles in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Observer, The
Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, and Corriere della Sera.

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— 1981 Bachelors of Science in Industrial Technology
— 1989 Master in Business Administration Univeristy of Baltimore
— 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, SUNY Buffalo State
— 13 years during the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s working in education and humanitarian work in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda
— 11 years working in high school chaplaincy
— 12 years working in human rights and genocide education

Carl Wilkens id the Co-founder and Director of World Outside My Shoes.

Dror Zeevi teaches history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. From 2006 to 2009, he served as President of Israel’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Association. Ze’evi published several books and articles on Ottoman social and cultural history. His current research (with Benny Morris) focuses on the Armenian Massacres, 1894-1924.

Co-founder and President for Yazda Organization (Yazidi Organization established to support the Yazidi minority aftermath of the Genocide campaign committed against Yazidis in August 2014, an organization that also founded Nadia Murad`s campaign). Co-Founder of Nadia Murad`s campaign
Education: Bachelors degree in Psychology at the University of Houston. Haider worked previously for the US government in Iraq as a translator and cultural advisor. Haider lost his young brother in the attack against the Yazidi people in August 2014 and became involved in helping the victims the advocacy to prevent future genocides against minorities. Haider has lived in Houston TX since 2010. Haider Elias and his organization (Yazda) have multiple projects for Yazidi minority: • Psycho-social therapy for women who have been traumatized by ISIS, • Case management through Iraqi social Services, • Documentation Project (taking oral testimonies from the victims of Genocide), • Livelihood projects with the USAID, • Fighting alongside Amal Clooney for Justice and accountably (bring ISIS members to justice), • Advocating for accepting Yazidis for refugees in US and Europe.

Theriault taught philosophy at and now is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University (USA). Theriault researches genocide denial, genocide prevention, post-genocide victim-perpetrator relations, reparations, and mass violence against women. He chairs the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and was lead author of its March 2015 report, Resolution with Justice. He has published numerous journal articles and chapters, edited multiple journals, and delivered talks around the world. Elected in 2017 and 2019, Theriault is currently the International Association of Genocide Scholars’ president. With Samuel Totten, he co-authored the forthcoming book, The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction.

Israel W. Charny is long-time director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem which he founded together with Elie Wiesel and the late Shamai Davidson, MD, a specialist in treatment of Holocaust survivors, in 1981. The establishment took place in anticipation of the famed First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, in 1982, which Charny conceived and led against heavy pressures from the Turkish and Israeli governments to close it down. His latest book is The Genocide Contagion and includes Learning Exercises for the reader/student.

Steven Leonard Jacobs, DHL, is Professor of Religious Studies and Emeritus Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies at The University of Alabama. His primary research areas are Hebrew Bible, Jewish-Christian Relations, Holocaust, and historical and contemporary genocides. He is the author, editor, translator of more than fifteen books and more than fifty refereed articles and book chapters in his work

Dr. Robert Shenk is an emeritus professor of English at the University of New Orleans; he is also a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, having seen duty on a destroyer and on river patrol boats in Vietnam. A chapter of Shenk's 2012 naval history America's Black Sea Fleet portrays atrocities committed against Ottoman Greeks in the Pontus in 1921. In February of 2020, Shenk and Sam Koktzoglou of Chicago will publish a comprehensive edition of records of American destroyer captains stationed at Samsun in 1921-22 called The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries.