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Liberal International Delegation: 12 June 2014

Dr. Juli Minoves Triquell, LI President (Andorra)

Dr. Minoves was born on 15 August, 1969 in Andorra la Vella, Andorra.

He holds a PhD from Yale University and a Masters of Philosophy in
Political Science (Comparative Politics, Political Philosophy and Political
Economy). He was elected as President of Liberal International at LIs
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59 Congress in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in April 2014. He served as
a Minister for Foreign Affairs of Andorra from April 12, 2001 till May 7,
2007. From December 2007 until May 2009 he served as a Minister of
Public Affairs, Economic Development, Tourism, and Culture.

Prior to his ministerial positions, Dr. Minoves served as Ambassador and

Permanent Representative of Andorra to the United Nations, United
States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, and the World Trade
Organization.

Dr. Minoves is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of La Verne in
Southern California. He speaks Catalan, French, Spanish, English, Italian, German and Portuguese.

Markus Lning, LI Vice-President (Germany)

Markus Lning is the former German Federal Commissioner for Human

Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid. He was elected as a Vice-President
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dIvoire and recently re-elected to the same position at the 59 LI
Congress in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The focal points of
Commissioner Lnings human rights work are death penalty issues,
expression and press freedom, protection of human rights defenders
and minorities rights. Regionally, the Commissioner has been primarily
concerned with the human rights situation in Eastern Europe, China,
South Caucasus, Central Asia, North Africa, Turkey and Myanmar. Most
recently, he campaigned as part of the establishment of refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon to
support the refugees from the conflict in Syria. As a member of the German Bundestag he started
focusing on European and development policy matters. From 2005 to 2011 Mr. Lning was Vice
President of the ALDE Party. He holds a Bachelors degree in political science from the University of
Kent at Canterbury and a Master of Arts degree from the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

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Right Honorary, John, Lord Alderdice, LI Past President (United Kingdom)

Lord Alderdice is a Past President of Liberal International (2005-2009) and

sits in the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat. He is also a psychiatrist
and a former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1987-1998)
and a former speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998-2004).

Alderdice gave crucial leadership to Alliance during a very difficult time and
through his personal and political relations with British and Irish Government
figures and leading political actors in Northern Ireland contributed to the
development of a new approach known as the Irish Peace Process. He led
the Alliance in all the talks during this period with the British and Irish
Governments and the other political parties, including the negotiations chaired by Senator George
Mitchell which resulted in the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. After the successful referendum
and elections to the new Northern Ireland Assembly he retired as Alliance Party Leader and was
appointed Speaker of the newly created Northern Ireland Assembly and was responsible for
developing the new processes and procedures of the power-sharing body.

He has also served as Treasurer and later a Vice-President of the European Liberal Democrat and
Reform Party (1995-2003) and a Chairman of Liberal International Human Rights Committee to which
he is now an honorary patron.

In addition to his current political responsibilities he now continues his academic work on conflict
resolution at Oxford University where he has just founded the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable
Conflict.

Emil Kirjas, Secretary-General of Liberal International

Mr. Kirjas (born 26 June 1975 in Skopje) is the Secretary-General of

Liberal International and a former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Macedonia (2004-2006). He has also served as a
former President of the International Federation of Liberal
Youth (IFLRY) and has held numerous positions in the Council of
Europe, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and
the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (publically financed German
foundation promoting liberalism and individual freedom). Kirjas holds a
Master's degree in Geopolitics from King's College London and is
fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Serbo-Croatian.

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Beatriz De Candolle, Member of Parliament (Switzerland)

Mrs. De Candolle trained as a journalist and has been an active member of

the Geneva Liberal Party since 1994.She was elected as a Mayor of
Chne-Bourg in 2003, where she is in charge of security and prevention,
environment, public works and information. She joined the Geneva
Parliament in 2005. She is active in several parliamentary committees
including Human Rights.

Khodr Habib, Member of Parliament (Lebanon)

Mr. Habib is a Member of the Lebanese Parliament

representing the Future Movement Party (Al-Mustaqbal)
and has previously served as an Ambassador of Lebanon
to the Republic of Guinea (2006-2008). He has a
bachelors degree in international business management
from the Central State University of Oklahoma in the
United States of America. He is the owner of H.P.C: a
company for import, export and distribution of oil
derivatives and H.P.C.C: a company for contracting and construction in Tripoli. He served as a
member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Tripoli and the north
from 1995 to 2006. He is currently a Member of the Lebanese Chambers Federation and the
Lebanese American Commerce Chamber. He is fluent in Arabic and English and French.

Andrija Popovi, Member of Parliament (Montenegro)

Mr. Popovic was born in Kotor on 22 September 1959. He is the

founder of the Liberal Party of Montenegro and currently its
President. He has been a Member of the Montenegrin Parliament
since 2012. He is also one of the most successful Montenegrin
athletes of all-times. As a member of "Primorac" Kotor, among
other things, he won the gold medal with the Yugoslavian water
polo team at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, the
World Cup in Madrid in 1986, the Mediterranean Games in
Casablanca in 1983, and the silver medal at the Universiade
European Championships. On a club level he is the winner of two
European champions Cups: one in 1989 and one in 1990. He was declared as the best athlete of
Montenegro in 1985. He served as a secretary of the sports and recreation center "Kotor". He is
currently the Vice President of the Montenegrin Olympic Committee and President of the Club of
Montenegrin Olympians. Popovic was a member of the Council of the European Movement for

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Independent Montenegro at the state and municipal level. In few mandates he was elected as a
member in the Municipal Assembly of Kotor.

Karamoko Yayoro, Member of Parliament (Cote dIvoire)

Mr. Yayoro is a Member of Parliament from the Rally of the Republicans

Party (RDR) in Cote dIvoire. He is also the President of the youth wing of
the RDR party.

Ibrahima Bah, Head of UFDG Branch in Geneva (Guinea/ Switzerland)

Mr. Bah is the head of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea - UFDG in Switzerland. He
coordinates all activities and ensures that the party is well established in the country. He is also
responsible for fundraising campaigns and has helped raised money to help victims of violence in
Guinea. He worked as a Logistics and Project Manager for NGOs in the Geneva area. After working
for the Young and Rubicon Group in Geneva as a Coordinator in the finance department, he is now
working as a part-time accountant for various placement agencies. Moreover he volunteers by
offering private maths and accounting classes to high school students. Very active in the community
where he serves as Vice president of the Guinean Association in Geneva, he helps his countrymen
who are newcomers to the country to better establish and integrate themselves within Geneva and
countrywide. He holds an MBA in Management and Service Engineering from the Haute Ecole
Spcialise de Suisse Occidentale.

Floris Jan Donders, IFLRY Human Rights Programme Manager (The Netherlands)

As a member of Jonge Democraten (youth wing of the social-liberal

D66 party in the Netherlands) Mr. Jan Donders has been active on
a regional and national level in various different positions. Within
the International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY), he has been
a part of the Jonge Democraten delegations for several years
before becoming programme manager for the IFLRY Human Rights
programme in early 2014. The main aim of this programme is to
incorporate human rights into the youth politics discourse, so as to
reach a human rights-based approach to youth politics. Mr. Jan
Donders also works for the Dutch provincial government of Brabant
as one of the governors advisors, but from July onwards he will be
moving to the foreign affairs department.