Ministerial Bioterrorism Exercise

Madeleine Albright, Founder The Albright Group and former U.S. Secretary of State, played the role of the U.S. President

Sir Nigel Broomfield, Former Director of the Ditchley Foundation and former British ambassador to Germany played the British Prime Minister

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway and former Director-General of the World Health Organization, played the Director-General of the World Health Organization

Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament and Former Prime Minister of Poland, played the Prime Minister of Poland

Klaas de Vries, Member of the House of Representatives of the States General and Former Minister of the Interior of the Netherlands played the Dutch Prime Minister

Jan Eliasson, Swedish Ambassador the United States, Former Swedish Deputy Secretary of State and former United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs played the Swedish Prime Minister

Werner Hoyer, Member of the Bundestag and former Minister of State in the
German Foreign Office played the German Chancellor

Bernard Kouchner, Member of the European Parliament, a Founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctor without Borders) and former Minister of Health of France played the French President

Erika Mann, Member of the European Parliament played the president of the European Commission

Barbara McDougall, Advisor and Aird and Berlis and former Canadian Foreign Minister, played the Canadian Prime Minister

Stefano Silvestri, President of the Instituto Affari Internazionali (Institute of International Affairs) in Rome and former Deputy Secretary of Defense played the Italian Prime Minister

In addition, the summit’s executive secretary was played by Eric Chevallier, Associate professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the Ecole Nationale d’Adminstration.

The concluding discussion was moderated by BBC World Television Main Presenter, Nik Gowing.