Women’s Political Participation: Best Practices Workshop

BİLGİ's European Institute hosts a workshop on womens' political participation on 28-29 March 2011.

The workshop is to host

• Viviane Reding, Vice-president and commissioner responsible for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, European Commission (Video Message)
• Dora Bakoyannis, Greece Parliament Member, President of the Democratic Alliance Movement, Greece
• Zita Gurmai, Member of European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (Video Message)
• Agnes Hubert , Adviser, Bureau of European Policy Advisers, European Commission, Brussels
• Pia Locatelli, President, Socialist International Women, Italy
• Güldal Akşit, Member of Parliament, President of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Turkey
• Nevin Gaye Erbatur, Member of Parliament, CHP, Turkey
• Gültan Kışanak, Co-chair, BDP, Turkey
• Feride Acar, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Member of UN CEDAW Committee, Ankara, Turkey
• Fatma Şahin, Member of Turkish Parliament, AKP, Turkey
• Magdalena Andersson, Member of Parliament, Moderate Party, Sweden
• Serpil Çakır, Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul University, Turkey
• Carmen Romero Lopez, Member of the European Parliament from Spain, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
• Şirin Payzın, Anchorwoman, CNNTurk, Turkey
• Selma Acuner, Member of KA.DER Advisory Board and European Womens Lobby Board of Directors , Turkey
• Brigit Triems, President, European Women’s Lobby, Brussels
• Alexandra Cas Granje, Director, DG Enlargement, European Commission, Brussels
• Petra Schott, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities European Commission
• Yeşim Arat, Provost, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
• Petra Schott, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities European Commission
• Çiğdem Aydın, President, KA-DER, Turkey
• Ayşe Böhürler, AKP, Board Member, Turkey
• Gülseren Onanç, CHP, Member of Party Caucus, Turkey
• Anna Karamanou, PES Women Vice-president, Former President of Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee of the European Parliament
Moderator
• Meltem Müftüler Baç, Professor, Jean Monnet Chair, Sabancı University, Turkey
• Hilde Scheidt, Mayor of the city of Aachen, Germany
• Rosa Iervolino Russo, Mayor of the city of Naples, Italy (TBC)
• Pascale Bonniel Chalier, Member of the Municipal Assembly, Grand Lyon, France
• Edibe Şahin, Mayor of the city of Tunceli, Turkey

among other names.

Venue: Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus, Istanbul-Turkey
Room: BS 2