Aleksandar Vučić

President, Republic of Serbia

President of the Republic of Serbia as of 2017. Previously served as the Prime Minister of Serbia 2014-2016 and Minister of Defense and the First Deputy Prime Minister, in 2012. As of September 2013, he held the position of the First Deputy Prime Minister, in charge of fighting crime and corruption. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

Andrea Földi-Kovács

journalist, recipient of Mihály Táncsics Prize, Hungary

Andrea Földi-Kovács is a journalist, recipient of the Mihály Táncsics Prize. She started her career at Hír Televízió television channel. During the decade she spent at the channel, she first made news reports, then investigative reports, made her debut on screen as a news anchor, then became the permanent host of multiple prime-time TV programmes on politics and public life. From 2015, she worked for the public service media, as presenter of the ”Tonight” (Ma este) programme on current political topics. From 2017, she was the face of the Echo Tv’s Current Daily (Echo Tv Napi Aktuális) programme. At this channel, she also started her own Christian public life programme in December 2017, called Terce (Terc), which she continued to edit and present at Hír TV renamed as CREDO, while also holding the same roles in her current political programme (Hungary, live—Magyarország élőben) until she left the channel in 2021. Since 2019, she has also been a communications consultant and a trainer. As a supporter of ProLife movements in Hungary, she also regularly expresses her opinion as a private person on topics of conservative feminism, and freedom of conscience and religion. She has been curator of the Hungary-based Safe Society Foundation.

Andrej Babiš

Prime Minister, Czech Republic

Andrej Babiš (born 1954) graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava, in the field of Foreign Trade. In 1993, Mr. Babiš founded the agrochemical holding company Agrofert of which he was CEO until he entered politics.

Since 2012 Mr. Babiš has led the political party ANO 2011, for which he was elected to the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the national elections in 2013. As a member of the governing coalition from 2013 to 2017 Mr. Babiš served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance. He pushed through a number of groundbreaking tax reforms and significantly cut down the national debt of the Czech Republic.

On December 6th, 2017 Mr. Babiš was appointed Prime Minister of the Czech Republic after ANO 2011 won a landslide victory in the 2017 Parliamentary election. As Prime Minister, Mr. Babiš and ANO 2011 has set out a number priorities such as security, the increase in wages and pensions, the lowering of taxes, a robust health system and massive investment into the infrastructure of the Czech Republic, especially the road network.

On an international level, Mr. Babiš has been a vocal critic of illegal migration into Europe. Together with the Prime Minister of Hungary, Mr. Viktor Orbán, he vetoed E.U. proposals for establishing a system of permanent relocation quotas for migrants arriving to Europe. Mr. Babiš has maintained that Europe must actively protect its external borders, and that the Czech Republic must decide for itself, who will work and live within its borders.

Anna Nagy

President, Single Parent Families’ Foundation, Hungary

Journalist, communication expert, ex-government spokesperson, the founder and head of the Single Parents’ Centre of Budapest.

Her commitment in the NGO sector started in 2005. After having worked for decades in the media, in government communication and in the business sector, she has been fully involved in the non-profit sector since 2017. She founded Hungary’s first single parents’ centre, which supports and represents one parent families. In Hungary more than half a million children are raised with only one parent.

Anna is the mother of a 20-year-old son.

Prof. Dr. Balázs Győrffy

Professor, Head of Department of Bioinformatics, Semmelweis University, Hungary

Prof. Dr Balázs Győrffy studied at Semmelweis University and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, and did his PhD at Semmelweis University in 2005. After this he conducted research at Harvard University and the Charité in Berlin. He mainly focuses on biostatistics and bioinformatics, moreover, he develops internet-based database-analysis systems. He has been the head of the Department of Bioinformatics at Semmelweis University since January 2020.

Balázs Molnár

Vice-President for Strategy and Coordination Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families

Balázs Molnár is married, father of three children, lawyer, diplomat. Between 2016-2018 he served as Deputy State Secretary for European Affairs of the Prime Minister's Office. 2012-2016 he worked as a family and social affairs attaché at the Hungarian Permanent Representations to the European Union in Brussels. Between 2010-2011 he was a presidency diplomat at the Permanent representation of Hungary to the United Nations in Vienna. 2001-2010 he worked as a public servant responsible for drug prevention.

Dr. Balázs Orbán

Deputy Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, Hungary

He started his career in the Ministry of Justice and Police in 2009. From 2013, he worked as a research director at the Századvég Foundation (economic research institute) where he was responsible for public law and politics research. Between 2015 and 2018 he was director of the Migration Research Institute established by Századvég Foundation and Mathias Corvinus Collegium, and associate lecturer at Metropolitan University. In 2020, he became President of the Board of Trustees of the Collegium. Since 2018, he has been Deputy Minister and Secretary of State for Parliament and Strategy at the Prime Minister's Office, and Political Director of the Prime Minister since 2021.

dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau

President, International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN), Kingdom of the Netherlands (tbc)

Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau is President and Rector of ITI Catholic
University, near Vienna, Austria and Professor for Philosophy of Law and
Education. He presides over the International Catholic Legislators Network
(ICLN), which he founded in 2010 to provide Catholic and other Christian
politicians with (faith) formation, fellowship and networking opportunities.

Dr. Csaba Kandrács

Vice President, Hungarian National Bank, Hungary

Dr Csaba Kandrács has been Deputy Governor of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) responsible for financial supervision and consumer protection since 2 October 2019. From June 2016 until his appointment as Deputy Governor, he was Executive Director of the MNB responsible for financial supervision and consumer protection. Between 2014 and 2016 he was President and CEO of the Hungarian Restructuring and Debt Management Company (MARK Zrt.). Previously, he was External Member of the MNB’s Monetary Council, Director of the Bank’s Banking Operations Directorate and Member of the MNB’s Supervisory Board. His previous position was Chairman of the Hungarian State Treasury. He also worked as Ministerial Commissioner and as Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry for National Economy. From 2009 until 2012 he was Head of the Finance Division of the 5th District Municipality of Budapest. From 2003 he has worked as Executive at the National Office for Programme Licence of the Ministry of Finance Ministry. Since 2016 he has been Member of the EBA's ( European Banking Authority) Board of Supervisors, and since 2017 Member of the Group of Banking Supervisors from Central and Eastern Europe.

Dan Schneider

Executive Director, American Conservative Union, United States

Dan Schneider has been Executive Vice President of The American Conservative Union (ACU) since 2014. Through his leadership, ACU has expanded its reach both domestically and internationally through the growth of ACU’s flagship Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the DC area. During Dan’s tenure, ACU has held dozens of specialized, thematic CPACs in America, and hosted nearly 20 international CPACs in Japan, Israel, Australia, Brazil, South Korea and other nations. Dan has also overseen the advent of various policy centers focused on elevating conservativism in the areas of criminal justice reform, property rights, foreign policy, national security, and human rights. He is passionate about conservatism which he defines as “the political philosophy that sovereignty resides in the person.” He also believes deeply in the unique American experiment which daily tests the proposition whether people can govern themselves.

Enikő Ujvári

Vice President, Three Princes, Three Princesses Movement, Hungary

Vice President of the Három Királyfi, Három Királylány Mozgalom (Three Princes, Three Princesses Movement) and founder and leader of the Balance (between work and life) Programme, HR specialist. She joined the movement in 2009 as the mother of two little girls. She focuses on the balance between work and life, the (re)integration of women into the labour market, family-friendly corporate solutions, the subject of atypical and flexible employment, the change in management attitudes and perspectives brought about by digitalisation and flexibility, and the promotion of employer-employee partnerships.

She constructs the Balance Programme from the first ideas, the most important results of which are the Balance COMMUNITY, joined by about 600 active companies from all over the country, the "Family-Friendly Company of the Year" award and the Family-Friendly Company Gala. Between 2013 and 2020, the programme makes life easier for 110,000 employees and their families at 94 qualified companies, whose work also has been supported by Family-Friendly Company-Mentor Organizations since 2016.

Frank Füredi

Academic, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent

Dr. Frank Furedi, author and social commentator is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Senior Research Fellow at XXIst Century Institute, Budapest.

Author of more than 25 books, Furedi’s studies have been devoted to an exploration of the cultural developments in western societies. In recent years he has published several studies on the impact of the Culture Wars on family life, socialisation, education and public life. His study, Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn The Art of Drawing Boundaries (2020) discusses the cultural underpinnings of the contemporary climate of intolerance towards the values of western civilisation. His most recent book, 100 Years of Identity Crisis, (2021) argues that it disrupts the socialisation of young people and encourages the estrangement of generations from one another.

Gatis Eglitis

Minister for Welfare since 3rd June 2021. In 2018 elected to the Latvian Parliament. Extensive work experience, incl. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission. Studied at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Johns Hopkins University in Bologna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

Gergely Ekler

State Secretary for Family Policy Strategy, Hungary

Gergely Ekler was born in 1978 in Zalaegerszeg. He graduated in English and History at the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University in 2004. He is married and father of two children.
From 2005, he was President of the National Conference of Student Governments, and from 2007, editor of the educational and psychological column of the popular Hungarian science periodical Élet és Tudomány (Life and Science) for a year. He then worked as a senior executive and consultant in the management of several companies. In May 2016, he took over the management of the back office of the State Secretariat for Family and Youth Affairs, implementing body of Snétberger Programme, one of the most important talent programmes in Hungary. Soon, he also became the executive of the New Generation Centre (Új Nemzedék Központ) implementing youth and talent projects. Since June 2018, he has been Head of Cabinet and Head of Secretariat of the Secretary of State for Family and Youth Affairs. Since October 2020, he has been the State Secretary for Family Policy Strategy of the Minister without Portfolio. His mission is to support and strengthen Hungarian families.

Dr. Gergely Szilvay

author, researcher, Rubicon Institute, Hungary

Dr Gergely Szilvay (1983) is a senior fellow journalist at Mandiner, a scientific member of the Rubicon Institute and member of the editorial board of the European Conservative magazine. He graduated in history and communication at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, where he then obtained his PhD in political theory. He completed the accredited folk tale storytelling course of Heritage House. His first book – which was also his dissertation – , Same Sex Marriage: Arguments Pro and Contra was published by Századvég publishing house in 2016. His second book, The Criticism of Gender Theory, was published in 2020 by the Center for Fundamental Rights.

Gladden Pappin, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Dallas, United States

Five-sentence introduction: Gladden Pappin is a visiting senior fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest. A leading advocate of family policy in the United States, he has published widely on family policy there and Europe. He cofounded the quarterly political journal American Affairs in 2017, and is an associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas. He is also a senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He received his bachelor’s degree in history and his PhD in government, both from Harvard.

Hunor Kelemen

Deputy Prime Minister of Romania; President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania

Deputy Prime Minister of Romania; President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania. A graduate of veterinary medicine, then philosophy, he founded a cultural journal and worked as a radio programme editor of political and cultural shows right after the regime change in Romania. His literary works were published by multiple media outlets in Romania and Hungary too.
He entered politics in 1997, as Secretary of State in the Romanian Government’s Ministry of Culture. He served as Minister of Culture and Deputy Prime Minister, he is also currently a Member of Parliament.
Since 2011, he is the President of the organisation which has been protecting Hungarians’ interest for 31 years in the Romanian Parliament, municipalities and—from time to time—in the Government, thanks to the confidence of the community.
He considers dialogue to be the base for politics and safeguarding the Hungarian interest, and he consistently stresses that Hungarians in Romania are not a threat, but an opportunity, they do not want to take away from Romania, but build a future together with the majority of the nation.

Ignacio Socias

Director of Communication and International Relations of the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD)

Ignacio Socias is a Ph. D. in Law by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is Director of International Relations of the International Federation for Family Development, an umbrella organization for more than 250 Family Enrichment Centers that operates in 70 countries, benefits over 90,000 people annually and has been granted reclassification of the consultative status at ECOSOC from special to general, a situation granted to only 3% of the organizations working with the United Nations.

His job involves the design, team coordination and direction of activities: with United Nations ECOSOC, UNICEF, UN Women and other agencies; in the European Union, through its participation in research and dissemination programmes, as well as negotiation and intermediation with European Parliament members and intergroups; with local, regional and national governments of the countries where the Federation operates, sending regular information on family policies research and good practices, and evidence-based and result-oriented consultancy. He has chaired the NGO Committee on UNICEF in New York (2019-2021) and been part of the Executive Committee as an observer.
He has coordinated the Global Project ‘SDGs and Families’ from 2014 to 2019, with the participation of experts from the five continents and the support of UNICEF and UN DESA, to help policymakers to understand the role of families the 2030 Sustainable Agenda, as well as provide support in assessing how public policy decisions can directly and indirectly affect family and child well-being. He has also promoted since 2016 the Global Project on ‘Inclusive Cities for Sustainable Families’, alliance of Cities from all over the world that aim to be responsive to urban family’s needs, according to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, specifically goals 1-5.

He has also represented IFFD in the FamiliesAndSocieties 7FP European Commission Project (2013-2017), the biggest European research on families, and has been part of different high-level events on family at the European Parliament (2013 and 2014), Committee of the Regions (2012) and Economic and Social Committee (2014, 2015 and 2017).

Imants Parādnieks

Advisor of the Prime Minister, Republic of Latvia

Mr. Imants Parādnieks
Former Member of Parliament and currently Adviser to the Prime Minister on Demography, Head of the Expert Cooperation Platform "Center for Demographic Affairs".
Imants is about implementing innovative ideas and learning best practices. Author, developer, and implementer of several Latvian family support programs.
As an experienced politician, father, and grandfather Imants understand and advocate for the well-being of children, emotional comfort, and meeting their development needs.
Family support policymaker and promoter in the parliament and the government. An active fighter for families, strengthening and honoring family values!

Jaime Mayor Oreja

Former Minister of the Interior and Former Member of the European Parliament, President of One of Us Federation, Kingdom of Spain

Jaime Mayor Oreja. He was born in San Sebastián in 1951, is married and has four children. He is an Agronomist Engineer.
He has been Minister of the Interior of the Government of Spain (1996 - 2000), MEP and head of the list for the Popular Party to the European Parliament (2004-2014). He was previously a candidate for Lendakari and president of the Popular Party in the Basque Country, where he stood out for the fight against ETA terrorism and the defense of the victims.
He is currently President of the European Federation “One of Us” and of the Transatlantic Forum “Political Network for Values”.
Especially concerned about the crisis of values that presides over European societies, he has promoted the creation of this foundation that he currently presides, called "Values and Society".

Janez Cigler Kralj

Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Republic of Slovenia

Janez Cigler Kralj is Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the Republic of Slovenia. He holds a master’s degree in political sciences from the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana. Prior to his political career he worked for a media company and the national scholarship fund. Between 2012 and 2020, he worked as a senior advisor for the political group of Nova Slovenija – Christian democrats (NSi) in the national assembly. He also presided the NSi employee association. A father of four, he is a former scout leader and active in several associations.

Janez Janša

Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia

Janez Janša 2020 márciusától tölti be Szlovénia miniszterelnöke. Ezt a tisztséget 2004 és 2008, valamint 2012 és 2013 között is betöltötte. Az 1990 és 1994 közötti időszakban, illetve 2000-ben honvédelmi miniszterként szolgált. 1993 óta a Szlovén Demokrata Párt (SDS) elnöke, és jelenleg a CDI-IDC alelnöke. 2008-ban az EU Tanácsának elnöki tisztét töltötte be; 2021-ben ő vezeti az EU Tanács szlovén elnökségét.

Janez Janša szlovén miniszterelnök beszédet mond a IV. Budapesti Demográfiai csúcson. Felvázolja a globális demográfiai folyamatok dinamikáját, az ügy stratégiai fontosságát és annak következményeit hangsúlyozva. Sőt, Európára összpontosítva, a migrációról, mint az európai demográfiai probléma nem megfelelő megoldásáról fog szólni. Végül hangsúlyozza a körültekintő és holisztikus családpolitika szükségességét, amely arra ösztönzi az európaiakat, hogy több gyermeket vállaljanak.

Julija Stepanenko

parlamenti képviselő, a lett parlament alelnöke, Lett Köztársaság

A mother of four children, a lawyer and a politician since 2014. Ever since the first day in office my concern has been - strengthtening the conservative values in this changing world. I am an author of significant amendments in the Educaion Law that provides for moral education based on family values and a member of initiative team for referendum on family definition. I am the co-founder of a new political party, based on christian values and strong demography solutions for Latvia.

Karl-Heinz B. van Lier

Managing Director, Foundation for Family Values, Federal Republic of Germany

Das wohlhabende Deutschland hat über Jahrzehnte die niedrigste Geburtenrate der Welt und weist damit eine überalterten Gesellschaft auf.
Trotzdem scheint für die Mehrheit der deutschen Parteien eine ausgeglichene Bevölkerungsstruktur nicht systemrelevant zu sein. Deutschland hat den demografischen Wandel zur Beruhigung aller in eine demografische Chance verwandelt.
Diese besteht darin, dass nicht die Mehrheitsgesellschaft Kinder bekommt, sondern dass wir in massenhafter Zuwanderung eine Bereicherung sehen.
Fazit: Das Fehlen von Fachkräften in allen Sparten der Wirtschaft und Dienstleistung zeigt uns heute schon, dass wir uns wegen fehlenden Humankapitals und sinkender Innovationskraft bereits im Begriff sind uns von der Position einer führenden Wirtschafts- nation zu verabschieden.

Katalin Bogyay

President, United Nations Association of Hungary, Hungary

Katalin Gyurkó Kardosné

President, National Association of Large Families, Hungary

Economist and entrepreneurial manager, mother of five children. President of the National Association of Large Families since 2016, previously a Secretary General of the Association. During her presidential tenure, membership nearly three-folded, and various initiatives have been launched, including the Baby Welcome programme, the Taste of love programme, which aim to support the joy of motherhood and individual family farming, while families also support each other. Katalin Gyurkó Kardosné is also head of the professional programme entitled Family Organisations' Conference, and launched a book series on topics concerning large families, having children and family life.

Katalin Novák

Minister for Families, Hungary

Katalin Novák is Minister for Families of the Hungarian Government, Member of Parliament, Vice-president and International Secretary of Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Alliance. She is mother of three children.
She has been representing the cause of Hungarian families, youth and the elderly as State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs since 2014 and as Minister since 2020. As a mother and as an officer responsible for the demographic aspirations of the Hungarian government, her aim is to facilitate the birth of desired children, strengthen families raising children and support young people about to start a family. As a female politician, she considers it extremely important to ensure that women do not have to choose between starting their families and pursuing their professional careers.
She has initiated and worked on several projects and measures, including the announcement of the Year of Families in 2018, the biennial Budapest Demographic Summit, the development of internationally recognized opportunities such as the baby-expecting subsidy, the PIT exemption for mothers with four children, the Housing Programme, the programme aimed at developing nurseries, along with others.
In addition to her governmental activities, she is President of the Political Network for Values and Vice-president of the International Women's Democrat Union.
She has received several foreign and domestic awards for her work. Amongst other acknowledgements she was awarded the Commander's Cross of Valour of the Republic of Poland, the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour of France, and Saint Thomas More Award.

Kinga Gál

Member of the European Parliament, Hungary

Kinga Gál has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004, and she was the first vice-president of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) between 2007 and 2019. As a mother of four children, her personal goal is to represent family as a value and make it fashionable on the floor of European politics. The National Association of Large Families (NOE) received the European Citizen's Prize in 2018 for the proposal she submitted together with György Hölvényi. Kinga Gál was awarded the NOE Prize in 2020 for her extraordinary dedication and work for families, especially for large families.

Dr. László Palkovics

Minister, Ministry for Innovation and Technology, Hungary

Dr. László Palkovics graduated from the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) as an engineer. He also worked at BME, at the Kecskmét College and the Széchenyi István University. Dr. Palkovics also gained experience at a wide range of areas when he became the development director of Knorr-Bremse in Hungary. Previously, he also served as Minister of State for Education at the Ministry of Human Resources and was appointed Minister of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology of Hungary in May 2018.
As Government Commissioner, his responsibilities include:
-coordination of tasks in connection with Act XXIV of 2016 on the promulgation of the Treaty between the Government of Hungary and the Government of the Peoples' Republic of China about the Development, Construction and Financing of the Hungarian Section of the Budapest-Belgrade Railway Line
- sustainable economic, educational and cultural development of the Debrecen automotive centre and its surroundings, development of motorsports and handling traffic safety as a priority
- complex development of the Northeast Hungary Economic Development Zone
- realisation of the Budapest Student City and establishment of the working conditions for the higher education institution to be established with the participation of the Fudan University (hereinafter referred to as Fudan Hungary University)
-preparation for the acquisition of majority ownership by the state over the Budapest Airport Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Operator Private Limited Company.

Lorenzo Fontana

former Minister for Family and Disability, Republic of Italy

Lorenzo Fontana is the Deputy Secretary of Lega - Salvini Premier, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department of the party and a Member of the Italian Parliament. He previously served as Minister for the Family and Disabilities and as Minister for European Affairs for the 65th government of the Republic of Italy. Mr Fontana holds degrees in Political Science, in History and in Philosophy. He is the author of the book « The empty cradle of civilization. At the origin of the crisis » on the subject of demographic decline in Italy.

Madeleine Wallin

General Secretary, European Federation of Parents and Carers at Home, Kingdom of Sweden

Madeleine Wallin is General Secretary of the European Federation of Parents and Caregivers at Home (FEFAF) as well as the International Coordinator and Board Member for Haro: she previously served as President of both organizations. In her work at FEFAF and Haro, she advocates freedom of choice and equality for parents in Swedish family politics and wants to raise awareness about children's needs and the importance of motherhood. She is a mother of five children.

Marion Maréchal

Director-General, Institut des sciences sociales, économiques et politiques (ISSEP), Republic of France

Elected at the age of 22, Marion Maréchal was a French deputy from 2012 to 2017.In 2015, she ran in the regional elections to run for the presidency of the Provence Alpes Côtes d'Azur region and then became the leader of the first opposition group. In 2018, she co-founded a private higher school of political science and management in Lyon, where she has been the general director ever since.

Prof. Dr. Mária Schmidt

Director-General, House of Terror Museum, Hungary

Prof Dr Mária Schmidt is a Széchenyi Prize awarded historian. She is the Director General of the Public Foundation for Research on Central and Eastern European History and Society. Since 2010 she has been a university professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She attended and has visited universities all around the world with postgraduate scholarships and as a visiting professor. Schmidt was Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister between 1998 and 2002. Previously she was the Government Commissioner of the Memorial Year of the 1956 Revolution and of the coordination of the commemorations of the First World War. Since 2019 she has been Government Commissioner of the coordination of the "Free for 30 years" memorial year commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1989-90 change of regime. She is the author of several historical books.

Michael A. Blume

Archbishop, Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary

H.E. Archbishop Michael A. Blume, titular Archbishop of Alessano,
currently Apostolic Nuncio in Hungary, was born in South Bend (Indiana)
United States of America, on 30 May 1946;
December 23, 1972: Ordained priest of Society of the Divine Word (Verbite
Religious);
Licentiate in Theologyat the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome);
- 1975-1983: Professor of Theology at the Regional Seminary of Cape Coast,
in Ghana;
- 1983-1990: Provincial of Society of the Divine Wordin Ghana, Benin and
Togo;
- 1990-1994: General Secretary of the Societyof-the Divine Word (Roma);
- 1995-2000: Served at Refugee Desk of the Pontifical Councili for Migrants
and Itinerants (Vatican City);
- 2000-2005: Appointed Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the
Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants (Vatican City);
- 2005-2013: Appointed titular Archbishop of Alessano and Apostolic
Nuncio to Benin and Togo;
- 2013-2018: Appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Uganda
- July 4, 2018: Appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary
Languages spoken: English, French, Italian and German.

Prof. Dr. Michał A. Michalski

Assistant Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University, Republic of Poland

Michał A. Michalski (born 1975), Ph.D. prof. of Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland), president of the Institute for Family and Society Studies Foundation, member of the Family Council at the Polish Ministry of Family and Social Policy and head of Center for Family and Demographic Research at Collegium Intermarium (Warsaw). Expert in economic culture and family policy. Author of the book The role of family for intergenerational transmission of economic culture, in 2021 co-author of two research reports: Costs of family and marriage breakdown in Poland and Family-responsive policies in private companies in Poland, gave opening lecture at the Meeting of Ministries of Family and Social Policy of Vysehrad Group (V4) in February 2021 on Strategic role of pro-family policy for socio-economic development.

Mike Pence

the 48th Vice President of the United States of America

Mike Pence is the former Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana, and a former Congressman. In all of these roles, Pence helped make government smaller and more effective, reduce spending, and return power to state and local governments. He attended Hanover College and Indiana University School of Law, the latter being where he met his wife, Karen. Pence, a proud father of three, was raised to believe in the importance of hard work, faith, and family. Vice President Mike Pence remains grateful for the grace of God, the love and support of his family, and the blessings of liberty that are every American’s birthright

dr. Miklós Szánthó

Director of the Center for Fundamental Rights

Dr. Miklós Szánthó is a lawyer, political analyst. He has been the Director of the Center for Fundamental Rights, Hungary since its foundation in 2013. He has been a member of the board of the Central European Press and Media Foundation since 2018 and serves as the chairman of the board since 2019. He is the co-author and co-editor of numerous legal and political publications and books, and he is a frequent speaker at international conferences and political shows. He believes both in his personal life and professional work in the sanctity of God, nation and the family.

In recognition of his high-quality work as a legal and political analyst, as well as his publications in Hungarian and foreign languages, President János Áder awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit to Director Szánthó in March 2021. He is married and the father of a daughter and a son

Milan Krajniak

Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Slovak Republic

Milan Krajniak has been the Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic since March 2020. He studied political science at University Ss.Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. During 2010-2012 he acted as an Advisor to the Minister of Interior. He was a Chairman of the National Council’s Committee for Reviewing of the Decisions of the National Security Authority, Member of the Committee for Defence and Security. His priorities are Social Economy, Pension System and Family Policy.

Milorad Dodik

Serbian Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

He was born on March 12, 1959 in Banja Luka.
He finished elementary school in Laktasi, and high school in Banja Luka . He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences , University of Belgrade.
In the period from 1986 to 1990, as the youngest official of the then SFRY, he performed extremely successfully several important functions in the Municipality of Laktasi, including the function of the President and the Executive Board of the Municipality.
He performed the duty of the Prime Minister until October 2010, when he received convincing support and trust from voters, and was elected President of the Republika Srpska. After winning the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 12, 2014, as the first in the history of the Republika Srpska, he was elected President of the Republic for the second time.
In the general elections in BiH in 2018, he was elected to the position of the Serbian member of the Presidency of BiH.
He is married, the father of two children. He has six grandchildren.

Nicola Speranza

Secretary General, Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE), Kingdom of Belgium

Secretary General of the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE) since 2017, Nicola Speranza was its Policy Officer between 2014 and 2017. He previously trained at the EU Delegation to the OECD and the UNESCO, graduated in European Affairs and International Relations at 'Sciences Po' Strasbourg and at the Catholic Institute of Paris (France). He holds a Bachelor Degree in History from the European University of Rome (Italy).

Obianuju Ekeocha

biomedical scientist, author of Target Africa, Nigeria

Obianuju Ekeocha is an internationally acclaimed strategist, speaker, author, social activist and documentary filmmaker.

She was born and raised in southeastern Nigeria.
She is the founder and president of Culture of Life Africa , an organization dedicated to the promotion of an authentic Culture of Life in Africa and beyond.
She is the author of Target Africa: Ideological Neocolonialism of the Twenty-First Century (once an Amazon bestseller published by Ignatius Press and now translated and republished in Spain and Saudi Arabia) and she is the Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary Strings Attached.
Ms Ekeocha has advised many African, European and North American legislators and political influencers on issues concerning African women’s health, youth, families, healthcare, foreign aid, education, and culture.
She has also worked closely with religious leaders across the African continent and has co-authored a number of pro-life declarations with different African Catholic episcopal conferences.
She has planned, organized and facilitated many major pro-life conferences, strategic seminars and March for Life rallies in various African countries.
Obianuju has travelled the world extensively speaking in more than 65 cities across 24 countries.

She has been welcomed as a guest speaker at many high profile meetings and events including policy briefings at the White House, the US State Department and a number of Parliaments around the world including the European Parliament.
She also frequently addresses her concerns at various United Nations conferences and events.

She is also very active and effective on various social media platforms, reaching more than a hundred of thousand followers every day. She has been featured by numerous broadcast networks, including BBC television and radio, Al Jazeera TV, EWTN television and radio, Ave Maria Radio, and Relevant Radio.
Consistent with her love for the wonder of life, Obianuju also currently works as a Specialist Biomedical Scientist in the United Kingdom.
Prior to her current position, she was a Medical Laboratory Scientist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital. She holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Science from the University of East London and a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from the University of Nigeria.

Prof. Dr. Petra Aczél

Director, Institute of Communication and Sociology of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Professor Dr. Petra Aczél is a communication researcher university professor, director of the Institute of Communication and Sociology in Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research field focuses on classical and modern rhetoric, family communication and the new media and media literacy, of which she is a teacher, researcher, scientific organiser and practitioner. Author of four and co-writer of five books, she has published more than two hundred academic-professional publications and studies in Hungarian and in English. She is the head of the KINCS Family Science College, a family research workshop established in 2020 by the Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS).

Péter Kondor

Bishop of the Southern Evangelical Church, Hungary

Born in Szeged, in 1968, Péter Kondor was serving as a pastor in multiple locations after his graduation from the Evangelical Theological Academy. From 2000, he was the Dean of the Eastern Békés Diocese, then in 2018, he was appointed as bishop of the Southern Evangelical Church of Hungary and President of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary. His most important mission is to convey the Good News of Christ, while simultaneously building a fellowship characterised by trust, mobilising and bringing to the surface the values that are already present in pastors and the congregation when carrying out his service. As bishop, he is also responsible for the diaconal work, Péter Kondor is working towards deepening the constructive dialogue and strengthening the social engagement of churches in agreement with the government.

Philip Blond

Philosopher, Director of the ResPublica think-tank, United Kingdom

Phillip is an internationally recognised political thinker and social and economic commentator. He bridges the gap between politics and practice, offering strategic consultation and policy formation to governments, businesses and organisations across the world. He founded ResPublica in 2009 and is an academic, journalist and author. Prior to entering politics and public policy, he was a senior lecturer in theology and philosophy, teaching at the Universities of Exeter and Cumbria. He is the author of Red Tory (Faber and Faber 2010), which sought to redefine the centre ground of British politics around the ideas of civil association, mutual ownership and shared enterprise.
His ideas have strongly influenced the agenda around devolution and public services, and have helped to redefine British and international politics. Phillip’s recent reports, such as Restoring Britain’s City States: Devolution, public service reform and local economic growth (2015), The Missing Multipliers: Devolution to Britain’s Key Cities (2015), and Devo Max – Devo Manc: Place-based public services (2014), have driven policy change in city deals and health devolution.
He has written extensively in the British and foreign press including The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, the Financial Times, Prospect, the New Statesman and The New York Times. As a renowned speaker and communicator, Phillip is a frequent broadcaster, appearing on the BBC and Sky as well as in foreign media. Through both his writing and speaking, he argues for a new economic and social politics based around free association and group formation, new forms of capitalisation and market entry

Róbert Zsigó

Deputy Minister for Families, Hungary

Róbert Zsigó has been an individually elected member of the Parliament for Baja and its region since 1998. He is the former mayor of Baja. Between 2014 and 2020 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture. He has been Parliamentary State Secretary for families since October 2020. He is married and the father of three adult children.

Sharon Slater

President, Family Watch International, United States

Sharon Slater is the president of Family Watch International, a nonprofit organization in consultative status with the United Nations (FamilyWatch.org). She also chairs the UN Family Rights Caucus (UNFRC.org) and is a consultant to multiple UN Member States on family, life and human sexuality policy issues. Sharon is the author of the book “Stand for the Family: A Call to Responsible Citizens Everywhere,” and serves on the board of the Political Network for Values. Sharon has directed multiple widely acclaimed documentaries (see at familywatch.org/videos) including “The War on Children: The Comprehensive Sexuality Education Agenda” (See at StopCSE.org), “Cultural Imperialism: The Sexual Rights Agenda” and “Porn Pandemic: The Devastating Impact on Marriage, Children and Families,” and a series of videos on transgender issues (See at transgenderissues.org) Sharon and her husband Greg have seven children (three of whom are siblings adopted from Mozambique) and fourteen grandchildren.

Slomó Köves

Chief Rabbi, Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation

Slomó Köves (born in 1979 in Budapest) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH) and Chief Rabbi of the Hungarian Defence Forces. In 2010 the Óbuda Synagogue reopened on his initiative, of which he has been the rabbi ever since. He pursued his religious studies in the most prestigious yeshivas of the world, and obtained his PhD at the University of Debrecen. In 2001 he married Dvora Lea, with whom they have five children.

Tünde Bartha

Head of the Office of the Government, Czech Republic

I have been working as the Chief of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic since 2017 and for the last three years also as the Acting Head of the Office of the Government. My everyday duties range from managing the Prime Minister’s schedule and ensuring that his meetings, including with his foreign counterparts, run smoothly to taking part in Government sessions and running the Office of the Government itself. In my current occupation, I often draw from my experience from the private sector as I had held managerial positions at several companies during my professional life.

Tünde Fűrész

President, Maria Kopp Institute for Demography and Families, Hungary

Tünde Fűrész is an economist with law specialisation, married and mother of three daughters. Since 2010, she has been an active shaper of Hungarian family policy, first as the Head of Department responsible for the field and then as the Deputy Secretary State responsible for Family Policy and Demography. As a Ministerial Commissioner, she was responsible for the transformation of the Hungarian crèche system. Since 2018, she has been the President of the Maria Kopp Institute for Demography and Families.

Varro Vooglaid

Chairman of the Board, Foundation for the Protection of Family and Tradition, Republic of Estonia

Varro Vooglaid is the Chairman of the Management Board of the Foundation for the Protection of Family and Tradition, which is based in Tallinn, Estonia. He has studied law at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and the University of Helsinki (Finland). He has worked as the lecturer of the philosophy of Law at the University of Tartu and is know as one of the main conservative opinion leaders in Estonia. He is married and has eight children.

Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister, Hungary

He is 58 years old, a jurist, studied at Eötvös Lóránd Science University and also political philosophy in Oxford. He has been elected a Member of Parliament in all democratic elections since 1990. President of Fidesz, Vice-President of the Christian Democratic International. In 2018, the Hungarian electors helped Fidesz-KDNP to a third consecutive two-thirds victory, thanks to which he became the Prime Minister of Hungary for the fourth time. He is married, his wife, Anikó Lévai is a jurist. They have five children and five grandchildren.

Dr. iur. Wolfgang Mazal

Director, Institute for Family Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

1959 born in Vienna, 1981 Dr. iur University of Vienna, 1991 Habilitation, 1992 Prof. for Labor Law and Social Security Law, University of Vienna.
Since 1997 Director or deputy Director of the Institute of Labor Law and Social Security law at the University of Vienna, since 2002 President and since 2004 Director of the Austrian Institute for Family Studies an the University of Vienna, since 2016 Distinguished Visiting Professor to Kyoto-University.
Research, Publication, Teaching and Consulting in all Fields of Labor Law, Social Security Law, Medical Law and Topics of Family Life.

Zoltán Balog

Bishop of the Danubian Reformed Church District, Ministerial President of the Synod of the Reformed Church, Hungary

Born in Ózd, on 7 January 1958, Zoltán Balog is married with five children. Since January 2021, he serves as bishop of the Reformed Church Diocese of Dunamellék, since February, he has been the Ministerial President of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary. He studied theology in Debrecen, Budapest, East-Berlin and Halle, graduated from the Reformed Theological Academy in 1983. He was elected pastor of the Budapest-Hold utca Diocese of the RCH between 1996 and 2006 and has been from 2018 onwards. He was Minister of Human Capacities between 2012-2018 (education, culture, church, family policy, social matters, nationality matters, sport). His motto is ”all are yours, and you are of Christ…” (1 Corinthians 3:33-23)

Zsolt Marton

Bishop of Vác, Hungarian Catholic Church

Zsolt Marton graduated as a teacher from the Superior School of Pedagogy in Zsámbék. He pursued his theological studies in Veszprém, in Győr, and then completed them in Budapest. He was ordained a priest in 1998. He served as a parish vicar in Nagykáta, as a parish administrator of Dány and as a parish priest in Göd for 7 years from 2008. Between 2003 and 2008 he was the prefect of studies in the Central Seminary of Budapest, and from 2015 until 2019 was the rector of the Seminary. In 2019 he was ordained the Bishop of Vác by Pope Francis. He is the family bishop of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference. "God is Faithful" (1 Corinthians 10:13) is his motto.

Zsófia Rácz

Deputy State Secretary for Youth Affairs, Hungary

Zsófia Rácz has been working as a Deputy State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs since her appointment in January 2020. While pursuing her law studies, Ms Rácz is also the voice and spokesperson of young people in public administration. Her main goal is to meet and keep in touch with those whose interest she is protecting as her duty. As Deputy State Secretary, Ms Rácz aims to channel as many opinions and needs into decision-making as possible to be able to represent young people’s interests effectively. Previously serving as a UN Youth Delegate, it is not surprising that she is also passionate about—aside from youth policy—environmental proctection and sustainable development.