Zhaoguang Ge

Chinese historian

Venetia Stanley-Smith

Herbalist

Salahaddin Mohammed Bahaaddin

Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Islamic Union

Gilbert Diatkine

Author

Zohra Ramij

Moroccan writer

Raid Jahid Fahmi

Iraqi Politician

Stephen Blank

Author

Pamela C. B. MacKinnon

Author

Kyōichi Ikeo

Japanese author

Haruki Miyoshi

Japanese physiotherapist

Yasuyoshi Karasawa

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group

Vahed Khakdan

Iranian painter

Ronny Yu

Film director

Ahmet Ersin

Politician

Tian Xiusi

Elvis Musiba

Writer

Sandy Shreve

Canadian poet

Shi Wenbo

Chinese businessman

Zéno Bianu

French poet

Javier Campano

Spanish photographer

Fabienne Barre

Photographer

Mark Doel

Academic

Anu Korb

Estonian folklorist

Tomé Varela da Silva

Cape Verdean writer

Petr Klučina

Historian

Hamid Seddighi

Author

Rick Bauman

Politician

Albert Schmelzer

German professor

Hou Fanfan

Chinese physician

Annette Kur

Author

Detlef Hartlap

Journalist

Zdenka Weber

Music critic

İrfan Demiralp

Politician

Naoki Mizuno

Japanese historian

İbrahim Gürdal

Politician

Takashi Oka

Legal scholar

Allan L Beane

Author

Ken'ichi Noda

Translator

Adel Shams El Din

Musician

Constance DeJong

American visual artist

Jean-Jacques Suurmond

Columnist

Janusz Fogler

Chairman of the Board of Directors of ZAiKS

Peter Della Santina

Author

Martine Havet

Actor

John Hattie

New Zealand educator

Aeoliah

Multi-instrumentalist

Eric Rieth

French author

Melaine Favennec

Vocalist