Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Paris (France)
Head of the Department of Central Asian and Caucasian Countries, Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University, (Russia)
University Professor, Harvard University (USA)
Former Deputy Commissioner of the School Climates Committee in charge of Africa
Pdt. of the MED21 program, Chancellor of the World Academy of Poetry, Verona (Italy), former director of Unesco, Paris (France)
University Professor, FBA, FRSE, OBE, Scool of history, St Andrews University
Former CEO at LCP-Assemblée nationale, Member of the Ethics Committee of the Canal+ Group, Paris (France)
University Professor, Uppsala Universitet (Sweden)
Painter/engraver international, Paris (France)
University Professor. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DIRS), (Germany)
Writer and director of documentary films, Paris (France)
University Professor, European University Institute,Firenze, (Italy)
Director, Royal Asiatic Society, London (UK)
Islamologist, CNRS, Paris
University Professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns-Hopkins University, President of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
President of the National Academy of History and Geography of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Associate Professor, College of arts and sciences, University of Georgia (USA)
Director of the National Academy of History of Ecuador, Quito (Ecuador)
Professor of the Department of Political Science, Coordinator of the Research Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Africa, Asia and South-South Relations, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Director of the National Academy of Geography of Argentina, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Honorary Professor, Central American Asia-Pacific Institute, Florida, (USA)
University Professor, Kanto Gakuin, Yokohama, (Japan) University
University Professor, SULTAN SHARIF ALI ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (UNISSA), (Brunei Darussalam)
Director of the departement of Visuals Arts, University of Jordan (Jordan)
University Professor, Dean of The World Sciences & Education University W.I.S.E., Oman, (Jordan)
Maestro international (Dubai/Bahrain)
Counsellor in the Embassy of Senegal in Abu Dhabi, president of foreign relationships Commission of Magal Organization in Touba (Senegal)
Permanent Representative of the African Union to the UN, former Ambassador (Soudan)
President of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Tunis (Tunisia)
Head of the Center for Research on Political, Social and Environmental Changes in the Sahel at Maroua University, (Cameroon)