Since its creation, Ceris has welcomed to its podium prestigious personalities from the world's academia and politics, such as the founder of the "Institut Français des Relations Internationales" and member of French Academy, Thierry de Montbrial (October 1989); the architect of the Prague Spring, Alexander Dubcek  (November 1990); former Romanian Prime Minister, Petre Roman (October 1991); the author of "L'Empire éclaté" and member of French Academy Hélène Carrere d'Encausse (October 1993); Paul Kagame (December 1994), then Rwanda's Vice President whose first visit out of Africa was dedicated to Ceris; historian Bronislaw Geremek (February 1996), who became Poland's Foreign Minister shortly afterwords; prosecutor for the International Courts of former Yuglosavia and Rwanda, Louise Arbour (January 1998); Javier Solana (October 1998), then the Secretary General for NATO; Réginald Moreels (Octobre 2000), then member of the belgian senate, former belgian Minister of International Cooperation (1999) and former President of "Médecin sans frontières - Belgium" (1986-1994); European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen  (March 2002); former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and daughter of the state's founder, Sheikh Hassina (October 2002); President of the Ivory Coast's Workers' Party, candidate for the presidential elections and President of the Ivorian League of the Human Rights, Françis Wodié (May 2003); Robert Cooper (June 2004), Director for External Politico-Military Affairs to the Secretary General of the European Union Council and author of the book that has been translated into several languages: "Dangerous Nation" and "; Ion Iliescu (October 2006), the former Romanian President; Robert Kagan (October 2007), senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of "Dangerous Nation" and "Of Paradise and Power"; Dimitri Rogozin (2008), Russian ambassador to NATO; Riccardo Petrella (2008) Figurehead of the anti-globalization movement; Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (2009),  Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize 2007 with IPCC; Charles Michel (2009), the Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation; Jan Pronk (2010) former Netherlands Minister of Development Cooperation & Environment and Special Representative of the Security General of the UN in Sudan; Srgjan Asan Kerim (2010) former President of the United Nations General Assembly; Sylvestre Ntibantuganya (2010), the former President of Burundi. Ceris is very proud to underline that both Reginald Moreels and Erkki Liikanen have attended the Master of Arts in international politics in the early nineties.