Dhaka, Jan. 10 -- Danilo Turk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. Turk was the first Slovene Ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005. On 11th January, 2020, he will be delivering the keynote address at the next installment of the Cosmos Dialogue's Distinguished Speaker Series.

He is a visiting professor of international law at Columbia University in New York City, a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, and non-resident senior fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin Unive...