Opening ceremony of the 2017 GFMD Civil Society Days, with presentations by:
- Wies Maas - Civil Society Chair
- Berenice Valdez Rivera - Civil Society Co-Chair
- Beate Grzeski – GFMD 2017 – 2018 Co-Chair, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, German Federal Foreign Office
- Elke Löbel - Commissioner for refugee policy, Deputy Director-General and Head of the Directorate for displacement and migration; crisis prevention and management, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Bernd Bornhorst - Chair of the Board, VENRO
- Sophie van Haasen - International Catholic Migration Commission (GFMD Civil Society Coordination Office)
