Plenary Session 3 - Citizen Engagement for Democratic Renewal
6 November 2024 - 16.00-17.30 / Hemicycle, Palais de l’Europe
INTERPRETATION: FR/EN
Introductory Address by Adam BODNAR, Minister of Justice, Poland
Moderator:
Annette Gerlach from Berlin is a bilingual journalist and TV host for ARTE, the European cultural channel she joined when it was founded in 1992. She presents the daily news programme as well as prestigious live music events from La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Paris Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival, and the Savonlinna Festival in Finland. She is also in charge of developing Educ'ARTE and ARTE Campus in Germany, ARTE's educational tools for schools and universities. Annette Gerlach is a regular speaker at conferences, round tables, symposia or award ceremonies for the Council of Europe or the European Parliament, among other institutions and associations. She also does coaching for television and stage presentations.
Alex Taylor is a European journalist. He has produced and presented TV and radio programmes for 30 years, mainly on French TV and radio (France Télévisions, France Inter), but also for international broadcasters (Euronews, TV5 Monde, ARTE, BBC). He was Programme Director for Radio France Internationale in charge of implementing the current 24 hours news format. Parallel to journalism, he has hosted some 1 500 international conferences on a wide variety of topics, especially environmental issues. He has also written a best seller on his passion, languages, of which he speaks (more or less) 7. He also once worked as a camel trainer in a circus.
Panel:
Adam BODNAR, Minister of Justice, Poland
Mehdi JOMAA, Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015) and Club de Madrid Member
Matt Leighninger directs the Center for Democracy Innovation at the National Civic League, one of America’s oldest good governance organizations. He leads the Center’s work in strengthening civic infrastructure, using technology to scale engagement, and measuring the quality of participation and democracy. Matt’s first book, The Next Form of Democracy, is a firsthand account of the wave of democratic innovation that emerged in the 1990s and 2000s. His second, Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy, with Tina Nabatchi, is a guide and textbook that surveys the role and potential of democratic engagement. The Center is currently leading two major projects: “Better Public Meetings,” which is helping communities change the typical (broken) format of their official interactions with residents; and the “Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map,” which is creating a comprehensive dataset and visualizations of all the organizations in America that are working to improve democracy.
Kwasi Prempeh is the executive director of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD), Ghana’s leading democracy and governance think-and-do-tank. He is concurrently the project director for the West Africa Democracy Solidarity Network (WADEMOS), a transnational democracy defense coalition uniting over forty of West Africa’s leading civil society actors. Previously, he was a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School (2003–2015). A 2011 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, he is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany.
Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Leader of the Belarusian democratic forces
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