World Forum for Democracy 2021: speakers

Jorge ABRAHÃO Director of Cidades Sustentáveis Brazil

Fikret ADAMAN Professor, Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University Turkey

Ari ALATOSSAVA Mayor of Ii Finland

Alejandra ALFARO ALFIERI Communication Officer, Retake Roma Italy

Ziya ALTUNYALDIZ Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights of the PACE (NR) Turkey

Ana Isabel ALVAREZ NIEVES National project coordinator of #UnÁrbolPorEuropa Spain

Andrew ANDERSON Executive Director, Front Line Defenders Ireland

Kakha ARTSIVADZE Emerald Network Georgia

Matthew BACH Coordinator, ICLEI Germany

Costa BAKARI WFD Youth Delegate Tanzania

Jeanne BARSEGHIAN Mayor of Strasbourg France

Alice BERGHOLTZ Representative of the National Council of Swedish Youth Organisations to the Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe Sweden

Michael BERKOWITZ Founding principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst USA

Antoine BERNARD Director of Advocacy and Litigation, Reporters without borders France

Niranjan Dev BHARADWAJ WFD Youth Delegate India

Tomáš BOČEK Vice-Governor for Target Group Countries, Council of Europe Development Bank

Simone BORG Ambassador for Climate Action Malta

Clara BOTTO WFD Youth Delegate Brazil

Wael BOURAOUI Project Development Coordinator, AKAD Tunisia

Mathilde BOUYÉ Head of Démocratie Ouverte’s Democracy Index Initiative France

Kevin CASAS-ZAMORA Secretary-General of International IDEA

Lodovica CATTANI WFD Youth Delegate Italy

Anne Marie CHAVANON Chair of the Committee on Environmental and sanitary Crisis, Conference of INGOs France

Guillaume CHEVALLIER Founder, 10 at 10 For The Planet, teacher of physics and chemistry Germany

Claudia CHWALISZ Expert on citizen engagement, OECD France

Gino COCCHIARO Director of Programmes and Development, Natural Justice Kenya

Caroline CORRIGAN Climate Action & SDG Co-Ordinator, Meath County Council Ireland

Rik DAEMS President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-PACE

Arne DANEELS Coordinator, Green Deals Belgium

Christian DEBÈVE Regional Councillor, President of the Commission for International, European and Cross-border Affairs of the Grand-Est Region France

Sarah DIEDRO JORDÃO Communications Strategist

Linus DOLDER Climate activist Switzerland

Julia DUMAY Deputy Mayor for European and International Affairs, Strasbourg France

Brendan DUNFORD Manager, Burren Programme Ireland

Cara DUNLOP WFD Youth Delegate United Kingdom

Mårten EHNBERG Ambassador, Permanent Representatve of Sweden to the Council of Europe Sweden

Sarah EL HAÏRY Minister of State for Youth and Engagement, attached to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sport France

Gerhard ERMISCHER President of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe

Edite ESTRELA Second Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the PACE (SOC) Portugal

David FARRELL Professor of Politics, University College Dublin Ireland

Monica FERIA-TINTA Barrister (Specialist advocate), Twenty Essex Chambers United Kingdom

Ivy FLEUR Climate Activist, Youth for Climate France

Marie FONTANEL Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the Council of Europe France

Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons of the PACE (SOC) Switzerland

Mikhail GALPERIN Deputy CEO, Head of Legal Affairs of Inter RAO Russian Federation

Annette GERLACH Journalist and TV host at Arte Germany

Marcin GERWIN Specialist in deliberative democracy and sustainability, Sopot Poland

Johann Georg GOLDAMMER Director, Global Fire Monitoring Center Germany

Catherine GRAEF-ECKERT Vice-President of the European Collectivity of Alsace in charge of economic dynamics, tourism, agriculture, employment and the energy and climate transition France

Jean-Pierre GRIN Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-PACE (ALDE) Switzerland

António GUTERRES Secretary General of the United Nations

Johannes HELAMA Project manager, Micropolis Finland

Laura HOHOFF Climate and Democracy Specialist, Democratic Society Belgium

Rob HOPKINS Founder of the Transition movement United Kingdom

Valerie HOPKINS Moscow Correspondent, The New York Times

Morgane HORELLOU Volunteer and technical advisor, PachaGaïa France

Vicky HRISTOVA WFD Youth Delegate Bulgaria

Susanna ISRAELSSON Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council Norway

Brankica JANKOVIĆ Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Serbia

Dragan M. JONIĆ Activist, ORSP (Defend the Rivers of the Stara Planina) Serbia

Timothy KARR Senior Director of Strategy and Communications, Free Press

George KATROUGALOS Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-PACE (UEL) Greece

Virag KAUFER Greenpeace European Campaigns Coordinator

Natalia KOMAROVA Governor of the Khanti-Mansiysk – Yugra autonomous region Russian Federation

Irmina KOTIUK Senior Lawyer, Fundamental Rights Specialist, Client Earth Belgium

Agny KPATA President of the association "Les 150" France

Kritika KRISHNAMURTHY Director, Bridge Policy Think Tank India

Ashok KRISHNAN WFD Youth Delegate, Blue Ribbon Movement India

Luís LEITE RAMOS Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the PACE (EPP/CD) Portugal

Fale Andrew LESA JP. WFD Youth Delegate New Zealand

Jean-Pierre LIOUVILLE Member of the Congress of local and regional authorities of the Council of Europe (SOC) France

Andrea LIVERANI Infrastructure and Sustainable Development Program Leader for European Union Member States of the World Bank

Maria LOGOTHETI The Democracy & Culture Foundation Greece

Claudia LUCIANI Director of Human Dignity, Equality and Governance, Council of Europe

Mila LUKIĆ Council of Europe Advisory Council on Youth

Tinatin MAGHEDANI Leader of the environmental movement Gavigudet (We are Suffocating) Georgia

Mathilde MANTEAUX Volunteer, Notre Affaire à tous France

Lucy MAXWELL Senior Legal Associate, Climate Litigation Network the Netherlands

Kirsten MEIJER Director, WECF Netherlands The Netherlands

Christian MEUWLY Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Council of Europe Switzerland

Sheri MEYERHOFFER The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise Canada

Mariia MEZENTSEVA Head of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to PACE Ukraine

Julia MIALLET Co-founder and co-president, PachaGaïa France

Dunja MIJATOVIĆ Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Stuart MOIR Senior Programme Design and Assessment Officer, International Alert United Kingdom

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of MONACO Monaco

Manuel MONTOBBIO Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Spain to the Council of Europe Spain

Pegah MOULANA Council of Europe Advisory Council on Youth

Vilija NAVICKAITE Programme officer at Swedish International Liberal Centre (SILC) in Vilnius Multiparty Centre Sweden

Nadja NICKEL Programme Director, Climate, Democratic Society Belgium

Nina NORDSTRÖM Ambassador, Permanent representative of Finland to the Council of Europe Finland

Ligia NORONHA Assistant Secretary- General and Head of UNEP’s New York Office

Jesús Gael NOVILLO VÁZQUEZ WFD Youth Delegate Spain

Rhys NUGENT WFD Youth Delegate United Kingdom

Viviane OGOU CORBI Youth delegate, The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Spain

Anuroop OMKAR Director of Bridge Policy Think Tank India

Chiziterem Precious ONYENEKWE Human Centred Designer and entertainer Nigeria

Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVA Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - PACE (ALDE) Ukraine

Liliana PALIHOVICI Special Representative on Gender Issues of the OSCE Republic of Moldova

Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Ivo PETROV WFD Youth Delegate Bulgaria

Elsa PILICHOWSKI Director for Public Governance (OECD)

Halim PRATAMA WFD Youth Delegate Indonesia

Maja PRAVULJAC Legal Expert, Client Earth Belgium

Vladimir PREBILIC Congress Spokesperson on Climate Change and the Environment, Mayor of Kocevje Slovenia

Adel RAMDANI Youth delegate, The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Belgium

Artem ROMANIUKOV Co-founder, Save Dnipro Ukraine

Xavier ROMERO-VIDAL Research Associate, Centre for the Future of Democracy, University of Cambridge United Kingdom

Tinna RÓS STEINSDÓTTIR International expert on child participation and safeguarding Iceland

Usmanu SALI Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at MBOSCUDA Cameroon

Luca SALTALAMACCHIA Lawyer, human rights and environment defender Italy

Snežana SAMARDŽIĆ MARKOVIĆ Director General of Democracy, Council of Europe

Guzmán SANCHEZ Strategic communications expert Spain

Vandita SARIYA WFD Youth Delegate India

Quentin SAUZAY Co-president of Open Democracy France

Selin SAYEK BÖKE Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter of the PACE (SOC) Turkey

Stefan SCHENNACH Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-PACE (SPÖ) Austria

Cybèle SCHNEIDER Legal Intern in Climate Justice, Bread for all Switzerland

Denis SCHREY Network Coordinator, ENoP

Sven-Marten SCHULTE External Coordinator Extinction Rebellion, Global Support Participative Democracy (XR GS PartDem) Germany

Abdulla SHAHID President of the UNGA, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives Maldives

Heidi SOLBA President and Head of the Global Network at Let's Do It World Estonia

Alexandre STUTZMANN Special Advisor, Office of UNGA President

Carmen JURADO TABOADA WFD Youth Delegate Spain

Prof Yukari TAKAMURA Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo Japan

Gloria TAOUSSI Local group coordinator, Notre affaire à Tous France

Melina TAPRANTZI Founder, Wise Greece Greece

Alex TAYLOR European journalist

Pavlo TKACHENKO Co-founder, Save Dnipro Ukraine

Lidia TOTH Advocacy officer at Visegrad for Sustainability (V4SDG)

Achilles TSALTAS President of the Democracy & Culture Foundation United Kingdom

Marijn VAN DE GEER Internal Coordinator for the Citizens' Assembly Working Group at XR United Kingdom

Judit VARGA Minister of Justice Hungary

Susanna VEEVO Youth delegate, The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Estonia

Adam WEISS Head of Programme: Ocean, Plastics, and Chemicals, Client Earth Belgium

Richard WIKE Director of global attitudes research, Pew Research Centre USA

Niels WILLO Policy officer, Flemish Green Deal Business and Biodiversity Project, Flemish Green Deal Natural Gardens Project Belgium

Dalit WOLF GOLAN Israeli Deputy Director, Regional Development Director Israel

Friedrich WULF Head, International Biodiversity Policy, Pro Natura - Friends of the Earth Switzerland

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