World Forum for Democracy 2023: speakers

Byong-Jin AHN Professor of the Global Academy for Future Civilisations, Kyung Hee University, Seoul Republic of Korea

Oluwasegun AJETUNMOBI Head of Programmes, The Citizens Watch Nigeria

Mohammed AL JAJA (23 Feb 1992 - 6 Nov 2023) Fundraising Advisor, Press House Palestine

Terry ANDERSON Director of Cartoonists Rights

Abellia ANGGI Research Director, Data-based approach to conflict prevention and management in Rakhine State Myanmar

Antonio ARGENZIANO President of Young European Federalists (JEF Europe)

Amanda ARROYO CABEZAS Director of Programs, Nosotras Women Connecting Costa Rica

Cemal BAŞ Spokesperson on Environment and Climate Change of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Türkiye

Kurt BASSUENER Co-founder and senior associate of the Democratization Policy Council Germany

Parvana BAYRAMOVA Gender Equality Rapporteur, Council of Europe, Baku

Olivier BECHT Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs France

Marwa BENAHMED Youth delegate Algeria

Antoine BERNARD Director, Advocacy & Assistance, Reporters without Borders

Véronique BERTHOLLE Deputy Spokesperson on Youth of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Deputy Mayor of Strasbourg, in charge of international and European relations France

Prakash BHATTARAI Executive Director, CSC, ‘Sadbhaav’ project Nepal

Yuriy BIELOUSOV Head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Conditions of Armed Conflict of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office

Kathryne BOMBERGER Director-General, International Commission for Missing Persons

John BOND Former Secretary of Initiatives of Change International

Inês Fialho BRANDÃO Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe, Museum Specialist Portugal

Dr Rony BRAUMAN Former President of Doctors Without Borders France

Francesca CAMILLERI VETTIGER Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe Malta

Alessandra CARDACI Project Manager at Debating Europe Belgium

Dita CHARANZOVÁ Vice-President of the European Parliament

Bartlomiej CIĄŻYŃSKI Deputy Mayor of Wrocław Poland

Marilena-Valentina CIOBANU Youth delegate Romania

Daniela Lucia CORBALAN CCIVS Youth Committee Member, Decolonise IVS Argentina

Jean-Baptiste CUZIN Director of cross-border, European and international cooperation for the Grand Est Region France

Sylvie D’ALGUERRE Elected member of the Grand Est Region and delegate for gender equality France

Bruce Bueno DE MESQUITA Political scientist, professor at New York University USA

Emmanuel DECAUX President of the René Cassin Foundation France

Dzenana DEDIC Establisher and director of Local Democracy Agency Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Trine DEMANT Chief Consultant, The Democracy Fitness Movement Denmark

Estelle DEPRIS Activist and creator of Sansblancderien Belgium

Renzo DIAZ GIUNTA Youth delegate Peru

Michaela ECKART Programme Director, Women Talking Peace - Leadership Programme

Dr. Buthaina ELNAIEM Activist and Independent Writer Sudan

Gerhard ERMISCHER President of the Conference of INGOs

Heba EZZIDEEN SAMOGLU CEO, Inter-Religious Nexus for Women as Peace Builders and Politicians Syria

Roberto FOA Centre for the Future of Democracy, University of Cambridge United Kingdom

Romain GAUDRON Communal Councillor of Arlon, Member of the Governance Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Belgium

Svetlana GELEVA Ambassador, Permanente Representative of North Macedonia to the Council of Europe North Macedonia

Annette GERLACH Journalist and TV Host, ARTE

Zarifa GHAFARI Former Mayor of Maidan Shahr, North South Prize Laureate 2021 Afghanistan/Germany

Caroline GILLET Journalist Radio France France

Anna GLAZEWSKI Lawyer and Professor of human rights and international law

Lana GOGOBERIDZE Film director Georgia

Tanja GONGGRIJP Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Council of Europe the Netherlands

Dr. John GOODMAN Director, Syracuse University – Strasbourg

Matt GRUDNOFF Senior Economist at The Australia Institute Australia

Meoïn HAGEGE sociologist at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research and the University Paris Est Créteil France

Eliot HIGGINS Chairman and Creative Director, Bellingcat United Kingdom

Nondumiso HLOPHE North-South Centre Trainer in the University of Youth and Development Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland)

Joan HOEY Editor of the Democracy Index, Economist Intelligence Unit United Kingdom

Jhih - Ping (Justin) HUANG Youth delegate Taiwan

Alejandra IBARRA CHAOUL Executive Director DDLD Living Archive Mexico

Kyosuke INADA Chief Representative for Europe, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Japan

Nedeljka IVOŠEVIĆ Member of the Bureau of the Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe Serbia

Belal JADALLAH SALEM (1 May 1978 - 19 Nov 2023) General Director, Press House – Palestine

Gilberto JERÓNIMO Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the Council of Europe Portugal

KAK Cartoonist, President of Cartooning for Peace France

Arseniy KARSAKOV Youth delegate Russian Federation

Bogdan KELICHAVYI Member of the Board of the Association of Amalgamated Communities of Ukraine, Kopychyntsi Mayor Ukraine

Arnav KHADKA Youth delegate Nepal

Narayan KHANAL Youth Delegate Australia

Steve KILLELEA Founder and Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace Australia

Samuel Paul KINYUA KARIUKI Executive Director of the Democracy Development Program (DDP) South Africa

Aidan KOHN-MURPHY Founder, Gen-Z for Change USA

Dr. Guma Kunda KOMEY Former Peace Advisor to former Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok Sudan

David KORPELA Chef de Cabinet, European Union Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea

Tiny KOX President of the Parlementary Assembly, Council of Europe

Kathrine KRONE LAURENT Co-founder, The Democracy Fitness Movement Denmark

Namatai KWEKWEZA WELEAD Director, winner of the Kofi Annan NexGen Democracy Prize

Mitali LAATHI Vice-President, Chetana Empowerment Foundation India

Nandini Tanya LALLMON Management Committee Member, Ubuntu Hub Cities Uganda

Mona LAROUSSI Director, Institute of the Francophone World for Education and Training

Taeho LEE Director of Center for Peace and Disarmament of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) South Korea

Franck LEROY President of the Grand Est Region France

Marko LONČAR Member of the Council of Europe Advisory Council on Youth

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

Adam LUPEL Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, International Peace Institute

Elina MAKRI General Manager of the Democracy & Culture Foundation, Greece Greece

Paolo Antonio MANETTI President, So’Stare Project Italy

Jean-Paul MARTHOZ Editorial co-ordinator of the annual report by the partner organisations to the Safety of Journalists Platform

Susan McCRORY Mothers of Peace, Peacemaker United Kingdom

Omar MEMISEVIC Youth delegate Bosnia & Herzegovina

Renis META Youth delegate Albania

Edita MIFTARI Governance and Leadership Expert Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jedidah MILLAPO Capacity Building Officer, SmartCare Plus Zambia

Rory MONTGOMERY Mitchell Institute, Queen’s University Belfast; RIA, Trinity College Dublin Ireland

Peter MOUSAFERIADIS CEO, Diversity Atlas Australia

Simon MOUTQUIN Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assermbly of the Council of Europe Belgium

Jasmin MUJANOVIĆ Member of the Advisory Board of the Kulin Initiative Bosnia and Herzegovina

Héritier MUMBERE SIVIHWA Executive Director, JAMAA Grands Lacs Democratic Republic of Congo

Natia NATSVLISHVILI Member of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Education Georgia

Pap NDIAYE Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the Council of Europe France

Frédérique NEAU-DUFOUR Historian of the Second World War and former director of Struthof France

Tuyên Đăng NGUYỄN PHẠM Youth Delegate Vietnam

Steffi NIEDERZOLL Director of the film "7 Winters in Teheran" Germany

Cleas NLEMVO Youth delegate Democratic Republic of Congo

Dr Patricia O’LYNN CEO of The Institute for Disruption, Former MLA, Northern Ireland United Kingdom

Tracey OSOGO Coordinator of The People Dialogue Festival (PDF)

John OTUNGA Programme Manager, Sentinel Project Canada/Kenya

Shole PAKRAVAN Mother of Reyhaneh, a victim of the death penalty

George PAPANDREOU Former Prime Minister, Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Greece

Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Pascale PFEIFFER Councillor of Alsace, delegate for strengthening democratic ties and European democracy, European Collectivity of Alsace France

Natallia PINCHUK Wife of Ales Bialitski, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2022 Belarus

Anne PITA LOMOLE Member of the South Sudan Women Intellectuals Forum South Sudan

Aurélie PLAÇAIS Director of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty France

Yevhen POPOV Co-founder of PolitScanner Ukraine

Ismar PORIC Director of the House of good tones organization Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sébastien POTAUFEU Senior Adviser for Human Rights, Co-ordinator for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Council of Europe

Alexis PROKOPIEV Director, Governance & Democratic Innovation, Make.org

Tatiana PUIU Vice-President of the European Committee on Social Rights, State Councillor Republic of Moldova

Anzhelika PYLYPENKO Delegate of the Local Democracy Agency (LDA) Ukraine

Vivek RANDAD Founder and President, Chetana Empowerment Foudation India

Abdul REHMAN MALIK Co-Director, CERITA Caravan

Marija RISTESKA Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Policy Making North Macedonia

Geoffrey ROBERTSON AO, KC, former President of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone and author of "Crimes Against Humanity - The Struggle for Global Justice" United Kingdom

Ignacio RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ Co-Founder and Director, EPIX Venezuela

Miguel Angel ROMERO ROSAS CEO, Kids Lives Matter Colombia Colombia

Xavier ROMERO VIDAL Research Associate at the Centre for the Future of Democracy, Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge

Paul ROWSELL Chair of the European Committee on democracy and Governance (CDDG) United Kingdom

Byrony RUDKIN Chair of the Current Affairs Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe United Kingdom

Marja RUOTANEN Director General of Democracy and Human Dignity, Council of Europe

Farid RUSTAMZADA Co-Founder and Director, Institute for Labor Rights Advocacy (ILRA) Azerbaijan

Ahmed Abdullah SAAD MOHAMED CEO, Educuality Egypt

Ahlam SAEED Youth delegate Jordan/Hungary

Ernest SAGAGA Secretary-General of the OACP Press Clubs Federation and President of Ibuka for survivors of the Tutsi genocide

Ozer SAHOGLU Youth delegate Cyprus

Prof. Almasa SALIHOVIC Public Relations Officer, Memorial Center Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina

Selin SAYEK BÖKE Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (2022-2023) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Türkiye