Pegah is a human rights activist based in Europe, mostly focusing on the impact of environmental degradation towards young people and their access to their human rights. She started her work from the age of 11 and since then has worked towards voicing the concerns of young people to decision making bodies, including local, national and regional institutions. She is currently the Co-Chairperson of Programming Committee on Youth [PC], an intergovernmental body within the Youth Department of Council of Europe which establishes and monitors the programmes of European Youth Foundation and European youth Centres in Budapest and Strasbourg.

Professor Simone Borg LL.D, LL.M. (Int law), Ph.D (IMLI) is Malta’s Ambassador for Climate Action and chairs the Climate Action Board. Prof Borg is a resident academic at the University of Malta, where she heads the Department of Environmental and Resources law and is also a lecturer in International law at the Faculty of Laws. She is the director for the International Master of Arts Programme on Ocean Governance and chairs the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development. She is a visiting lecturer at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute and has lectured at various Universities abroad. Simone Borg is currently chairing the Steering Committee for Malta’s National Post COVID Strategy.

I am a Human Centred Designer and entertainer who has reluctantly entered the democracy space due to the dearth of it in my country. Starting from the discussions I participate in at the European Forum Alpbach to the World Forum for Democracy, I am quite unconsciously drawn by the need for more inclusion, information and innovation in Democracy particularly with a perspective from lower socioeconomic/underrepresented groups summing up to the actual implementation of strategies especially in the environmental urgency of our shared planet. Therefore, I joined the WFD to contribute, exchange ideas and experiences, in the hope of bringing the idea of an inclusive sustainable future to fruition.

Susanna Veevo is an advocacy specialist at the Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation, with main areas of work being development cooperation policy analysis and carrying out advocacy activities at the national level and in European Union institutions. She focuses on the sustainability aspect in both democratic participation and environmental policies in partnering countries (mainly Easter Partnership, Middle Eastern and Sub-Saharan Africa regions). Her experience in the field is intertwined with the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Cooperation. Susanna's main competencies lie in development finance (including fostering good governance, democratic practices and more than ever, climate finance) and policy coherence, which are closely linked with community engagement, migration policies and human rights.