World Forum for Democracy 2018: Speakers

Feride ACAR President of GREVIO

Alexandra ADRIAENSSENS Project director at the Direction for equal opportunities in the Minister of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Belgium

Mohamad AL KAWATLI Project manager, ‘Yalla Let’s Bike’ initiative Syria

Gwendolyn ALBERT Human rights activist, researcher and translator, journalist at Romea.cz Czech Republic

Asha ALLEN Policy and Campaigns Director, European Women’s Lobby United Kingdom

Chadia ARAB Researcher at the CNRS UMR ESO France

Francesca ATTOLINO Democratic Society Italy

Aicha AYARI Program Coordinator, “Women Leaders of Tomorrow”

Kåre BACH KRISTIANSEN Managing Partner in Trivium

Alice BARBIERI Gender Equality Rapporteur for the Youth sector and member of the Advisory Council on Youth, Council of Europe

Marie-Noelle BAS President, Chiennes de garde France

Gabriella BATTAINI-DRAGONI Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Robert BJARNASON Member of the Incubator for Participatory Democracy Iceland

Nina BJÖRBY Vice President for Democracy AER and Chairman Culture Committee in Region Västerbotten Sweden

Rósa BJÖRK BRYNJÓLFSDÓTTIR Member of the PACE's Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy Iceland

Roeland BÖCKER Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Council of Europe Netherlands

Jean-Luc BOHL First Vice-President of Région Grand Est France

Caterina BOLOGNESE Head of Gender Equality Division, Council of Europe

Alan BOWMAN Deputy Head of Mission of Canada Canada

Rebecca BREITMAN Member of the Young democrats of Strasbourg France

Denis BRIBOSIA Secretariat of the Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe

Kevin BROWN Directorate of Legal Advice and Public International Law, Council of Europe

Marcelle BUGRE Project Development Manager with the Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants Malta

Colombe CAHEN-SALVADOR Co-founder and European Policy Lead at Volt Europa France

Marina CALLONI Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy

Corina CĂLUGĂRU Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the Council of Europe Republic of Moldova

Claude CHIRAC Vice-President of the Chirac Foundation France

Sylvia CLEFF LE DIVELLEC Attorney at Law at the Paris Bar France/Germany

Michel CLOOSTERMAN Business coach

Eliana CORACI Secretariat of the Congress of the Council of Europe

Mercedes D’ALESSANDRO President of Economía Feminista USA

Drude DAHLERUP Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University Sweden

Anca DAMIAN Director, writer, producer Romania

Dusica DAVIDOVIC Member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Serbia

Petra DE SUTTER Chairperson in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs Belgium

Dolores DELGADO GARCIA Minister of Justice Spain

Pénélope DENU Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly

Ismeta DERVOZ Former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, journalist Bosnia and Herzegovina

Stewart DICKSON Member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities United Kingdom

Laura DONATI Intercultural Cities, Council of Europe

Lamin S. FATTY Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Focal Point, Tostan Gambia

Simone FILIPPINI Executive Director, Leadership4SDGs Foundation Netherlands

Veronica FOUBERT LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® certified facilitator

Robert FRANKEN Platform “Male Feminists Europe” Germany

Ben FREEMAN Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe

Lenita FREIDENVALL Special Adviser and Deputy Head for the Gender Equality Division at the Ministry for Health and Social Affairs Sweden

François FRIEDERICH Head of Division Electoral Assistance, Council of Europe

Orhan GALJUS Chair, EBU Roma Task Force Group and CEO of Radio Patrin Netherlands

Thomas GARRETT Secretary General of Community of Democracies

Annette GERLACH Journalist at ARTE Germany

Gabriella GILLESPIE Author and activist United Kingdom

Oleksandra GOLUB Head of the Women’s rights protection league Ukraine

Catherine GRAEF-ECKERT Departmental Councillor of Bas-Rhin, Canton of Lingolsheim France

Simona GRANATA-MENGHINI Deputy Secretary Venice Commission, Council of Europe

Cécile GREBOVAL Programme Manager, Gender Equality Division, Council of Europe

Chris GREEN OBE, President and Founder of White Ribbon UK United Kingdom

Dariusz GRZEMNY Youth worker and trainer/consultant in educational projects across Europe Poland

Louise GUILLON Sciences Po Strasbourg France

Zita GURMAI Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination Hungary

Dirk HAMAKER Advisor at TNdT Foundation Netherlands

Jelena HRNJAK Women’s activist Serbia

Mala HTUN Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico USA

Shiori ITO Journalist Japan

Thorbjørn JAGLAND Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Sopio JAPARIDZE Assistant to Prime-Minister on Human Rights and Gender Equality Georgia

Valentine JOSENHANS Secretariat of The Istanbul Convention Monitoring Mechanism (GREVIO), Council of Europe

Hajnalka JUHÁSZ Member of the Hungarian PACE delegation Hungary

Laima JUREVICIENE Ambassador, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Lithuania to the Council of Europe Lithuania

Fadwa KAMAL Trainer/Digital expert, Get heard Morocco

Lina KAMINSKAITĖ-JANČORIENĖ Lithuania

Mathilde KARCELES PhD student in Germanic studies France

Galina KARELOVA Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Russian Federation

Suriani KEMPE Musawah Programme Manager Malaysia

Georgette KENNEBRAE Rabbi USA

Farrah KHAN Manager, Consent Comes First, Sexual Violence Support and Education Ryerson University Canada

Susan KIHIKA President of the Parliamentarian Women’s Bureau of the IPU Kenya

Maria-Elena KISYOVA Secretariat of The Istanbul Convention Monitoring Mechanism, Council of Europe

Tanja KLEINSORGE Head of Secretariat Parliamentary Assembly, Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

Liri KOPAÇI-DI MICHELE Head of Violence against Women Division, Council of Europe

Tiina KUKKAMAA-BAH Chief, Democratic Governance and Gender Unit, OSCE-ODIHR

Meglena KUNEVA Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the EU Delegation to the Council of Europe

Lidia KURASINSKA Freelance journalist covering eastern Europe and the Balkans Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cornelia KUTTERER Senior Director, Eu Government Affairs, AI & Privacy and Digital Policies at Microsoft

Catherine LADOUSSE President, Cercle InterElles France

Marta LEMPART Co-founder Strajk Kobiet Poland

Yves LETERME Secretary General of International IDEA

Francesca LIONETTI Intercultural Cities, Council of Europe

Vanessa LISTON Member of the Incubator for Participatory Democracy Ireland

Giorgio LODDO Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly, Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination

Guillaume LOISEAU Advisor, Division of Electoral Assistance, Council of Europe

Hortense LOUGUÉ Executive Director of the Support and Awakening Association "Pugsada" Burkina Faso

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

Caterina Amanda LUISE Secretariat of the Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe Development Bank

Adam LUPEL Vice-President of the International Peace Institute (IPI) USA

Julienne LUSENGE Director of the Fund for Congolese Women Democratic Republic of the Congo

Laila MALIK Production Coordinator, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Canada

Samah MANSUR Gender and media unit officer, ACT Egypt

Jean-Baptiste MATTÉI Ambassador, Permanent representative of France to the Council of Europe France

Liliane MAURY PASQUIER President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Kelly McBRIDE Democratic Society United Kingdom

Rosemary McCARNEY Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative Canada

Yannick MENECEUR Information Society and Action against crime Directorate, Council of Europe

Magali MENNETEAU Sciences Po Strasbourg France

David MILNER Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Zohrab MNATSAKANYAN Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Armenia

Françeska MUÇO Act for Society Centre Albania

Tina MULCAHY Executive Director of the European Youth Centre, Council of Europe

Thérèse MURPHY Head of Operations Unit at European Gender Equality Institute

Philippe MUYTERS Flemish Minister for Work, Economy, Innovation and Sport Belgium

Aseel NAAMANI Director of Programs, ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality Lebanon

Rabéa NACIRI Member of several human rights and women's rights organisations and networks Morocco

Arezoo NAJIBZADEH Co-founder, Young Women’s Leadership Network Canada

Anindya 'Vivi' NASTITI RESTUVIANI Co-Director, Hollaback! Jakarta Indonesia

Salimata NDOYE Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie France

Anne NÈGRE Chair of University Women in Europe and Vice President of the Council of Europe’s Conference of INGOs France

Susan NEWMAN-BAUDAIS Secretariat of Eurimages, Council of Europe

Lady NGO MANG EPESSE Women’s rights specialist, TV journalist Cameroon/France

Israël NISAND Great Witness, Gynecologist France

Agnieszka NOGAL Expert on feminism and human rights Poland

Karin NORDMEYER Chair, UN Women National Committee for Germany Germany

Faides TembaTemba NSOFU Programme Manager for Women's rights, Oxfam Zambia

Anja OLIN-PAPE Chair of the Council of Europe Advisory Council on Youth

Teresa OMONDI-ADEITAN Executive Director, Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Kenya

Léa PALAU Secretariat of the Congress of the Council of Europe

Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Croatia

Danka PETROVIĆ MATANOVIĆ International cooperation and EU integration Advisor, Ministry of Interior of Montenegro Montenegro

Graziella PIGA Gender expert Italy

Claire PROVOST Editor of 50.50 Italy

Zuzanna RADZIK Theologian and Author Poland

Nawel RAFIK-ELMRINI Deputy Mayor of the City of Strasbourg France

Francine RAVENEY Project Manager Eurimages, Council of Europe

Elena Eva REYNEGA Executive secretary, Red Tra Sex Argentina

Roland RIES Mayor of Strasbourg France

Anna RIVINA SCE alumni, PhD, Founder & Director of «Nasiliu.net» Russian Federation

Karen ROSS Professor of Gender and Media, Newcastle University United Kingdom

Chloe ROTHMAN Programme Director, Shooting Touch Rwanda

Antoinette ROUVROY Permanent research associate, University of Namur Belgium

Bryony RUDKIN Member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities United Kingdom

Robert RUSTEM Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe

Harish SADANI Chief Functionary, MAVA India

Snežana SAMARDŽIĆ-MARKOVIĆ Director General of Democracy, Council of Europe

Rosa María SÁNCHEZ-YEBRA ALONSO Vice-Governor of the Council of Europe Development Bank

Maria SANZ DOMINGUEZ 50.50 women’s rights & economic justice fellow Paraguay

Marlène SCHIAPPA Minister of State for Gender Equality France

Anna SERNER CEO of the Swedish Film Institute Sweden

Sara SHAVISI Director of Programmes, Fearless Futures United Kingdom

Aliisa SIIVONEN Media and Internet Governance, Council of Europe

Annika SILVA-LEANDER International IDEA

Laura SILVER Senior researcher at Pew Research Center USA

Marianne SLOT Award-winning film producer Denmark

Timo SOINI Minister for Foreign affairs Finland

Zuzana STRUHAROVA Social Equality Facilitator at Volt Europa Slovak Republic

Despina SYRRI Director, Civic school of Political Studies in Greece and President of Symβiosis, Thessaloniki Greece

Laurène THIL Gender Equality Division, Council of Europe

Joycia THORAT Project Officer, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) India

Chiara TOMASI Public Policy and Government Relations Analyst, Google

Claudia TORRISI Freelance journalist and 50.50 columnist Italy

Evrydiki TSELIOU Administrative Assistant, Gender Equality Division, Council of Europe

Naoko UEDA Deputy Director of the Development Centre, OECD

Anja VAN DEN DURPEL Director European Policy on Social Inclusion and Welfare, City of Ghent Belgium

Tània VERGE MESTRE Associate Professor Spain

Yelly WEIDENAAR Managing Director of ‘Talent naar de Top’ Netherlands

Christopher YVON Ambassador, UK Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe United Kingdom

Anthony ZACHARZEWSKI Founder of The Democratic Society United Kingdom

Sawsan ZAKZAK Coordination Committee Member, Syrian Women’s League Syria

Frederik ZUIDERVEEN BORGESIUS Researcher at LTS Law, Science, Technology & Society, VUB Free University of Brussels Belgium

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