World Forum for Democracy 2019: Speakers

Meziane ABANE Journalist and activist, Founder of Avant-Garde Algérie Algeria

Austin AIGBE Senior Program Officer, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Nigeria

Tanja AITAMURTO Assistant Professor Finland

Gulnara AKHUNDOVA Head of Department for Global Response, International Media Support

Titus ALEXANDER Author, Honorary Fellow, Crick Centre & Founder of Democracy Matters United Kingdom

ANTÓNIO Cartoonist Portugal

Manuel ARRIAGA Professor, New York University

Dr S. ARULCHELVAN Associate Professor Anna University India

Katrin BANNACH Project Manager, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Thailand and Myanmar Germany

Jean-Paul BASTIN Member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Belgium

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

Anna BELKINA Journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Head of Communications, Marketing and Strategic Development, RT Russian Federation

Elodie BETH-SEO Senior Project Officer, Section of Global Citizenship and Peace Education, UNESCO

Sidharth BHATIA Journalist and writer India

Frédéric BIERRY President of the Department of Bas-Rhin France

Krzysztof BOBINSKI President of Unia&Polska, a pro-European think-tank, Polish Society of Journalists Poland

Marie BOHNER Project Manager for First Draft

Caterina BOLOGNESE Secretary to the Gender Equality Commission, Head of the Gender Equality Division, Council of Europe

Laura BONONCINI Public Policy Director, Southern Europe, Facebook

Marie-Hélène BOULANGER Head of Unit, Union Citizenship Rights and Free Movement, DG Justice, European Commission

Derek BOWLER Head of Social Newsgathering, EBU Switzerland

Andrea CAIROLA Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO

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

Tommaso CANETTA Journalist and fact-checker Italy

Matthew CARUANA GALIZIA Investigative journalist Malta

CHAPPATTE Cartoonist Switzerland

Donna CHU The Chinese Univesity of Hong Kong China

Raphaël COMTE Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Switzerland

Georges CONTOGEORGIS Academic, political scientist, politician Greece

Marc COOLS Member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Belgium

Patrick COSTELLO Head of Division, Democracy and Electoral Observation, EEAS

Dr. Alessandro CURIONI IBM Fellow, vice president of Europe and Africa and Director, IBM Research - Zurich

Nighat DAD Lawyer, founder of the Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan

Harley DAVIS Vice-President, Lab and Decision Management, IBM France

Andrew DAWSON Thematic Spokesperson on Promoting Public Ethics and Preventing Corruption at the Local and Regional Levels of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe United Kingdom

Christophe DELOIRE Secretary general of Reporters Without Borders

Harlem DESIR OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Roman DOBROKHOTOV Editor-in-chief, The Insider Russian Federation

Pierre-François DOCQUIR Head of Media Freedom at Article 19 United Kingdom

Adelina DRAGOMIR Project Manager of the Young Digital Leaders initiative Romania

Pimrapaat DUSADEEISARIYAKUL Programme Manager, The Friedrich Naumann Foundation Thailand

Diana DUTSYK Media expert and Executive Director of CSO “Ukrainian Media and Communications Institute” Ukraine

Rut EINARSDÓTTIR Member of the Advisory Council on Youth to the Council of Europe Iceland

Monica ELLENA Senior editor, Chai Khana Media Ukraine/Georgia

Jean-François FURNEMONT Founding Partner at Wagner-Hatfield

Claudine GANTER Representative of the Grand-Est Region France

Annette GERLACH Journalist and TV host at Arte Germany

Vasileios GIANNIAS Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, PACE Greece

Tom GIBSON Lead advocate of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Brussels

Carey GILLAM Investigative journalist USA

GLEZ Cartoonist Burkina Faso

Anthony GOOCH Director of Public Affairs and Communication, OECD

Catherine GRAEF-ECKERT Bas-Rhin Departmental Councilor France

Gunnar GRÍMSSON Founder of Better News Iceland

Matjaž GRUDEN Director of Democratic Participation, Council of Europe

Florent GUIGNARD CEO, La Drenche France

Ricardo GUTIÉRREZ General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists

Banu GUVEN Journalist Turkey

Julia HAAS Project Associate, Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Flemming HANSEN Senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies Denmark

Marci HARRIS Cofounder / CEO, Popvox USA

Carina HAUPT Media Analyst, Media Intelligence Service, European Broadcasting Union

Richard HEISE Political scientist, researcher, project coordinator, Leibniz University Germany

Hauwa IBRAHIM Human Rights Lawyer, Sakharov Prize Winner 2005 Nigeria

Krysztof IZDEBSKI Policy Director, ePanstwo Foundation Poland

Munizae JAHANGIR Journalist and documentary filmmaker Pakistan

Elisavet KARAKITSIOU Historian-Archaeologist, teacher, project partner, Epal Korydallou School Greece

Lorène KARAM Student, Sciences Po Strasbourg France

Timothy KARR Senior Director of Strategy and Communications, Free press

Georgios KATROUGKALOS Member of the Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe Greece

Sophie KAYES Senior Officer for Eurasia at the Rory Peck Trust United Kingdom

Michael KICHKA Cartoonist Israel

Michael KLOS Researcher and lecturer on freedom of speech on the internet, Leiden University Netherlands

Flutura KUSARI Legal Advisor, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom

Rasťo KUŽEL Media & election expert, MEMO 98 Slovak Republic

Lisa KUZMENKO Gender expert for the mass media, head of the Ukrainian NGO Association ‘Women in media Ukraine

Dr Eleni A. KYZA Associate Professor, Cyprus University of Technology Cyprus

Nouri LAJMI President, High Independent Authority of the Audiovisual Commission Tunisia

Céline LE FLOUR Student, Sciences Po Strasbourg France

Martin LENG Communications Coordinator, Quaker Council for European Affairs Belgium

Alexis LENOIR Co-founder, Datagora France

Enrico LETTA Former Prime Minister Italy

Bertrand LEVANT Program officer, Directorate Political Affairs and Democratic Governance, OIF

Claire LEY Student, Sciences Po Strasbourg France

Anne-Laure LIARDOU Student, Sciences Po Strasbourg France

Guillaume LOISEAU Project and Research Officer, Division of Electoral Assistance, Council of Europe

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

Letizia MAGNANI Independent Journalist San Marino

Miodrag MAJIĆ Judge, blogger Serbia

Ingo MANNTEUFEL Head of Department for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus at Deutsche Welle Germany

Jean-François MARCHAL Head of antennes Unis Cité Alsace France

Jean-Paul MARTHOZ Columnist with Le Soir and writer Belgium

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

Simon MATTHIJSSEN Chair of the Human Rights Committee, Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe

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

Giacomo MAZZONE European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Italy

Aren MELIKYAN Journalist, Media Initiatives Center Armenia

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

Yasmine MEREI Writer and Journalist Syria

Pedro X. MOLINA Press cartoonist, caricaturist Nicaragua

Roxana MORDUCHOWICZ UNESCO Consultant Argentina

Sibeth NDIAYE Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, Government Spokeswoman France

Camelia NISTOR Freelance Trainer, Coach and Consultant Romania

Anastasiia NOHOVITSYNA Justice sector reform projects support, Council of Europe

Christine OCKRENT Journalist, author, producer of the programme "Affaires étrangères" on France Culture Belgium

Kevwe OGHIDE Lead, Communications and Strategy, Connected Development Nigeria

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

Marguerite OUEDRAOGO President of the "Commission informatique et libertés" (the data protection authority of Burkina Faso) Burkina Faso

Leonardo PARRAGA Executive Director, The BogotArt Foundation Colombia

David PATRIKARAKOS Author, journalist and broadcaster

Sasa PAUNOVIC Member of the Serbian Delegation, President of the Municipality of Paracin Serbia

Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Marjatta PELTONEN Project Officer, City of Helsinki Finland

Jean-Paul PHILIPPOT Administrator-General, RTBF Belgium

PLANTU Cartoonist and President of Cartooning for Peace France

Jelena RADIVOJEVIC Investigative journalist, KRIK Serbia

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

Roberto RAMPI Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Italy

Sandhya RAVISHANKAR Journalist India

RAYMA Cartoonist Venezuela

Laurent RICHARD Green Blood project, Freedom Voices Network France

Roland RIES Mayor of Strasbourg France

Adrià RODRÍGUEZ-PÉREZ Public Policy Researcher at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting Spain

Andrea ROMEO Trainee at the Political Section of the European Union Delegation to the Council of Europe

Sophie ROSENZWEIG Journalist, Arte

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

Victor ROTARI Junior Project Officer, Office of the Directorate General of Programmes, Council of Europe

Charlotte ROUSSEAU Student, Sciences Po Strasbourg France

Daniel RZASA Editor-in-Chief, 300Gospdarka, former Teaching Fellow at Google News Lab

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

Leonardo SANNA PhD Fellow, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Italy

Selin SAYEK BÖKE Member of the Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe Turkey

Elsa SCHALCK Vice President, Youth Delegation, Territorial Orientation and Democracy, Région Grand-Est France

Stefan SCHENNACH Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Austria

Thomas SCHNEIDER Vice-Director, Federal Office of Communications, and Chair CDMSI Switzerland

Stefan J. SCHUSTEREDER Educator, L2C Trainer, Expert for the Council of Europe

Beatrice SIMONCINI Young Press Officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of San Marino San Marino

Marko SKORIC Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong / Serbia

Andrej SLAPNIČAR Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the Council of Europe Slovenia

Olaf STEENFADT Journalism Trust Initiative, Reporters Without Borders Germany

Alexandre STUTZMANN Senior Adviser and Team Leader for Social, Human Rights, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues, Office of the President, United Nations General Assembly