World Forum for Democracy 2022: speakers

Fikret ADAMAN Professor, Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University Türkiye

Naim ALAĐUZ Head of the language department at Hilfe von Mensch zu Mensch Germany

Rebeca ALVAREZ RIVERO Superior Technician at Ministry of Social Rights at Government of Catalonia Spain

Thomas ANDERSSON Chair of the Current Affairs Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Sweden

Benjie Allen Dela Pasion AQUINO Youth Delegate Philippines

Danniel BARBOSA Communication officer, Politize! Brazil

Donara BAROJAN Co-founder of Polltix and counter-disinformation expert Lithuania

Jeanne BARSEGHIAN Mayor of the City of Strasbourg France

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

Samir BEHARIĆ Research Officer at The Balkan Forum Bosnia and Herzegovina

Manal BENANI Debating Europe / Africa Algeria

Sarah BENTZ Head of Mission Strasbourg European Capital and European Networks, Grand Est Region France

Bjørn BERGE Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe

Nina BJÖRBY Regional Councillor of Västerbotten (SE), Assembly of European Regions' Vice President for Democracy Sweden

Andrew BOFF Member of the Monitoring Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe United Kingdom

Sylvie BOLLINI Senior Adviser in the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees San Marino

Christine BORRAS-JOLY Director of Youth, Sports and Engagement, Grand Est Region France

Darko BRKAN Director of UG „Zasto ne“ Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alessandra CARDACI Project Manager at Debating Europe Belgium

Helfried CARL Founder and Chief Political Strategist at the Innovation in Politics Institute Austria

Kevin CASAS-ZAMORA Secretary-General of International IDEA

Orhan CEKA Executive Director of Liberal Alternative Institute North Macedonia

Dita CHARANZOVÁ Vice-President of the European Parliament

Mathias CHARLES President of Live Love France & International

Claudia CHWALISZ Founder and CEO, DemocracyNext

Alicia COMBAZ Founder and CEO of Make.org France

Simon COVENEY Minister for Foreign Affairs Ireland

Colin CROUCH Professor Emeritus, Warwick University, author “Post-Democracy: After the Crises” United Kingdom

Marin CULJAK Head of Mayor’s Office in the City of Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tomislav DAMNJANOVIĆ Campaign strategist and Founder of Mandate Serbia

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

Yves DEJAEGHERE Executive Director, Federation for Innovation in Democracy Europe Belgium

Élisabeth DEL GENINI Vice-President of the Territories Commission, delegate for citizenship and commitment, Grand Est Region France

Constantinos EFSTHATIOU Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-PACE Cyrpus

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

Mohammed EL-QUAZZANI HASSANI Youth Delegate Morocco

Tsakhia ELBEGDORJ President of Mongolia (2009 -2017) and Member of Club de Madrid Mongolia

Peter EMERSON Borda Institute

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

Tobias ERNST Managing director of Kiron, Winner of the Democracy Innovation award 2016 Germany

Hamed FAILQOOS KHAN Youth Delegate Afghanistan

Nabil FELAH Senior Strategy advisor to governments and Co-founder of "Madha Yahduth?” (What's going on?) Tunisia

Volodymyr FLONTS Head of E-Democracy NGO Ukraine

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

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

Marco GAROFALO Photojournalist and Founder of Concrete Jungle Italy

Tiffany GEARA President and Co-founder of Lebanon 2.0 Lebanon

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

Annette GERLACH Journalist and TV Host, ARTE

Armen GEVORGYAN PACE member Armenia

Tom GIBSON EU Representative and Advocacy Manager, Committee to Protect Journalists Belgium

Tatiana GLUSHKOVA Head of Advocacy and elected a Board Member of Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre Russian Federation

Amuriat GORETTI “Women of Uganda Network” (WOUGNET), Democracy Innovation Award winner of 2013 Uganda

Andrea GRANATA Youth Delegate Italy

Matjaž GRUDEN Director, Directorate of Democratic Participation, Council of Europe

Carlos GUADAMUZ Executive Director of The Hague Peace Projects The Netherlands

Jasminko HALILOVIC Founder and general director of the War Childhood Museum Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nuala HAYES Chairperson of Storytellers of Ireland/ Aos Scéal Eireann Ireland

Jürgen HEISSEL Director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Dominik HIERLEMANN Senior advisor on citizen participation and European democracy, Bertelsmann Foundation Germany

Joan HOEY Europe Director and Editor of the Democracy Index, EIU

Valerie HOPKINS Correspondent of the New York Times covering Russia & Ukraine

Yuliya HVOZDOVYCH Former City Councillor of Lviv Ukraine

Alejandra IBARRA CHAOUL Journalist and author Mexico

Anne IRERI Executive director at the Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya Kenya

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

Katrín JAKOBSDÓTTIR Prime Minister Iceland

Ankourao KALLA Vice-President of the National Assembly Niger

Louise KANZA Youth Delegate Democratic Republic of Congo

Simon KEBEDE TESSEMA Executive Manager at Vote Le Ethiopiaye Ethiopia

Anthony KEFALAS Vice-Chair, Economist and Co-Author of Mckinsey Strategy Plan

Ana KEKOSHVILI Youth Delegate Georgia

Nato KHASAYA Youth Delegate Russian Federation

George KHELASHVILI Deputy chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Parliament of Georgia Georgia

Dino KLEPO Founder of Gastarbajter Germany

Anna KNOBBOUT Representative of Euro Youth Mental Health on the Advisory Council on Youth the Netherlands

Christina KOKKINAKIS Director for Values and Multilateral Relations, European External Action Service

Oleksander KORNIENKO First Deputy Chief of the Parliament of Ukraine Ukraine

Tiny KOX President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Maryna KRAVETS Member of "Young Agents of Change" Ukraine

Pratik KUNWAR Youth Delegate Nepal

Ricardo LAGOS President of Chile (2000-2006) and Member of Club de Madrid Chile

Stéphanie LAULHE SHAELOU Professor of European Law & Reform at UCLan Cyprus and Founder of CSO ICLAIM Cyprus

Hamzat LAWAL “Follow the Money”, Democracy Innovation Award Winner in 2019 Nigeria

Armel LE COZ Co-founder and coordinator of the NGO "Démocratie Ouverte" France

Luna Lara LIBONI Policy Officer, Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Marko LONČAR Member of the Advisory Council on Youth Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

Reem MAGHRIBI Head of the non-profit organization Sharq.Org Libanon

Anahi MARTINEZ Monitoring, Evaluation and Civil Society Manager, LevizAlbania Albania

Nicolas MATT Vice president of the Communauté Européenne d’Alsace France

Kyle MATTHEWS Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University Canada

Edel McGINLEY Director of Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

Eric MEERKAMPER Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies Canada

Louis METCALFE Conflict Prevention and Stabilization Specialist USA

Vladimir MIJATOVIC Youth Delegate Serbia

Vladimir MILOV Research Associate Martens Centre for European Studies Russian Federation

Lauren MOONEY Conflict prevention and stabilization senior specialist at International Republican Institute

Mariella MORBIDELLI Bagages à Main BAM Italy

Sandy MOSS Ambassador, Permanent Representative of United Kingdom to the Council of Europe United Kingdom

Romaric MOUFTAOU Public Policy Specialist, Founder of the New Type of Citizens Movement Benin

Paula MUEHL Youth Delegate Germany

Nils MUIŽNIEKS Director, Europe Regional Office, Amnesty International. Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (2012–2018)

Courteney (Takura) MUKOYI Founder of Justice Code Foundation Zimbabwe

Elena NEMIROVSKAYA Co-founder of the School of Civic Education

Beatrice NICOLINI Professor of History and Institutions of Africa and Religions, Conflicts and Slavery at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano Italy

Elmira NOGOIBAEVA Founder of the School of Civic Education, Team Leader at Polis Asia, Founder of the Esimde platform Kyrgyzstan

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

Adam NYMAN Co-founder of Debating Europe and Debating Africa Belgium

Patricia O’LYNN Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland, Alliance Party Northern Ireland

Art O'LEARY Secretary General of the Electoral Commission Ireland

Samuel OBENG Executive Director at Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) Ghana

Georges OHANESSIAN Youth Delegate Lebanon

Ijeoma OKEREKE-ADAGBA CoE Youth Delegation Rapporteur, Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) Nigeria

Ana OPRISAN ROMACT Programme Manager at Council of Europe

Leoluca ORLANDO Former Mayor of Palermo (1985–1990, 1993–2000 and 2012–2022) Italy

Despoina PANTELI Youth Delegate Greece

Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Valery PERRY Senior Associate, Democratization Policy Council

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

Ben PHILLIPS Activist organiser for justice, United Nations, author of "How to Fight Inequality"

Lev PONOMAREV Executive Director of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights"

Freya PROUDMAN Young European Ambassador for EU Neighbours East UK / USA

Gazela PUDAR DRAŠKO Director Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade Serbia

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

Riccardo REDAELLI Director of the Center for Research on the Southern System and Wider Mediterranean (CRiSSMA) Italy

Oleksandr RESHETKOV Secretary General, European Democracy Youth Network

Julia RETTIG Programme Manager, European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) France

Lou RISSLE Youth Delegate Switzerland

Lucian ROMAȘCANU Minister of Culture Romania

Xavier ROMERO VIDAL Deputy Director of the Centre for the Future of Democracy, University of Cambridge, and Research Associate at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid United Kingdom

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

Pilar RUBIO ESPEJO Superior Technician at Ministry of Social Rights at Government of Catalonia Spain

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

Kateryna RYABIKO ODIHR’s First Deputy Director

Piotr SADOWSKI President of Social Platform

Geeta SESHU Journalist and media analyst, Founding Editor of the Free Speech Collective India

Dace SEVCENKO Communications, MyVoice Latvia

Rasha SHAABAN Founder and producer for Mind the Gap Egypt/Sweden

Stefan SINDELAR CEO of the European Capital of Democracy Non Profit Organisation Austria

Viktor SJÖSTRÖM Youth Leader for the department of culture and leisure of the muncipality of Simrishamn Sweden

Drew SULLIVAN Co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Bosnia and Herzegovina

Patipat SUMSUMPOW Co-Founder and product engineer at Opendream Co., Ltd. Thailand

James SUZANO Deputy Executive Director of Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain Bahrain

Tomohiko TANIGUCHI Professor, Keio University Japan

Alex TAYLOR European journalist

Abhishek THAKORE Founder of The Blue Ribbon Movement India

Achilles TSALTAS President of the Democracy & Culture Foundation United Kingdom

Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA Representative of the Belarussian democratic opposition

Dr Heidi TWOREK Research Chair and Associate Professor Canada

Prodromos TZOUNOPOULOS Youth Delegate to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Greece

Dr Evert van der ZWEERDE Professor of Political Philosophy The Netherlands

Marina VASIĆ Council of Europe

Lorenzo VELLA Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe Malta

Olivier VERAN Minister Delegate for Democratic Renewal, Government Spokesperson (since July 2022) France

Lt Col (Ret.) Alex VINDMAN retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, former Political-Military Affairs Officer USA

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

Dalit WOLF GOLAN Eco Peace Middle East, Democracy Innovation Award Winner 2021 Israel

Adrian ZALLA Youth Delegate Albania

Özge ZENCİR AKÇAKMAK Participant in “Generation Democracy”, Democracy Innovation Award winner of 2014 Türkiye

Carole ZIELINSKI Deputy Mayor of Strasbourg in charge of local democracy, citizen initiatives and participation and European citizenship France

Esther Vongai ZIMUDZI Youth Delegate Zimbabwe

Salome ZOURABICHVILI President of Georgia Georgia

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