Fonteh Akum
Programme Head, Dakar office of the Institute for Security Studies
Speakers
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The Forum 2000 Conference along with other gatherings takes place in Prague and a number of other cities.
Since 1997 the conference has attracted a wide array of illustrious personalities, Nobel prize laureates, former and current politicians, businessmen, and many others. Their common experience is carrying the weight of responsibility.
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Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State
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Luis Almagro
Secretary General, Organization of American States
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Jamil Anderlini
Asia Editor, Financial Times
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Jaime Aparicio-Otero
Representative of Bolivia, Organization of American States
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Lorena Becerra
Political Analyst, Head of Public Opinion Research, Reforma
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Benedetta Berti
Head, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO
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Ladan Boroumand
Historian
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Amaya Eva Coppens Zamora
Political Activist
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Gyula Csák
Director, Hungarian Service, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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Tony Curzon Price
Economist, Editor, Entrepreneur
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Aisha Dabo
Journalist, Member of Africtivistes
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Neelam Deo
Co-Founder, Gateway House
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Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Professor, Freeman Spogli Institute, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Eileen Donahoe
Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University
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Can Dündar
Former Editor-in-Chief, Cumhuriyet
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Emine Dzhaparova
First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Human Rights Activist, Former Judge
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Elizabeth Economy
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Martin Ehl
Chief Analyst, Hospodářské noviny
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Alice Ekman
Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
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Theresa Fallon
Founder and director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies
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Sergio Fausto
General Director, Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation
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Marco Antonio Fernández Martinéz
Research Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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Jamie Fly
Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund
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Ralf Fücks
Managing Director, Center for Liberal Modernity
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Thomas E. Garrett
Secretary General, Community of Democracies
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Timothy Garton Ash
Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
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Carl Gershman
President, National Endowment for Democracy
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Arzu Geybulla
Columnist, Writer
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Arunabha Ghosh
Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
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Anthony Giddens
Sociologist, Member of the House of Lords
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Eamon Gilmore
Special Representative for Human Rights, European Union
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Ken Godfrey
Executive Director, European Partnership for Democracy
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Yossi Klein Halevi
Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute
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David Harris
Chief Executive Officer, American Jewish Committee
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Ivan M. Havel
Scientist
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Zdeněk Hřib
Mayor of Prague
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Ketevan Chachava
Executive Director, Center for Development and Democracy
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Ketty W. Chen
Vice President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD)
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Hasler Iglesias
National Youth Coordinator, Voluntad Popular
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Maiko Ichihara
Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University
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Ramin Jahanbegloo
Political Philosopher, Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation
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Věra Jourová
Vice-President for Values and Transparency, European Commission
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Irena Kalhousová
Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation
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Vladimir V. Kara-Murza
Chairman, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom
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Garry Kasparov
Human Rights Activist
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Jakub Klepal
Executive Director, Forum 2000 Foundation
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Miriam Kornblith
Senior Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy
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Milica Kovačević
President, Center for Democratic Transition
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David J. Kramer
Senior Fellow, School of International & Public Affairs, Florida International University
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William Kristol
Political Analyst, Founder, The Weekly Standard
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Charles A. Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
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Wai Ting Loretta Lau
Artist, Activist
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Deputy Chairwoman, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
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Šarūnas Liekis
Dean, Political Science and Diplomacy Faculty, Vytautas Magnus University
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Anna Lührmann
Deputy Director, Varieties of Democracy Institute
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Amichai Magen
Head of Diplomacy & Conflict Studies, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
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Nyaradzo Mashayamombe
Women’s Human Rights Activist
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Marie Mendras
Research Fellow, Centre de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po
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Mikuláš Minář
Chairman, Milion Moments for Democracy
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Derek Mitchell
President, National Democratic Institute
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Bedřich Moldan
Founder, Environment Center, Charles University
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Joshua Muravchik
Author, Foreign Policy Expert
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Asha Ahmed Mwilu
Journalist
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Farida Nabourema
Writer, Political Activist
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Patricio Navia
Political Scientist
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Luisa Neubauer
Climate activist
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Paulina Neuding
Editor and Publisher
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Andréa Papus Ngombet Malewa
Activist, Presidential Candidate
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Mareike Ohlberg
Senior Fellow, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Natalia Otel Belan
Regional Director, Europe/Eurasia, Center for International Private Enterprise
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Šimon Pánek
Co-Founder and Director, People in Need
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Rosa María Payá Acevedo
President, Latin American Youth Network for Democracy
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Tomáš Petříček
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Lucrezia Poggetti
Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
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Alina Polyakova
President and CEO, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
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Jerzy Pomianowski
Executive Director, European Endowment for Democracy
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Martin Povejšil
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Charles Powell
Director, Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies
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Kateřina Procházková
Journalist, Sinopsis
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Vesna Pusić
Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Professor, University of Zagreb
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Xiao Qiang
Founder and Chief Editor, China Digital Times
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Iveta Radičová
Sociologist, Former Prime Minister, Member, Forum 2000 International Advisory Board Slovakia
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Shalini Randeria
Rector, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
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Erika Guevara Rosas
Americas Director, Amnesty International
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Libor Rouček
Co-Chair, Czech-German Discussion Forum
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Jacques Rupnik
Political Scientist, Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
Economist, Columbia University
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Luís de Almeida Sampaio
Ambassador of Portugal
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Lobsang Sangay
President, Central Tibetan Administration
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Saskia Sassen
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Natan Sharansky
Politician, Human Rights Activis
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Jeffrey Smith
Founding Director, Vanguard Africa and the Vanguard Africa Foundation
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Tamara Sujú
Human Rights Lawyer
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Jan Švejnar
Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University, IDEA/CERGE-EI
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Alison Taylor
Executive Director, Ethical Systems
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Ing-wen Tsai
President, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Opposition Leader
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Nury A. Turkel
Commissioner, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
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Andrea Virág
Director of Strategy, Republikon Institue
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Konstantin von Eggert
Commentator, Deutsche Welle
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Alexandr Vondra
Member, European Parliament
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Hlib Vyshlinsky
Executive Director, Centre for Economic Strategy
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Miloš Vystrčil
President of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic
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Christopher Walker
Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy
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Gert Weisskirchen
Politician, Professor, Former Member, German Bundestag
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Karolina Wigura
Sociologist, Journalist, Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation
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Joshua Wong
Democracy Activist, Student Leader
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Jaushieh Joseph Wu
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Maha Yahya
Director, Carnegie Middle East Center
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Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Europe
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, SDB
Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong
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Jan Zielonka
Professor, University of Oxford
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Andrey Zubov
Historian
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Michael Žantovský
Executive Director, Václav Havel Library
