Speakers

Featured below are speakers from the public program of the conference.

Rushan Abbas
Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, USA

Mantas Adomėnas
Secretary General, Community of Democracies, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, Lithuania

Boban Batrićević
Executive Director, WestBalkanNet, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, Montenegro

Maksym Butkevych
Chair, Principle of Hope, Ukraine

Ketevan Chachava
Executive Director, Center for Development and Democracy, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, Georgia

Dita Charanzová
Former Vice President, European Parliament, Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia/Belgium

Joan Chirwa
Founder and Executive Director, Zambia Free Press Initiative; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Zambia

Katalin Cseh
Member, Committee on European Affairs, National Assembly, Hungary

Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Stanford University, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, USA

Norman Eisen
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA

His Beatitude Epiphanius I of Ukraine
Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine

Jamie Fly
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, USA

Ralf Fücks
Managing Director, Center for Liberal Modernity, Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, Germany

Carl Gershman
Founding President, National Endowment for Democracy, USA

Fernando Adolfo Iglesias
President, Foreign Affairs Commission, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina

Anaïse Kanimba
Daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, Director, Africa Bitcoin Institute, Rwanda/USA

Ali Karimli
Opposition Leader, Azerbaijan

Roderich Kiesewetter
Member, Deutscher Bundestag, Germany

Suki Kim
Author, South Korea/USA

Jakub Klepal
Executive Director, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
Chair, Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the EU, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

Taro Kono
Member, House of Representatives, Japan

Oleksandr Korniyenko
First Deputy Chair, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

Mark Lambert
Former China Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, USA

Da-Chi Liao
President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, Taiwan

Jan Lipavský
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czechia

Jan Macháček
President, Strategeo Institute, Czechia

María Corina Machado
Opposition Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Venezuela

Šimon Pánek
Executive Director, People in Need, Member, International Advisory Board, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia

Petr Pavel
President, Czechia

Lucie Pilipová
Member, Board of Directors, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia

Reinis Poznaks
Member, Committee on Security and Defense, European Parliament, Latvia

Vesna Pusić
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Croatia

Iveta Radičová
Sociologist, Former Prime Minister, Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Slovakia

Swasti Rao
Associate Professor, Jindal Global University, India

Raymond Mujuni
Co-Founder and Deputy Director, African Institute for Investigative Journalism, Member, Democratic Solidarity Africa, Uganda

Rangsiman Rome
Chair, Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategy and National Reform, House of Representatives, Thailand

Maciej Ruczaj
Senior Fellow, Prague Center for Transatlantic Relations, Poland

Bakary Sambe
President, Timbuktu Institute, Senegal

Tomáš Sedláček
Director, Václav Havel Library, Czechia

Lucie Šestáková
Head of Cabinet, Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission, Czechia/Belgium

Ivone Soares
Member, Assembly of the Republic, Mozambique

Anita Soina
Founder, The Soina Foundation, Member, Democratic Solidarity Africa, Kenya

Sigita Struberga
Secretary General, Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Latvia

Laura Thornton
Senior Director, McCain Institute, USA

Penpa Tsering
President, Central Tibetan Administration, Tibet/India

Emeka Lucky Umejei
Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica, Nigeria/Taiwan

Alexandr Vondra
Member, European Parliament, Member, Board of Directors, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia

Shiori Yamao
Japan Director, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, Japan

Salome Zourabichvili
Fifth President, Georgia