Speakers

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

Luis Abinader
President, Dominican Republic

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

Luis Almagro
Director, Democracy Observatory, Casla Institute; Former Secretary General, Organization of American States, Uruguay/USA

Kim Aris
Activist; Son of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar/UK

Benedetta Berti
Secretary General, Parliamentary Assembly, NATO; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Italy/Belgium

George W. Bush
Former President, USA

Chan
Founding Member of Women Alliance Burma, Myanmar

Grace Davie
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter, UK

Tamara Dávila
Member, Executive Committee and National Board, Unamos, Nicaragua/Spain

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

Milo Đukanović
Former President, Montenegro

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

Massimo Faggioli
Professor of Historical Theology, Villanova University, Italy/USA

Jamie Fly
Chief Executive Officer, Freedom House; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, USA

Carl Gershman
Founding President, National Endowment for Democracy; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, USA

Armen Valerii Grigoryan
Former Secretary, Security Council, Armenia

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Former President, Lithuania

Robert Guest
Deputy Editor, The Economist, UK

Yuval Noah Harari
Author, Historian, Co-Founder of Sapienship, Distinguished Research Fellow at Cambridge University, Israel/UK

Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Founder, Women Journalists Without Chains & Tawakkol Karman Foundation; Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, Yemen

Roukaya Kasenally
Associate Professor, University of Mauritius; Chair, Steering Committee, Democratic Solidarity Africa, Mauritius

Ian Khama
Former President, Botswana

Roderich Kiesewetter
Member, Bundestag, Germany

Jakub Klepal
Executive Director, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia

Martin Kupka
Chair, Civic Democratic Party; Member, Chamber of Deputies, Czechia

Adam Michnik
Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza; Member, International Advisory Board, Forum 2000 Foundation, Poland

Ghia Nodia
Chair, Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development; Member, International Coalition for Democratic Renewal, Georgia

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

Petr Pavel
President, Czechia

Reinis Pozņaks
Member, European Parliament, Latvia

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

Iveta Radičová
Sociologist; Former Prime Minister; Member, International Advisory Board, Forum 2000 Foundation, Slovakia

Nacho Sánchez Amor
Member, European Parliament, Spain

Šárka Shoup
Director, Institute for Politics and Society, Czechia

Stan
Secretary of the Anti-Junta Forces Coordination Committee Mandalay (AFCC), Myanmar

Ivana Štefková
Member, Board of Directors, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia

His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan

Bhone Thit
Former Political Prisoner & Democracy Activist from University Students' Unions Alumni Force (USUAF), Myanmar

Penpa Tsering
Sikyong, Central Tibetan Administration, Tibet/India

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Head, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus, Belarus/Lithuania

Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Former President, Colombia

Pedro Urruchurtu
Director, International Relations, Office of Maria Corina Machado; Member, Democratic Solidarity Latin America, Venezuela/USA

Adam Vojtěch
Minister of Health, Czechia

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

Miloš Vystrčil
President, Senate of the Parliament, Czechia

Lech Wałęsa
Former President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Poland

Christopher Walker
Vice President, CEPA; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, USA

Fredrik Wesslau
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Sweden

Tomoyuki Yoshida
Chief Executive Director, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, UK/Spain

Michael Žantovský
Senior Fellow, Prague Center for Transatlantic Relations; Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czechia