Rushan Abbas
Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs
Speakers
The list of speakers is regularly updated.
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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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Michael Abramowitz
President, Freedom House
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Alina Aflecailor
Activist, Human Rights Educator
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Fonteh Akum
Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies
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Abdulwahab Alkebsi
Managing Director for Programs, Center for International Private Enterprise
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Luis Almagro
Secretary General, Organization of American States
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His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Archbishop, Constantinople-New Rome
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Susanne Baumann
Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, Federal Foreign Office
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Lorena Becerra
Political Analyst, Head of Public Opinion Research, Reforma
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Gerardo Berthin
Director for Latin America and Caribbean, Freedom House
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Benedetta Berti
Head, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO
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Igor Blaževič
Programme Director, Prague Civil Society Centre
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Patrick Boehler
Head of Digital Strategy, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Director, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
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Ladan Boroumand
Historian
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Tanja A. Börzel
Professor of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
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Reinhard Bütikofer
Member of the European Parliament
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Kevin Casas-Zamora
Secretary General, International IDEA
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Manuel Cuesta Morúa
Activist, Founder, Progressive Arch
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Parsifal D'Sola
CEO of the Andrés Bello Foundation
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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Neelam Deo
Co-Founder, Gateway House
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Detmar Doering
Project Director for Central Europe and the Baltic States, Friedrich-Naumann Foundation
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Eileen Donahoe
Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University
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Oleksandra Drik
Head of the Board, Civic Lustration Committee
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Edipcia Juliana Dubón Castro
Pro-democracy and Women's Rights Advocate
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Lajla Fetic
Co-Project Lead of Ethics of Algorithms, Bertelsmann Stiftung
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Liana Fix
Programme Director for International Affairs, Körber-Stiftung
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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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Wolfgang Gerhardt
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
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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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Brian Glynn
Managing Director for the Americas, European External Action Service
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Martin Hála
Founder and Director, Sinopsis
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Samantha Hoffman
Senior Analyst, International Cyber Policy Centre, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Jan Hornát
Head of Department of North American Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
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Hun Joon Kim
Professor, Korea University
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Cristiana Chamorro
Founder, Violeta Chamorro Foundation
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Glanis Changachirere
Founder, Director, Institute for Young Women Development
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Dita Charanzová
Vice President, European Parliament
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Ketty W. Chen
Vice President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD)
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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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Shanthi Kalathil
Deputy Assistant to the President, Coordinator for Democracy&Human Rights, National Security Council
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Irena Kalhousová
Member, Program Council, Forum 2000 Foundation
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Marina Kaljurand
Member, European Parliament
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Vladimir V. Kara-Murza
Politician, author, historian
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Ivana Karásková
Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs
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David Kaye
Clinical Professor of Law, University of California
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Andrew Keen
Writer, Film Maker, Podcaster
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Gilles Kepel
Director, Middle East and Mediterranean Program, Ecole Normale Supérieure
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Thibaut Kleiner
Director for Policy, Strategy and Outreach, DG Connect
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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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David J. Kramer
Senior Fellow, School of International & Public Affairs, Florida International University
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Péter Krekó
Director, Political Capital Institute
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William Kristol
Political Analyst, Founder, The Weekly Standard
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Alexander Kryvosheyev
Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Eastern Europe, JTI
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Charles A. Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
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Kai-Olaf Lang
Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin)
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Sook-Jong Lee
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Representative, Asia Democracy Research Network
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Błażej Lenkowski
Political scientist, Entrepreneur
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Miriam Lexmann
Member, European Parliament
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Jan Lipavský
Member of Parliament, Czech Pirate Party
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Javi López
Chair, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, European Parliament
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Anna Lührmann
Candidate for German National Parliament (Bundestag), Green Party
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Amichai Magen
Head of Diplomacy & Conflict Studies, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
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Eduardo Magrani
President, National Institute for Data Protection
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Felipe González Márquez
Former Prime Minister of Spain
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Nyaradzo Mashayamombe
Women rights activist, Founding Executive Director, Tag a Life International (TaLI)
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Marie Mendras
Research Fellow, Centre de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po
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Adam Michnik
Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
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Vytautas Mitalas
Deputy Speaker, Seimas
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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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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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Paulina Neuding
Editor and Publisher
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Andréa Papus Ngombet Malewa
Activist and politician
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Khin Ohmar
Founder, Progressive Voice
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Jagannath Panda
Head of the East Asia Centre, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
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Šimon Pánek
Co-Founder and Director, People in Need
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Filip Pazderski
Head of the Democracy and Civil Society Programme/Analyst, Institute of Public Affairs
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Tomáš Petříček
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Iva Petříčková
Former Executive Director, Business Leaders Forum
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Hanno Pevkur
Vice-President of the Parliament, Republic of Estonia
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Oksana Pokalchuk
Director, Amnesty International Ukraine
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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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Oana Popescu-Zamfir
Director, GlobalFocus Center
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Andrea Procházková
Journalist, Respekt
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Kateřina Procházková
Journalist, Sinopsis
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Wojciech Przybylski
Editor in Chief, Res Publica Nowa
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Vesna Pusić
Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Professor, University of Zagreb
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Xiao Qiang
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, China Digital Times
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Iveta Radičová
Sociologist, Former Prime Minister, Member, Forum 2000 International Advisory Board
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Trisha Ray
Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
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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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Kateřina Šafaříková
Journalist
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
Economist, Columbia University
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Maia Sandu
President
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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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Miroslav Singer
Economist
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Jeffrey Smith
Founding Director, Vanguard Africa and the Vanguard Africa Foundation
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Tamara Sujú
Human rights defense attorney
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Kiryl Sukhotski
Director for Europe and TV production, RFE/RL
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Jonáš Syrovátka
Program Manager, Prague Security Studies Institute
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Réka Szemerkényi
Senior Advisor in Transatlantic Strategy, International Republican Institute
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Jan Šnaidauf
Chief Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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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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Nicolas Tenzer
Chairman, Study and Reflection Center for Political Action
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Tsai Ing-wen
President, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Opposition Leader
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Tolkun Umaraliev
Managing Editor, Digital, Current Time TV
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Francisak Viacorka
Senior Advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
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Alexandr Vondra
Member, European Parliament
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Miloš Vystrčil
President of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic
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Wai Wai Nu
Human Righst Activist
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Christopher Walker
Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy
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Karolina Wigura
Sociologist, Journalist, Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation
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Damon M. Wilson
President, CEO, National Endowment for Democracy
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Jaushieh Joseph Wu
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Constantino Xavier
Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress
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Yang Jianli
Opposition Leader
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Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Europe
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Aneta Zachová
Editor-in-chief, Euractiv.cz
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Eva Zamrazilová
Chairwoman, Czech Fiscal Council
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Yevgeniy Zhovtis
Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law
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Jan Zielonka
Professor, University of Oxford
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H.E. DAW ZIN MAR AUNG
Union Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Unity Government
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Michael Žantovský
Executive Director, Václav Havel Library
