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Speakers

We are delighted to have our esteemed speakers and democracy defenders to discuss how to strengthen and protect democracy

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Founder and Chairman of The Alliance of Democracies Foundation

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Zuzana Čaputová

President of Slovakia

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蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen*

President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

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Jeppe Kofod

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Juan Guaidó

Interim President of Venezuela

Věra Jourová

Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency

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Lisa Peterson

Senior Official for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights and Acting Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State

Adam Schiff

Member of Congress and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, United States

Olha Stefanishyna

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine

Aidan Eyakuze

Executive Director, Twaweza East Africa

Alexander Aghassipour

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Zendesk and Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship Mentor

Artur Gurau

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, VoteMe App

Artur Mija

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Anttscamp

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Author and founder of The AHA Foundation, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Colombe Cahen-Salvador

Co-founder of Now!

Damian Collins

Member of the House of Commons, The United Kingdom and Co-chair of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation

Daniel Twining

President of International Republican Institute, United States

Derek Mitchell (Introducer)

President of National Democratic Institute, United States

Eric Schmidt*

Chairman of the Special Competitive Studies Project, Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google

Felipe Calderón

Former President of Mexico

Flemming Rose

Danish Journalist, Author and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute

Fritz Mayer

Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver

Gen Nakatani

IPAC co-chair and Former Defense Minister, Japan

H. R. McMaster

Retd. U.S. Army Lieutenant General & U.S. National Security Advisor, Fouad & Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Jatzel Roman

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Dominican Republic

Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)

Host of the NatSec Tech podcast, TCEI member and former anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News

John Samples

Vice President, Cato Institute and Board Member, Facebook Oversight Board

Jonas Parello-Plesner (Moderator)

Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Jørn Larsen (Judge)

Founder of Trifork

Katharina Gellein

Director & Producer of “People you may know”, Metrotone Media

Kim Jørgensen

Head of Cabinet, Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission

Kimberley Kitching

Senator for Victoria, Australia

Larissa Rhodes

Producer of "The Social Dilemma", Head of Creative Development at Exposure Labs

Laura Chinchilla

Former President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Member of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age

Lisbeth Pilegaard

Chair of Executive Committee, European Endowment for Democracy

Maria Ressa

Filipino-American journalist and author, Co-founder and CEO Rappler, Philippines

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Marlène Schiappa

Minister Delegate of Citizenship, France

Michael Chertoff

Former Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009), United States

Natalie Jaresko

Executive Director The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico

Nathan Law

Democracy activist, frm. Member of Parliament, Hong Kong

Nico Jaspers

CEO of Latana

Nikita Lukianets

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, OpenEthics

Nino Macharashvili

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Quack Hunter

Regina Bondarenko

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Pravoman

Rt Hon Jeremy Wright QC

Member of the House of Commons; Former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2018-2019), UK

Ryan Heath

Editorial Director, Global Growth

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth

2022 Obama Foundation Leader (Denmark), Co-founder and CEO at CanopyLab

Sara Omar

Danish-Kurdish Author and human rights activst

Shashi Tharoor

Member of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation (IGCD), and former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of democratic Belarus

Tanit Koch

Former Managing Director N-tv and former Editor-in-Chief at Bild, Germany

Temur Chichua

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, NLP toolset

Tom Tugendhat

Member of Parliament and Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee, United Kingdom

Uffe Elbæk

Former Minister for Culture of Denmark and Co-founder, Frie Grønne (The Independent Greens), Denmark

Vijaya Gadde

Head of Legal, Public Policy, and Trust & Safety, Twitter

Wai Wai Nu

Burmese activist and the founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in Myanmar.

Werner Stengg

Cabinet Expert, Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission

Zainab Sulaiman Umar

Executive Director Initiative for Public Awareness and Development (IPAD)

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