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Speakers

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

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Founder and Chairman of The Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Keynote Speaker

Ingrida Šimonytė

Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania

Keynote Speaker

Roberta Metsola

President of the European Parliament

Volodymyr Zelenskyy*

President of Ukraine

Věra Jourová

Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency

Keynote Speaker

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

National Leader, Belarus

Eric Schmidt*

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

Leopoldo Lopez

Activist and Co-founder of the World Liberty Congress

Keynote Speaker

Brad Smith

President and Vice Chair, Microsoft

Anna Herrhausen

Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Ben Crawford

CEO, CentralNic

Dan Negrea

Senior Director, Freedom and Prosperity Center, Atlantic Council

Daniel Twining

President of International Republican Institute, United States

Darya Koltsova

Ukrainian Artist and Author of “Theory of protection”

David Aragort

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Fact-ing Database (Venezuela)

Derek Mitchell (Introducer)

President of National Democratic Institute, United States

Federica Vinci

2020 Obama Foundation Leader (Italy)

Freddy Tshiong-Tso Lim

Member of Parliament, Taiwan

Frederick Kempe

President and CEO of Atlantic Council

Fri Asanga

Chief Executive Officer, Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation

Ginny Badanes

General Manager, Democracy Forward, Microsoft

Giorgi Kakhiani

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Now Repost (Georgia)

Gyde Jensen

Member of the German Parliament

Irakli Kavtaradze

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Z-Axis (Georgia)

Ivo H. Daalder

President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, host of World Review with Ivo Daalder

Keynote Speaker

Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)

Moderator and Co-host, SpyTalk Podcast, TCEI member and former anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News

Jeppe Kofod

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Keynote Speaker

Jonas Parello-Plesner (Moderator)

Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Kent Walker

President, Global Affairs, Google

Ketevan Bosikashvili

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Supernova (Georgia)

Kimberley Chen

Taiwan-based, Australian Singer

Lakshmi Sampath Goyal

Chief Executive Officer at Centre for Civil Society

Leonid Volkov

Former Chief of Staff for Alexey Navalny

Lisbeth Pilegaard

Chair of Executive Committee, European Endowment for Democracy

Lucy Akello

Member of the Ugandan Parliament

Luis Fornez

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Candydato (Venezuela)

Marina Weisband

Digital Expert, Politician and Author

Mark Warner

Member of the United States Senate

Markus Reinisch

Vice President Public Policy Europe, Middle East and Africa, Meta

Matthew Kroenig

Deputy Director, Scowcroft Center, Atlantic Council

Michael Chertoff

Co-Chair of the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI), Former US Homeland Security Secretary

Mircea Geoană

NATO Deputy Secretary General

Nancy Cooper

Global Editor in Chief, Newsweek

Natalie Sedletska

Investigative reporter, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Ukrainian Service)

Nico Jaspers

CEO of Latana

Olaf Steenfadt

Director of Journalism Trust Initiative, Reporters Without Borders

Pierre Collignon

Moderator and Opinions editor, Berlingske

Rachel Samrén (Moderator)

Responsible Business and External Affairs Advisor

Robert Berschinski

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy and Human Rights, White House National Security Council

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth

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

Selvije Mustafi

2022 Obama Foundation Leader (North Macedonia)

Sergio Alcocer

President, Mexican Council of Foreign Affairs (COMEXI); former Under Secretary for North America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen (Judge)

Co-founder at Radiobotics, author, business owner & award-winning entrepreneur

Sujeet Kumar

Member of the Indian Parliament

Tamara Tachynska

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Qela App (Ukraine)

Thomas Rohden

Chairman of the Danish China Critical Society

Tommy Ahlers

Panellist and Former Minister for Higher Education and Science, Former Member of the Danish Parliament, Climate Tech Investor

Tony Woods

Panellist and Executive Director, Quad Fellowships, Schmidt Futures

Tudor Iulian Bradatan

2022 Obama Foundation Leader (Romania)

Uzra Zeya

Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, U.S. Department of State

Volodymyr Tarnay

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Market Research Tool (Ukraine)

Wolfgang Niedermark

Member of the Executive Board, The Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Yevhen Popov

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Politscanner (Ukraine)

蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen*

President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

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