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Speakers

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



*Please note that these speakers will participate virtually.
Keynote Speaker

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Founder and Chairman of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation

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Petr Pavel

President, Czech Republic

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蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen*

President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

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Kaja Kallas

Prime Minister, Estonia

Nancy Pelosi*

Speaker Emerita, 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives

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Liz Truss

Former Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy*

President of Ukraine

Bobi Wine

Political Leader, former Member of Parliament, Singer, and Actor

Oleksandra Matviichuk*

Head, Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

National Leader, Belarus

Condoleezza Rice*

Director, The Hoover Institution

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Jens Stoltenberg*

Secretary General, NATO

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Leopoldo Lopez (Introducer)

Activist and National Coordinator for Voluntad Popular

Eva Maydell

MEP and President of the European Movement International, Bulgaria

Alex C. Karp

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Masih Alinejad*

Author, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

Ahmad Massoud*

National Resistance Front of Afghanistan

Alexandra Hunger

Project Lead, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Ali Nazary (Introducer)

Head of Foreign Relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan

Andriy Yermak*

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

Ben Rhodes (Introducer)*

Senior Advisor, Obama Foundation

Bonnie Glick (Moderator)

Former Deputy Administrator and COO of the US Agency for International Development

Camilla Banja

Chief Business Development Officer and Partner, Assembly Voting

Carsten Sjoerup

Executive Vice President - Online, CentralNic Group PLC

Chan-jo Jun

Lawyer & Managing Partner, Jun Rechtsanwälte

Christopher Le Mon

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S Department of State

Cornelius Adebahr

Political analyst & policy fellow, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Daria Zarivna

Adviser, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

Derek Mitchell (Introducer)

President of National Democratic Institute, United States

Dovilė Šakalienė

Member of Parliament, Lithuania

Dubravka Šuica

Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography

Elisenda Ballesté Buxó (Moderator)

Project Coordinator, Global Democracy Coalition

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Eric Schmidt*

Chairman, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), frm. CEO & Chairman of Google

Eva Decroix

Member, Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic

Giorgi Kvinikadze

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, War Fake News Detector (Georgia)

Hardy Merriman

President, The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)

Helen Zhang (Judge)

Director, International Strategy Forum and Quad, Schmidt Futures and Co-founder, Intrigue Media

Jack Yao*

Taiwanese Ukraine fighter

Jameel Jaffer

Executive Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

Jannicke Nilsson

Executive Vice President, Safety, Security & Sustainability, Equinor

Joe Wang (Moderator)

Senior Director for Foreign Policy, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

Joern Larsen (Judge)

Founder and CEO, Trifork

Joey Siu

Hong Kong democracy activist and Asia-Pacific staff, National Democratic Institute

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Jonas Parello-Plesner (Moderator)

Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Jorge Jraissati

Freedom Advocate and Director for Alumni for Liberty

Kay Benesh

Advisor to Women Advocacy Coalition (Myanmar)

Kevin Casas-Zamora

Secretary-General, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)

Kimber Shearer (Introducer)

Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen*

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Lu (Tony) Zhi Hao*

Taiwanese Ukraine fighter

Lucy Akello

Member of Parliament, Uganda

Luke de Pulford (Moderator)

Executive Director, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)

Mantas Adomenas

Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

Maryam Al-Khawaja

Human rights activist, daughter of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (Bahrain)

Melissa Mahtani (Moderator)

Senior Producer/Reporter TV & Digital, CNN

Mia Wagner (Judge)

Co-Founder Nordic Female Founders, Investor, Board member

Naheed Farid

Afghanistan Parliamentarian in-exile, Chairperson of House Standing Committee for Women Affairs

Nare Hakobyan

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Data for Democracy (Armenia)

Nataliia Popovych

Civic activist, international communications expert and entrepreneur, chairperson of Ukraine House in Denmark, founder of One Philosophy

Natalya Chernogub

YC World, Open Data Association, Natalka Park (Ukraine)

Nathan Law

Democracy activist, frm. Member of Parliament, Hong Kong

Nico Jaspers

CEO, Latana

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca

Executive Vice President, Freedom House

Peter Søndergaard

Director of Programmes, European Endowment for Democracy

Rachel Samrén (Moderator)

Responsible Business and External Affairs Advisor

Raluca Gindea

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, People's Parliament (Moldova)

Solomiya Borshosh

Executive Director, Ukrainian Institute

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen (Judge)

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

Teona Tomashvili

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Askgov.Ge (Georgia)

Teresa Hutson

Corporate Vice President of Technology and Corporate Responsibility (TCR), Microsoft

Valeriya Ionan*

Deputy Minister for Eurointegration, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Veronica Tsepkalo

Chair, Belarus Women's Foundation

Viktor Nestulia

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, DREAM (Ukraine)

Wolfgang Niedermark

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

Ylli Bajraktari*

President and CEO, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

Zhanna Nemtsova

Journalist; Founder, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom

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Jamil Anderlini (Moderator)

Editor in Chief, POLITICO in Europe

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Jeanne Meserve (Moderator)

Moderator, Host of the NatSec Tech Podcast, TCEI Member and Former Anchor and Correspondent for CNN and ABC News

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