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Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers

Explore more than 15 years of talks, panels, and performances by the world’s top pro-democracy advocates.

2024 Speakers

Agather Atuhaire

Ugandan journalist and digital activist

Ahmed Alkhatib

Gazan writer and analyst

Ambassador Marie Antoinette Sedin

Palestinian ambassador to Norway and Iceland

Anastasia Shevchenko

Russian politician and opposition figure

Carlos Chamorro

Nicaraguan journalist in exile

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Researcher, founder of the Trauma Research Foundation, and New York Times best-selling author of “The Body Keeps the Score”

Espen Barth Eide

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Faisal Al Mutar

Founder and president, Ideas Beyond Borders

Georges Azzi

Gender and sexual rights activist

Gershon Baskin

Israeli columnist and political activist

Hilde Sandvik

Journalist, author, and creator of the award-winning podcast "Norsken, svensken og Dansken"

Jack Dorsey

CEO at Block; co-founder, Twitter

Lyn Alden

Macroeconomist; author of “Broken Money”

Mustafa Barghouti

Head of the Palestinian National Initiative

Olga González

Venezuelan human rights activist

Paul Rusesabagina

Humanitarian and real-life hero of “Hotel Rwanda”

Raqib Hameed Naik

Founder India Hate Lab & Hindutva Watch

Sam Rainsy

Co-founder of Cambodia's main opposition party

Sebastien Lai

Son of Jimmy Lai, founder of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper

Zhala Bayramova

Child Of Azerbaijani Political Prisoner On A Quest To Free Their Father

Past Speakers

Rafael Marques de Morais

Angolan journalist and civil rights activist

Ramón José Velázquez

Venezuelan politician, journalist, and lawyer

Raqib Hameed Naik

Founder India Hate Lab & Hindutva Watch

Rayma Suprani

Venezuelan political cartoonist

Rebecca MacKinnon

American journalist, digital rights activist, and co-founder of Global Voices

Rebiya Kadeer

Prominent Uyghur leader, entrepreneur, and former political prisoner

Rick Doblin

Founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and Researcher focused on PTSD

Roar Hagen

Norwegian political cartoonist

Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez

Cuban journalist

Roman Dobrokhotov

Russian investigative journalist

Rosa María Payá

Cuban pro-democracy activist and founder, Cuba Decide

Roya Mahboob

Afghan tech entrepreneur

Saad Mohseni

Chairman and CEO of MOBY Group

Sam Rainsy

Co-founder of Cambodia's main opposition party

Samuel Kofi Woods

Liberian journalist, human rights activist, and politician

Sanaa Seif

Egyptian filmmaker and activist

Sandra Rodríguez Nieto

Mexican investigative journalist

Sasa Vucinic

Serbian journalist

Scott Carpenter

Director of policy and international engagement at Jigsaw

Sebastien Lai

Son of Jimmy Lai, founder of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper

Shakeela Ebrahimkhil

Afghan journalist

Sharofiddin Gadoev

Tajik opposition politician

Shiraz Maher

Writer and Islamic extremism expert

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian judge and Nobel Laureate

Shorna Shahida Akter

Child marriage abolitionist

Shui-Meng Ng

Singaporean activist and wife of disappeared Laotian civil society leader Sombath Somphone

Siegmar Faust

German writer and former political prisoner

Sima Samar

Afghan human rights advocate and minister for Women's Affair of Afghanistan

Somaly Mam

Cambodian anti-trafficking advocate

Sophal Ear

Political scientist, economist, and survivor of the Cambodian genocide

Soraya Bahgat

Egyptian-Finnish actvist and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard

Srdja Popovic

Co-founder, CANVAS