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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.

2025 Speakers

Ani Chkhikvadze

Georgian independent journalist

Anne Lindboe

Mayor of Oslo

Azza Abo Rebieh

Syrian artist and activist

Dr. Dan Siegel

MD, Co-founder and Director of Education at Mindsight Institute

Enrique Del Risco

Cuban writer and professor

Evgenia Kara-Murza

Project manager at the Free Russia Foundation

Irina Schoulgin-Nyoni

Ambassador for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Kim Yumi

North Korean defector and YouTube content creator

Maria Sarungi Tsehai

Tanzanian human rights activist and journalist

Nyrola Elimä

Uyghur journalist

Parit Wacharasindhu

Thai Opposition Politician

Pavel Durov

CEO and founder of Telegram

Sir William Browder

Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign

Sulaima Ishaq Elkhalifa Sharif

Sudanese women’s rights activist

Venâncio Mondlane

Mozambican democratic opposition leader

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russian democracy activist

Yulia Navalnaya

Chair of the Human Rights Foundation

Past Speakers

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

Sir William Browder

Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign

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

Executive Director, Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies

Stephanie Sinclair

American photojournalist

Steve Jurvetson

American venture capitalist

Steven Levitsky

Comparative political scientist

Steven Pinker

Leading authority on language and the mind and author

Sulaima Ishaq Elkhalifa Sharif

Sudanese women’s rights activist

Suleiman Bakhit

Jordanian social entrepreneur, comicbook author, and activist

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of the Belarusian democratic movement

Svitlana Zalishcuk

Ukrainian politician and human rights activist

Tanele Maseko

Tanele Maseko, Swazi human rights activist and CEO of the Thulani Maseko Foundation

Tania Bruguera

Cuban installation and performance artist

Tatsiana Khomich

Belarusian activist and sister of political prisoner Maria Kalesnikava

Tawakkol Karman

Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Thae Yong-Ho

Former North Korean diplomat

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit

Thai opposition leader

Thich Quang Do

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and rights advocate

Thomas Glave

Jamaican-American author and LGBT rights activist

Thulani Maseko

Swazi human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist

Ti-Anna Wang

Chinese human rights advocate and lawyer

Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Author and technologist

Tomas van Houtryve

Photojournalist

Toribia Lero Quispe

Bolivian assembly woman and opposition leader