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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

Toufah Jallow

Gambian anti-rape activist and founder of the Toufah Foundation

Tutu Alicante

Human rights lawyer and activist

Uki Goñi

Argentinian author and journalist

Urmila Chaudhary

Abolitionist and former child domestic slave

Václav Havel

Czech statesman, first president of the Czech Republic and former Human Rights Foundation chairman

Vanessa Tsehaye

Eritrean human rights activist

Venâncio Mondlane

Mozambican democratic opposition leader

Veronica Tsepkalo

Chair of Belarus Women's Foundation

Vian Dakhil

Yazidi member of Iraqi Parliament

Victor Hugo Cárdenas

Former vice president of Bolivia

Víctor Navarro

Venezuelan human rights activist

Victoria Villarruel

Argentinian lawyer and politician

Viktor Yushchenko

Third Ukrainian president

Vincent Manoharan

Founder of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)

Violet Banda

Malawian reporter

Vivek Maru

Founder and CEO of Namati

Vladimir Bukovsky

Writer and Soviet dissident

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russian democracy activist

Vo Van Ai

Vietnamese rights activist, journalist, historian, and poet

Vytautas Landsbergis

Lithuanian politician

Wael Ghonim

Egyptian cyberactivist and leader of the 2011 Revolution

Wai Hnin Pwint Thon

Burmese pro-democracy activist

Wai Wai Nu

Rohingya Burmese activist and former political prisoner

Wan Yanhai

Chinese HIV/AIDS activist

William Dobson

American foreign affairs journalist and author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian playwright and poet

Wu’er Kaixi

General Secretary at the Taiwan Parliamentary Human Rights Commission

Xavier “Bonil” Bonilla

Ecuadorean political cartoonist

Yang Jianli

Chinese pro-democracy activist

Yeonmi Park

Human rights activist and North Korean defector

Yoani Sánchez

Cuban jornalist, author and human rights activist

Yuan Yang

Financial Times’ Europe-China correspondent