Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers

Explore more than 18 years of talks, panels, and performances by the world’s top pro-democracy advocates.

2026 Speakers

Abdullah Ibhais

Media Strategy Expert and FIFA World Cup Qatar Whistleblower

Anne Lindboe

Mayor of Oslo

Benjamin Skinner

Founder and Principal, Transparentem

Carine Kanimba

Daughter of Paul Rusesabagina and spokesperson for the World Liberty Congress

Carmen Lau

Hong Kong Activist and Former Elected District Councillor

Chemi Lhamo

Tibetan activist and community organizer

Dr. Álvaro Salas-Castro

President & Chief Executive Officer, The Reynolds Foundation

Farida Nabourema

Founder, Africa Bitcoin Conference; Genesis Committee, Finney Freedom Prize

Jacob Mchangama

Founder and Executive Director, The Future of Free Speech

Leopoldo López

Co-founder, World Liberty Congress; Venezuelan Opposition Leader

Lia Gazi

Crimean Tatar Activist

Lobsang Sangay

Former president of the Tibetan government

Luaty Beirão

Angolan Dissident Rapper

María Corina Machado

Venezuelan Opposition Leader

Mohammad Al Abdallah

Executive Director of Syria Justice and Accountability Centre

Noor Pahlavi

Iranian Human Rights Advocate

Richard Gere

Actor, Producer, and Humanitarian

Salome Zourabichvili

President of Georgia

Sergey Tihanovski

Belarusian Opposition Leader and Former Presidential Candidate

Steven Kefas

Nigerian Journalist and Human Rights Activist

Sulaima Ishaq Elkhalifa Sharif

Sudanese activist, Head of the Combating Violence Against Women Unit, Sudanese Ministry of Social Development

Supriya Sharma

Executive Editor of Scroll

Tanele Maseko

Swazi Activist and Widow of Thulani Maseko

Thin Lei Win

Burmese Journalist and Co-Founder of The Kite Tales

Yirgalem Fisseha

Eritrean Writer and Former Political Prisoner

All Speakers

Abdalaziz Alhamza

Syrian citizen journalist and co-founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS)

Abdellah Taia

Moroccan novelist and filmmaker

Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani

Yemeni journalist

Abdullah Ibhais

Media Strategy Expert and FIFA World Cup Qatar Whistleblower

Abdulrahman Al-Mawwas

Co-founder and archive manager of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets)

Abebe Gellaw

Ethiopian journalist and activist

Abraham Jiménez Enoa

Exiled Cuban journalist and author

Adam Roa

Motivational speaker

Afua Hirsch

Ghanaian-British journalist, barrister, and human rights activist

Agather Atuhaire

Lawyer, human rights defender, journalist

Agnes Callamard

Secretary General of Amnesty International

Ahmed Al Omran

Saudi blogger and activist

Ahmed Albasheer

Iraqi political satirist and comedian

Ahmed Alkhatib

Director of Realign For Palestine and resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council

Ahmed Benchemsi

Moroccan journalist

Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury

Publisher, writer, and editor from Bangladesh

Akida Pulat

Uyghur activist

Alaa Murabit

Libyan activist and founder of The Voice of Libyan Women

Alejandro Toledo

Former president of Peru

Alexei Navalny

Leader of the Russian democratic opposition

Ali Abdulemam

Bahraini blogger and former prisoner of conscience

Ali Ferzat

Syrian political cartoonist

Alyaksandr Kazulin

Opposition activist and former rector of the Belarusian State University

Ambassador Marie Antoinette Sedin

Palestinian ambassador to Norway and Iceland

Ambiga Sreenevasan

Malaysian lawyer and judicial reform advocate

Aminatou Haidar

Sahrawi human rights activist

Amir Ahmad Nasr

Sudanese blogger and digital media and marketing consultant

Amira Yahyaoui

Activist and founder of Al Bawsala

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Undercover journalist

Anastasia Lin

Chinese-Canadian actress

Anastasia Shevchenko

Russian politician and opposition figure

Andrés Velasco

Chilean economist and professor