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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

Maajid Nawaz

Author, politician, and founding chairman of Quilliam

Mac-Jordan Degadjor

Ghanaian tech blogger and media entrepreneur

Mads Brügger

Danish journalist and filmmaker

Mai Khoi

Vietnamese pop star and political activist

Malahat Nasibova

Human rights activist

Malcolm Bidali

Migrant workers’ rights activist

Manal al-Sharif

Saudi activist and Women2Drive organizer

Marc Ona Essangui

Gabonese environmentalist and human rights activist

Marc Wachtenheim

International development expert and democracy activist

Marcel Granier

Venezuelan journalist and media entrepreneur

Marcela Turati Munoz

Mexican investigative journalist and author

Maria Sarungi Tsehai

Tanzanian human rights activist and journalist

Maria Toorpakai Wazir

Professional squash player

Marina Nemat

Iranian author and former prisoner of conscience

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author, journalist, and former politician

Mart Laar

Estonian politician and historian

Maryam Al-Khawaja

Bahraini activist and founder of Al-Khawaja Consulting

Maryam Faghihimani

Iranian human rights scholar and activist

Maryam Nayeb Yazdi

Iranian-Canadian activist and editor-in-chief of Persian2English

Masih Alinejad

Iranian journalist and human rights activist

Mauricio Rodas

Ecuadorean economist

Maziar Bahari

Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and former prisoner of conscience

Megha Rajagopalan

Journalist

Melissa Chan

Foreign affairs journalist

Memory Mbewe

Malawi anti-child marriage advocate

Meron Estefanos

Swedish-Eritrean journalist, activist and advocate of victims of trafficking and torture

Michael Anti

Chinese journalist and political blogger

Michela Wrong

Journalist

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman and opposition activist

Mohamed Nagi Alassam

Sudanese doctor and pro-democracy activist

Mohamed Nasheed

Speaker of the People's Majlis

Molly McKew

Lead writer at Great Power and CEO of Fianna Strategies