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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

Mona Eltahawy

Egyptian-American journalist

Mu Sochua

Cambodian human rights activist and exiled opposition politician

Mukhtar Mai

Pakistani women’s rights advocate and author

Mustafa Akyol

Turkish journalist and senior fellow at the Cato Institute

Mustafa Barghouti

Head of the Palestinian National Initiative

Mutabar Tadjibaeva

Uzbekistani human rights activist and former political prisoner

Mzwandile Masuku

Swazi human rights lawyer

Nabeel Rajab

Bahraini activist and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Naomi Natale

Installation artist, photographer, and social activist

Nasako Besingi

Cameroonian environmental activist and civil society leader

Natalia Kaliada

Belarusian theater director and political activist

Nathan Law

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists

Nazanin Boniadi

Iranian actress and human rights activist

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal

Thai education reform activist and author

Nick Cohen

British journalist and author

Nico Sell

American entrepreneur and privacy advocate

Nicolás Pérez

Ecuadorean journalist and media executive

Nurul Izzah Anwar

Malaysian politician and daughter of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

Nury Turkel

Uyghur activist and attorney

Nyrola Elimä

Uyghur journalist

Oleksandra Matviichuk

Head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine

Olga González

Venezuelan human rights activist

Omar Alshogre

Director of Detainee Affairs at the Syrian Emergency Task Force

Omar Mohammed

Iraqi historian, citizen journalist, and founder of Mosul Eye

Omar Sharif Jr.

Egyptian actor, model, and LGBTQ+ rights activist

Owen Maseko

Zimbabwean visual artist

Palden Gyatso

Tibetan monk and former prisoner of conscience

Parit Wacharasindhu

Thai Opposition Politician

Park Sang Hak

North Korean defector and democracy activist

Pastor Seungeun Kim

Korean human rights activist and leader of a modern-day underground railroad

Paul Rusesabagina

Humanitarian and real-life hero of “Hotel Rwanda”

Pavel Durov

CEO and founder of Telegram