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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.

2024 Speakers

Agather Atuhaire

Ugandan journalist and digital activist

Ahmed Alkhatib

Gazan writer and analyst

Ambassador Marie Antoinette Sedin

Palestinian ambassador to Norway and Iceland

Anastasia Shevchenko

Russian politician and opposition figure

Carlos Chamorro

Nicaraguan journalist in exile

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Researcher, founder of the Trauma Research Foundation, and New York Times best-selling author of “The Body Keeps the Score”

Espen Barth Eide

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Faisal Al Mutar

Founder and president, Ideas Beyond Borders

Georges Azzi

Gender and sexual rights activist

Gershon Baskin

Israeli columnist and political activist

Hilde Sandvik

Journalist, author, and creator of the award-winning podcast "Norsken, svensken og Dansken"

Jack Dorsey

CEO at Block; co-founder, Twitter

Lyn Alden

Macroeconomist; author of “Broken Money”

Mustafa Barghouti

Head of the Palestinian National Initiative

Olga González

Venezuelan human rights activist

Paul Rusesabagina

Humanitarian and real-life hero of “Hotel Rwanda”

Raqib Hameed Naik

Founder India Hate Lab & Hindutva Watch

Sam Rainsy

Co-founder of Cambodia's main opposition party

Sebastien Lai

Son of Jimmy Lai, founder of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper

Zhala Bayramova

Child Of Azerbaijani Political Prisoner On A Quest To Free Their Father

Past Speakers

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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