Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers

2024 Speakers

Agather Atuhaire

Ugandan journalist and digital activist

Ahmed Alkhatib

Gazan writer and analyst

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”

Faisal Al Mutar

Founder and president, Ideas Beyond Borders

Georges Azzi

Gender and sexual rights activist

Jack Dorsey

CEO at Block; co-founder, Twitter

Lyn Alden

Macroeconomist; author of “Broken Money”

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

Daughter of the tortured Azerbaijani political prisoner Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu

Past Speakers

Anna Kwok

Executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council

Anne Applebaum

American-Polish journalist and historian

Antonietta Ledezma

Venezuelan human rights activist and daughter of former Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma

Antonio Ledezma

Venezuelan human rights activist and daughter of Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma

Anwar Ibrahim

Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister

Areej al Sadhan

Activist and sister of jailed Saudi dissident and humanitarian worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan

Aric Toler

Former Bellingcat researcher, now an investigative journalist for The New York Times

Ariel Ruiz Urquiola

Cuban environmentalist, biologist, and LGBTQ+ rights activist

Armin Reinartz

German scholar and diplomat

Arthur Breitman

Creator of Tezos

Arthur Holland Michel

Journalist and researcher

Arzina Begum

Child marriage abolitionist

Asma Jahangir

Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist

Asma Khalifa

Libyan human rights activist

Asmaa al-Ghoul

Lebanese investigative journalist and news host

Audrey Mbugua

Kenyan activist and head of Transgender Education and Advocacy