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

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

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

Andrew Feinstein

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