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Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers

Featured Speakers

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russian democracy activist

DJ Switch

Nigerian artist and #EndSARS movement activist

Félix Maradiaga

Nicaraguan pro-democracy advocate and former prisoner of conscience

Chemi Lhamo

Tibetan activist and community organizer

All Speakers

Aayat Alqormozi

Bahraini poet

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

Agnes Callamard

Secretary General of Amnesty International

Ahmed Al Omran

Saudi blogger and activist

Ahmed Albasheer

Iraqi political satirist and comedian

Ahmed Benchemsi

Moroccan journalist

Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury

Publisher, writer, and editor from Bangladesh

Ai WeiWei

Chinese artist and activist

Akida Pulat

Uyghur activist

Alaa Murabit

Libyan activist and founder of The Voice of Libyan Women

Alejandro Toledo

Former president of Peru

Alexey Navalny

Leader of the Russian democratic opposition

Ali Abdulemam

Bahraini blogger and former prisoner of conscience

Ali Ferzat

Syrian political cartoonist

Alsarah & The Nubatones

Sudanese band

Alyaksandr Kazulin

Opposition activist and former rector of the Belarusian State University

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

Andrés Velasco

Chilean economist and professor

Andrew Feinstein

Former Member of the National Assembly of South Africa

Anjan Sundaram

Award-winning journalist

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

Bektour Iskender

Kyrgyz journalist and free speech activist

Carine Kanimba

Daughter of formerly detained “Hotel Rwanda” hero, Paul Rusesabagina

Carolina Barrero

Cuban art historian and human rights activist

Chung Ching Kwong 

Hong KHong Kongong political and digital rights activist

Dmytro Kuleba

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Evgenia Kara-Murza

Project manager at the Free Russia Foundation

Fatma Karume

Tanzanian lawyer and human rights advocate

Filmon Debru

Eritrean human trafficking survivor

Jewher Ilham

Uyghur advocate and daughter of imprisoned scholar Ilham Tohti

JP Jofre

Argentinian bandoneon player and composer

Kevork Mourad

Syrian-Armenian multimedia artist

Lucy Kassa

Ethiopian investigative journalist

Lynn Adib

Syrian musician

Manasseh Mathiang

South Sudanese musician

Michela Wrong

Author and journalist

Oleksandra Matviichuk

Head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine

Omar Alshogre

Director of Detainee Affairs at the Syrian Emergency Task Force

Rico Loop

German composer

Roman Dobrokhotov

Russian investigative journalist

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of the Belarusian democratic movement

Tatsiana Khomich

Belarusian activist and sister of political prisoner Maria Kalesnikava

Tawakkol Karman

Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Toufah Jallow

Gambian anti-rape activist and founder of the Toufah Foundation

Veronica Tsepkalo

Chair of Belarus Women's Foundation

Walid Ben Selim

Moroccan musician and producer

Zarifa Ghafari

Exiled afghan activist and politician

Asma Khalifa

Libyan human rights activist

​Belquis Al Lahabi 

Yemeni pro-democracy and women's rights activist

Clare Rewcastle Brown

Sarawak-born investigative journalist and founder of the Sarawak Report, a Malaysia-focused online publication

Edipcia Dubón

Nicaraguan pro-democracy and women's rights advocate

Fang Zheng

Tiananmen Square survivor, former athlete, and president of the Chinese Democracy Education Foundation

Farida Nabourema

Togolese writer and blogger

Fatemah Qaderyan

Former captain of Afghanistan’s first all-female high school robotics team

Fred Bauma

Congolese pro-democracy leader and founder of youth group LUCHA

Fred Warmbier 

Father of Otto Warmbier

Jason Silva

Futurist and Emmy-nominated host of Nat Geo’s hit television series "Brain Games"

Jose Luis Martin “Chito” Gascon

Filipino Community Organizer, Lawyer, and Activist

Lebo Mashile

South African poet and activist

Leyla Yunus

Azerbaijani human rights advocate

Mai Khoi

Vietnamese pop star and political activist

Manal al-Sharif

Saudi activist and Women2Drive organizer

Maziar Bahari 

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

Mu Sochua

Cambodian human rights activist and exiled opposition politician

Nasako Besingi

Cameroonian environmental activist and civil society leader

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal

Thai education reform activist and author

Omar Mohammed

Iraqi historian, citizen journalist, and founder of Mosul Eye

Rick Doblin

Founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and Researcher focused on PTSD

Svitlana Zalishcuk 

Ukrainian politician and human rights activist

Ti-Anna Wang

Chinese human rights advocate and lawyer

Tiff Stevenson

British stand-up comedian

Vanessa Tsehaye

Eritrean human rights activist

Wael Ghonim

Egyptian cyberactivist and leader of the 2011 Revolution

Yeonmi Park

Human rights activist and North Korean defector

Zineb El Rhazoui

Moroccan-French journalist

Bassem Youssef 

Egyptian satirist, columnist, and talk show host

CJ Adams

Senior product manager at Google and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Emily Parker

American writer, digital diplomacy advisor, and senior fellow at the New America Foundation

Erdem Gunduz

Turkish performance artist and dancer

Fatou Jaw Manneh

Gambian journalist

Flemming Rose

Danish author and journalist

Frederica Jansz

Sri Lankan journalist

Hyeonseo Lee

North Korean defector and author

Iyad el-Baghdadi

Palestinian writer, satirist, and activist

Jamila Raqib

Executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution

Janet Hinostroza

Ecuadorian journalist, news anchor, and host

Jeffrey Wright

Critically acclaimed American actor and founder of Taia Lion Resources

Jon Callas

American cryptographer, inventor, and co-founder of Silent Circle, an encrypted communications firm

Lissie

American folk rock artist

Mac-Jordan Degadjor

Ghanaian tech blogger and media entrepreneur

Marcela Turati Munoz 

Mexican investigative journalist and author

Michael Anti

Chinese journalist and political blogger

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman and opposition activist

Nico Sell

American entrepreneur and privacy advocate

Park Sang Hak

North Korean defector and democracy activist

Shahin Najafi

Iranian musician and activist

Shorna Shahida Akter

Child Marriage Abolitionist

Steven Pinker

Leading authority on language and the mind and author

Suleiman Bakhit

Jordanian social entrepreneur, comicbook author, and activist

Tanele Maseko

Tanele Maseko, Swazi human rights activist and CEO of the Thulani Maseko Foundation

The Honey Trees

American duo

Wonho Chung

South Korean-Vietnamese comedian and television personality

Yoani Sánchez

Cuban jornalist, author and human rights activist

Aron Kader

Palestinian-American comedian

Arzina Begum

Child marriage abolitionist

Asmaa al-Ghoul

Lebanese investigative journalist and news host

Bill Browder

Financier and political activist

Chen Guangcheng 

Chinese civil rights activist and former political prisoner

Donald Boudreaux

American economist and former president of the Foundation for Economic Education

Erin McCarley

American singer-songwriter

Haddy N’jie

Norwegian musician, writer, journalist

Hannah Song

North Korean human rights activist

James Kirchick

American journalist and foreign correspondent

Jenan Moussa 

Lebanese investigative journalist and news host

Julio Borges

Venezuelan lawyer and politician

Justin Kosslyn

Director of product management at Google

K.S. Rhoads

American musician and composer

Kevin Calaba

American musician and composer

Lapiro de Mbanga

Cameroonian musician, pro-democracy activist, and former political prisoner

Lee Ann De Reus

Co-founder of the Panzi Foundation

Lobsang Sangay

Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration’s government-in-exile

Luke Harding

British author and journalist

Mads Brügger

Danish journalist and filmmaker

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author, journalist, and former politician

Maryam Nayeb Yazdi

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

Meron Estefanos

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

Natalia Kaliada

Belarusian theater director and political activist

Owen Maseko

Zimbabwean visual artist

Peter Godwin 

Zimbabwean journalist, filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer

Rafael Marques de Morais

Angolan journalist and civil rights activist

Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez

Cuban journalist

Sasa Vucinic

Serbian journalist

Shakeela Ebrahimkhil

Afghan journalist

Soraya Bahgat

Egyptian-Finnish actvist and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard

Stephanie Sinclair

"American photojournalist who documents child marriage around the globe "

Barbara Demick

American journalist

Belisario Betancur

Former Colombian president

Benjamin Skinner

Abolitionist and award-winning author and journalist

Busi Kheswa

South African LGBTQ+ rights activist

Fernão Lara Mesquita

Brazilian journalist

George Ayittey

Ghanaian political economist

Ghazi Gheblawi

Libyan author and blogger

Gregory Shvedov

Russian investigative journalist

Guadalupe Llori

Ecuadorean politician

Izzeldin Abuelaish

Palestinian doctor and writer

Jacob Mchangama

Danish human rights lawyer and free speech advocate

James Fallon

American neuroscientist

James O’Neill

American science and technology investor

Jan Egeland

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council

Jody Williams

American Nobel Laureate

John Ralston Saul

Canadian author and former president of PEN International

Justine Hardy

British journalist and author

Leymah Gbowee

Liberian peace activist

Lina Ben Mhenni

Tunisian blogger and activist

Malahat Nasibova

Human rights activist

Maryam Al-Khawaja

Bahraini activist and founder of Al-Khawaja Consulting

Mona Eltahawy

Egyptian-American journalist

Philippe Douste-Blazy

French physician and politician

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian judge and Nobel Laureate

Steven Levitsky

Comparative political scientist

Thomas Glave

Jamaican-American author and LGBT rights activist

Uki Goñi

Argentinian author and journalist

Victoria Villarruel

Argentinian lawyer and politician

Vincent Manoharan

Founder of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)

Violet Banda

Malawian reporter

Wan Yanhai

Chinese HIV/AIDS activist

Zhanna Litvina

Belarusian radio journalist

Zoya Phan

Burmese human rights activist and author