Ande Somby

Ande Somby

Sami joik artist and an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø, specializing in Indigenous Rights Law. One of the cofounders of the Sámi publishing house and record label Dat.
Helje Solberg

Helje Solberg

Head of News division at NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting. Chair of the board, Faktisk (Norwegian fact checking organization). Previous vice president of World Editors’ Forum.
Bodour Al Qasimi

Bodour Al Qasimi

President of the International Publishers Association (IPA). A trailblazer in the global publishing scene, Bodour Al Qasimi is creating a positive impact on the world by pushing IPA’s agenda on freedom to publish and intellectual property rights. In 2019, Bodour Al...
Juana Regina Pérez Tiño

Juana Regina Pérez Tiño

Regina Pérez is a professional journalist and social communicator. She has been working in journalism for 12 years, where she has worked both as reporter and editor. During her first years in journalism she worked at the CERIGUA news agency on issues such as freedom...
Kira Yarmysh

Kira Yarmysh

Kira Yarmysh (b. 1989) is educated at the prestigious MGIMO diplomatic school in Moscow. She worked in communications in the airline industry before becoming Aleksey Navalny’s press spokesperson in 2014. She has served several shorter prison sentences since 2018...