Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari is an Iranian poet, editor, human rights activist and midwife. She is part of the Iranian literary movement “Postmodern Ghazal”, seen as the most radical poetic movement in contemporary Iran, and has been chief editor of several literary...
Khaled Emam

Khaled Emam

Khaled Emam is an Egyptian human rights lawyer with deep expertise in global governance and international justice. He is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and the Founder and Executive Director of the Arab Leadership Institute, a platform dedicated to equipping...
Gvantsa Jobava

Gvantsa Jobava

Gvantsa Jobava is the President of the International Publishers Association and the Head of international Affairs at Intelekti Publishing, one of the biggest publishing houses in Georgia, previously – chairperson of the Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association...
Staffan I. Lindberg

Staffan I. Lindberg

Staffan I. Lindberg is Professor and Founding Director of the V-Dem Institute (2013-2025); PI of Varieties of Democracy; Founding Director of the national research infrastructure DEMSCORE; Wallenberg Academy Fellow alumni; co-author of Varieties of Democracy (CUP...
Ingunn Trosholmen

Ingunn Trosholmen

Ingunn Trosholmen is the CEO of World Expression Forum (WEXFO). She joined WEXFO from her position as State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister of Norway. Trosholmen previously served as Mayor of Lillehammer (2019–2023) and has held roles including...
Svitlana Mykhajlyshyn

Svitlana Mykhajlyshyn

Lawyer, feminist and human rights defender from Ukraine. A specialist at the Center“JurFem: Education”. Works in the field of protection of women’s rights, combating discrimination and gender-based violence. Graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The...