WEXFO 2023
Speakers
Jakob Mchangama
Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, human-rights advocate, and social...
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Oleksandra Vyacheslavivna Matviichuk is a Kyiv-based human rights lawyer and...
Burhan Sönmez
Burhan Sönmez is a Kurdish prize-winning novelist from Turkey living...
Rasha al Ameer
Rasha al Ameer is a Lebanese author and publisher. Since...
Anette Trettebergstuen
Minister of Culture and Equality, Norway
Knut Olav Åmås
Knut Olav Åmås (born 19 January 1968) is a Norwegian...
Bård Vegar Solhjell
Bård Vegar Solhjell (b. 1971) is the Director General of...
Ingunn Trosholmen
Ingunn Trosholmen (Labor Party) took over the mayoral position in...
Caroline E. Janney
Historian, author and speaker. Janney is Director of John L...
Koleka Putuma
Koleka Putuma is an award-winning theatre practitioner, writer and poet....
Thinzar Shunlei Yi
Thinzar Shunlei Yi is a youth advocate and activist based...
Joanna Krawczyk
Joanna Krawczyk, Deputy Director East at the German Marshall Fund...
Lana Estemirova
Daughter of a human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, a former...
Fatemeh Ekhtesari
Fatemeh Ekhtesari is the current City of Refuge writer in...
Gvantsa Jobava
Gvantsa Jobava, is the vice president of international Publishers Association...
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra has a MA in English Literature at the...
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi is an author, lawyer, and was the first...
Sasha Havlicek
Sasha is the Founding CEO of the Institute for Strategic...
Masud Gharahkhani
Masud is a Norwegian politician who has served as the...
Mohammad Usman Rana
Mohammad Usman Rana is the head of the Norwegian Muslim...
Lola Shoneyin
Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet and author who launched...
Ingeborg Volan
Ingeborg Volan is managing director of The Norwegian Book Clubs....
Johan H. Andresen
Owner and Chair of Ferd, Norway, and Chair Council of...
Forouzan Jamshidnejad
Forouzan Jamshidnejad is a Norwegian-Iranian actor. She plays in Ali...
Karam Nachar
Karam S. Nachar is a Syrian writer and academic. He...
Arne Jensen
Arne Jensen is a senior advisor at the Association of...
Vladislav Kaim
Vladislav Kaim is a published young Moldovan economist, analyst, and...
Frode Haltli
Frode Haltli began playing the accordion at the age of...
Henry Elkus
Henry Elkus is Founder and CEO of Helena. He cares...
Aarti Narsee
Aarti Narsee is an civic space and gender rights expert....
Erlend Apneseth
Erlend Apneseth is a folk musician from Norway, who is...
Marlon Julian Nombrado
Marlon Julian Nombrado is one of the co-founders of Out...
Aya Amead
Aya Amead is a veteran media professional, who started her...
Charlotte Harder
Charlotte Harder is Head of Communications and Press, Danish Union...
Søren Liborius
Mr. Søren Liborius is Chief Advisor from the Danish Foreign...
Nazifa Jalali
Nazifa Jalali is from Zabul, Afghanistan, living in Harstad, Norway....
Özgür Gür
Özgür Gür has dedicated himself to defending lesbian, gay, bi-sexual,...
Marianne Neraal
Marianne Neraal is heading public policy for Meta in Norway,...
Ine Eriksen Søreide
Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide is Chair of The Standing Committee...
Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi
Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi , Founder of Pakistan Youth Alliance,...
Najwa Wheba
Najwa Wheba is the first Presidential Spokeswoman in Libya, appointed...
Kristian Kampmann
Kristian is a Co-owner and Partner at Dalberg Media, a...
Natalia Pinchuk
Natallia Pinchuk is a professor of history. She graduated from...
Khaled Emam
Mr. Khaled Emam is a renowned young international human rights...
Svitlana Mykhajlyshyn
Lawyer, feminist and human rights defender from Ukraine. A specialist...