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