WEXFO 2024

Speakers

Veslemøy Østrem

Editor-in-Chief for Altinget Norway. Former Managing News Editor in the...

Yama Wolasmal

Yama Wolasmal is the Middle East correspondent for Norwegian state...

Irene Khan

Irene Khan is the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion...

Adele Matheson Mestad

Adele Matheson Mestad is a Norwegian lawyer. She is the...

Felicia Anthonio

Felicia Anthonio is #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now, a...

Christo Grozev

Christo Grozev is Executive Director and Chairman of the Bellingcat...

Anine Kierulf

Anine Kierulf is an associate professor of constitutional law at...

Arne Jensen

Arne Jensen is a senior advisor at the Association of...

Staffan Lindberg

Professor and Director of the V-Dem Institute at University of...

Arizza Nocum

Arizza is the Co-Founder and President of KRIS, a non-profit...

Lubna Jaffery

Lubna Jaffery is the Norwegian Minister of Culture and Equality...

Svenja Hahn

Svenja Hahn was born in Hamburg in 1989 and serves...

Peter Ter Velde

As a televison reporter Peter ter Velde reported from many...

Vladyslav Troitskyi

Vladyslav Troitskyi (1964) is Ukrainian theatre producer, director, playwriter and...

Taghi Rahmani

Taghi Rahmani, a veteran independent journalist and staunch free speech...

Mihael Kovač

Miha Kovač is a professor at the Department of Library...

Anders Lindberg

Political editor-in-chief at Aftonbladet since 2018. Started at Aftonbladet in...

Noam Shouster Eliassi

Noam is a comedian and activist, she worked her whole...

Peter Schoppert

Peter Schoppert is a publisher and reformed technology entrepreneur who...

Gérard Biard

Gérard Biard has been writing for Charlie Hebdo since 1992....

Mads Nygaard

Publisher and president of Aschehoug. Twenty years of experience in...

Hans Olav Sundfør

Hans Olav Sundfør (H) is the mayor of Lillehammer Municipality...

Tora Åsling

Tora Åsling, is since 2022 Policy Officer at the European...

Sam Gregory

Sam Gregory is an internationally recognized human rights advocate and...

Porter Anderson

Porter Anderson ( @Porter_Anderson ) BA, MA, MFA, is Editor-in-Chief...

Mariann Schjeide

Library manager at Volda University College, Norway. Attending as member...

Meron Mendel

Meron Mendel was born near Tel Aviv in 1976 and...

Nataliia Romanyshyn

Nataliia Romanyshyn is a NLP specialist at Texty.org.ua. Her passion...

Naw Betty Han

Naw Betty Han is a reporter at Frontier and previously...

Kimberly Wehle

Kimberly Wehle (pronounced Whale-ee) is an expert in constitutional law...

Khaled Harara

I am Khaled Harara, Palestinian from Gaza, and now residing...

Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times-bestselling author known...

Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen has covered international politics for 25 years as...

Ghawgha

Ghawgha is a musician from Afghanistan, renowned for her heartfelt...

Hanna Komar

Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, translator, writer and researcher....

Karine Pansa

With nearly thirty years of experience in the publishing industry,...

Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen

Ella Marie is a Sámi artist and activist from the...

Even Aleksander Hagen

A community-engaged 35-year-old with one foot in Gudbrandsdalen and the...

Åsmund Reistad

Åsmund Reistad (b. 1969) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer...

Arvinn Gadgil

Arvinn Gadgil, Director, UNDP Global Policy Centre for Governance Arvinn...

Abeer Abu Ghaith

Abeer Abu Ghaith is not only a social tech entrepreneur...

Aaiún Nin

Aaiún Nin is a non-binary person, born in Angola, writing...

Knut Nesheim

Knut Kvifte Nesheim is a drummer and composer hailing from...

Sigrid Sollund

Journalist and host on Dagsnytt 18 and other shows at...

Espen Aas

Journalist and host on Dagsnytt 18 at NRK (Norwegian Boradcasting...

Zubair Junjunia

Zubair Junjunia is an award-winning social entrepreneur dedicated to ensuring...

Tetyana Teren

Tetyana Teren (1986) is a Ukrainian journalist, cultural manager, and...

Maria Rosario Soraide

Rosario Soraide manages the UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural...

Pål Nedregotten

Pål Nedregotten heads technology and product development at the Norwegian...

Olav Brostrup Müller

Olav is Head of Culture in Lillehammer and head of...

Laila Bokhari

Academic, politician and diplomat. Former State Secretary, Office of the...

Alicja Wiśniewska

Member of the Board in PROM, Student of Law at...

Kristenn Einarsson

Consultant, managing director of World Expression Forum AS, chair of...

Zahra Hussaini

Human rights and cultural activist Zahra Hussaini is an Afghani...

Jørgen Lorentzen

Producer at Integral Film. Former journalist and professor in gender...

Kristoffer Rønneberg

Kristoffer Rønneberg is foreign news reporter at the Norwegian newspaper...

Khaled Emam

Khaled Emam is a Human Rights lawyer and an international...

Ahmed Samih Farag

Ahmed Samih Farag is a human rights activist, journalist, and...

Elisabetta Cassina Wolff

Elisabetta Cassina Wolff is historian and Associate Professor at the...

Kjartan Sverdrup

Government Relations & Public Policy Manager TikTok Norway & Sweden