List of Oslo Freedom Forum participants

The following is a list of persons who have attended the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) conferences since its start in 2009. The list is categorized first by country of origin, then by profession and year.


Afghanistan
  • Sima Samar (Chairperson of the AIHRC) (2010)
  • H.E. Manizha Bakhtari (Afghan Ambassador to Norway) (2010)
  • Roya Mahboob (Afghan tech entrepreneur and founder of Citadel Software) (2016)

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Belarus

Belgium

Brazil

Britain

Bolivia
  • Victor Hugo Cardenas (former vice-president of Bolivia) (2009)

Burma

Burundi

Cambodia
  • Sophal Ear (scholar of the Cambodian genocide) (2010)
  • Somaly Mam (Cambodian author and human rights activist) (2012)
  • Mu Sochua (Cambodian politician and rights activist) (2018)

Canada
  • Irwin Cotler (former Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General) (2012)
  • Maziar Bahari (Iranian Canadian journalist and human rights activist) (2018)
  • Emmanuel Jal (Sudanese Canadian performer, writer and political activist) (2018)

Chad

Chechnya

Chile
  • Andés Velasco (Chilean economist and former finance minister) (2015)

China
  • Jung Chang (author, Wild Swans) (2009)
  • Rebiya Kadeer (President, World Uyghur Congress) (2010)
  • Yang Jianli (Chinese dissident) (2011)
  • Harry Wu (Chinese dissident) (2009)
  • Wan Yanhai (Chinese HIV/AIDS activist) (2011)
  • Hui Siu Fun (producer, Hong Kong's Pearl and Jade TV) (2011)
  • Grace Gao (daughter of Gao Zhisheng, dissident Chinese human rights lawyer) (2017)
  • Fang Zheng (Chinese dissident) (2018)

Colombia
  • Victor Diusaba (online director, Colombia's El Semana) (2011)
  • Belisario Betancur (former president of Colombia) (2011)
  • Clara Rojas (Colombian politician, formerly kidnapped by the FARC) (2010)

Cuba

Czech Republic

Denmark
  • Jacob Mchangama (Danish scholar) (2011)
  • Torstein Nybo (co-producer, Burma VJ) (2010)

Ecuador
  • Guadalupe Llori (Ecuadorian politician) (2010)
  • Xavier Bonilla (Ecuadorean political cartoonist for leading newspaper El Universo) (2017)

Egypt
  • Mona Eltahawy (award-winning Egyptian journalist) (2010)
  • Wael Ghonim (Egyptian internet activist) (2011)
  • Bassem Youssef (Egyptian satirist and television host) (2014)[1]
  • Soraya Bahgat (Egyptian-Finnish women's rights advocate and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard) (2013)[2]
  • Omar Sharif Jr. (grandson of film star Omar Sharif, actor, model, and LGBT rights activist) (2016)
  • Wael Ghonim (Egyptian internet activist and entrepreneur) (2018)

Estonia
  • Mart Laar (former Prime Minister, Estonia) (2010)

Finland
  • Soraya Bahgat (Egyptian-Finnish women's rights advocate and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard) (2013)[2]

France

Gabon
  • Marc Ona Essangui (president and founder of two organizations in Gabon) (2015)

Germany

Ghana

India

Iran
  • Kambiz Hosseini (Iranian satirist, actor, and television and radio host) (2015)
  • Maryam Faghihmani(Iranian human rights scholar and activist) (2015)
  • Marina Nemat (former political prisoner, Iran) (2010, 2011)
  • Shirin Ebadi (Iranian Nobel Laureate) (2011)

Iraq

Israel
  • Dana Weiss (anchor, Israel's Channel 2 News) (2011)

Jamaica

Latvia

Liberia

Libya

Malawi

Memory Banda (Malawian girls’ rights activist) (2017)

Malaysia

Maldives
  • Mohamed Nasheed (human rights and environmental activist - the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, serving from 2008 to 2012) (2017)

Mauritania
  • Abdel Nasser Ould Yessa (founder, Mauritania's SOS Slaves) (2011)

Mexico

Morocco

Nigeria

North Korea
  • Kang Chol-hwan (author, Aquariums of Pyongyang) (2010)
  • Park Sang Hak (North Korean democracy activist) (2009)
  • Ji Seong-Ho (North Korean refugee and president of a North Korean NGO) (2015) [3]
  • Grace Jo (North Korean defector, activist, and the vice president of North Korean Refugees in the USA (NKinUSA) (2017)
  • Yeonmi Park (North Korean defector and expert on the country's black market economy) (2014)

Norway
  • Børge Brende (Foreign Minister of Norway and former managing director of the World Economic Forum) (2015)
  • Åsne Seierstad (author, The Bookseller of Kabul) (2010)
  • Knut Olav Amas (political editor, Norway's Aftenposten) (2011)
  • Hanne Skartveit (political editor, Norway's Verdens Gang) (2011)
  • Magne Ove Varsi (indigenous rights leader) (2009)
  • Peder Lunde (Norwegian Olympic medallist) (2009)
  • Kai Eide (U.N. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA) (2010)
  • Arne L. Lynngård (president of the Rafto Foundation) (2009)
  • Jan Egeland (director, Human Rights Watch Europe) (2011)
  • Jan Erik Helgesen (president, Venice Commission) (2010)
  • John Peder Egenaes (secretary general, Amnesty International Norway) (2009)
  • Therese Jebsen (executive director, Rafto Foundation) (2010)
  • Fabian Stang (mayor, City of Oslo) (2011)
  • Kjell Magne Bondevik (former Norwegian Prime Minister) (2009,10)
  • Kristin Clemet (former education minister) (2009,10)
  • Erna Solberg (current Norwegian Prime Minister of Norway) (2017)

Pakistan
  • Asma Jahangir (leading Pakistani lawyer) (2012)
  • Mukthar Mai (Pakistani women's rights advocate) (2010)
  • Maria Toorpakai Wazir (professional Pakistani squash player and women's rights activist) (2017)

Palestine

Peru

Poland
  • Lech Walesa (former Polish president; Nobel Laureate) (2010)

Republic of Azerbaijan

Republic of Malawi

Romania

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

Somalia
  • Lelya Hussein (psychotherapist, writer, specialist on female genital mutilation and gender rights) (2017)

South Africa

Spain
  • Maria Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo (foreign editor, Spain's El Pais) (2011)

Sudan

Swaziland

Sweden
  • Claes Arvidsson (foreign editor, Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet) (2011)
  • Birgitta Ohlsson (Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs) (2010,11)

Syria
  • Raed Fares (pro-democracy activist) (2017)
  • Abdulrahman Al-Mawwas (co-founder of the Syrian Civil Defense) (2017)

Thailand

Tibet

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Uruguay
  • Luis Almagro (lawyer, diplomat, and 10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States) (2017)

United Arab Emirates

United States
  • Larry Diamond (political science professor at Stanford University) (2015)
  • Kimberley Motley (American human rights advocate and litigator practicing in Afghanistan) (2015)
  • Barbara Demick (author, journalist, and North Korean expert) (2011)
  • Benjamin Skinner (author, A Crime So Monstrous) (2010)
  • Claudia Rosett (columnist, Forbes magazine) (2010)
  • David Andelman (editor, World Policy Journal) (2011)
  • Greg Mortenson (co-author, Three Cups of Tea) (2009)
  • Jackson Diehl (deputy editorial page editor, Washington Post) (2011)
  • James Traub (contributing writer, The NYT Magazine) (2010)
  • Jay Nordlinger (senior editor, National Review) (2011)
  • Jamie Kirchick (writer-at-large, Radio Free Europe) (2011)
  • John Fund (columnist, Wall Street Journal) (2011)
  • Michael C. Moynihan (senior editor, Reason magazine) (2010)
  • Paul Steiger (chairman, Committee to Protect Journalists) (2011)
  • Reihan Salam (columnist, Daily Beast) (2011)
  • L. Craig Johnstone (Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations) (2009,11)
  • Mona Eltahawy (Egyptian-American analyst) (2011)
  • James Fallon (neuroscientist) (2011)
  • Steven Levitsky (Harvard political scientist) (2011)
  • Jack Healey (former Executive Director, Amnesty International) (2009)
  • James O’Neill (Thiel Foundation, Clarium Capital) (2011)
  • Jared Genser (president, Freedom Now; legal counsel for Liu Xiaobo) (2010, 2012)
  • Kate Hughes (Women for Women International) (2010)
  • Mauro de Lorenzo (VP for Freedom and Free Enterprise, John Templeton Foundation) (2010)
  • Paula Schrifer (director of advocacy, Freedom House) (2010)
  • Zuhdi Jasser (President and Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy) (2010)
  • Jimmy Wales (founder, Wikipedia; via video) (2010,11)
  • Ebele Okobi-Harris (director of business and human rights, Yahoo) (2011)
  • Amber Lyon (CNN correspondent) (2011)
  • Jody Williams (Nobel laureate) (2011)
  • Colin Crowell (internet technology policy expert) (2015)
  • Liza Donnelly (writer/ cartoonist, The New Yorker, CBS News) (2016, 2017)
  • Joe Lonsdale (American tech entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist) (2017)
  • Carah Faye (American singer and songwriter) (2017)
  • Galia Benartzi (American tech entrepreneur) (2018)
  • Jason Silva (Venezuelan American television personality) (2018)
  • Rick Doblin (American psychedelic drug advocate) (2018)

Uzbekistan

Venezuela
  • Marcel Granier (Venezuelan journalist) (2010)
  • Diego Arria (former President of the U.N. Security Council) (2010)
  • Leopoldo Lopez (opposition leader, Venezuela) (2010)
  • Ramón José Velásquez (former Venezuelan president) (via video) (2009)
  • Rayma Suprani (Venezuelan political cartoonist) (2015)
  • Antonietta Ledezma (Venezuelan human rights activist) (2017)
  • Wuilly Arteaga (Venezuelan violinist and activist) (2017)
  • Antonio Ledezma (Venezuelan politician) (2018)

Vietnam
  • Thich Quang Do (Vietnamese religious leader) (via video) (2010)
  • Vo Van Ai (Vietnamese human rights activist) (2009)

Western Sahara

Yemen
  • Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani (Yemeni journalist) (2010)

Zimbabwe

References
  1. Oslo Freedom Forum. "Bassem Youssef". Oslo Freedom Forum.
  2. Oslo Freedom Forum. "Soraya Bahgat". Oslo Freedom Forum.
  3. "Event: 2015 Oslo Freedom Forum". Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers. Oslo Freedom Forum. 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5xeVZYI9hs "Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal | The Student vs. The Military | 2018
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRoHAc7huaA "‘ประเทศกูมี’ ในงาน Oslo Freedom Forum 2019 : Rap Against Dictatorship"
  6. Iyad el-Baghdadi: The Arab Spring Manifesto
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