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Final-Signatory List-Democracy Letter-23-06-2020.Xlsx Signatories by Surname Name Affiliation Country Davood Moradian General Director, Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies Afghanistan Rexhep Meidani Former President of Albania Albania Juela Hamati President, European Democracy Youth Network Albania Nassera Dutour President, Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) Algeria Fatiha Serour United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Somalia; Co-founder, Justice Impact Algeria Rafael Marques de MoraisFounder, Maka Angola Angola Laura Alonso Former Member of Chamber of Deputies; Former Executive Director, Poder Argentina Susana Malcorra Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina; Former Chef de Cabinet to the Argentina Patricia Bullrich Former Minister of Security of Argentina Argentina Mauricio Macri Former President of Argentina Argentina Beatriz Sarlo Journalist Argentina Gerardo Bongiovanni President, Fundacion Libertad Argentina Liliana De Riz Professor, Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo Argentina Flavia Freidenberg Professor, the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Argentina Santiago Cantón Secretary of Human Rights for the Province of Buenos Aires Argentina Haykuhi Harutyunyan Chairperson, Corruption Prevention Commission Armenia Gulnara Shahinian Founder and Chair, Democracy Today Armenia Tom Gerald Daly Director, Democratic Decay & Renewal (DEM-DEC) Australia Michael Danby Former Member of Parliament; Chair, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Australia Gareth Evans Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia and Leader of the Government in the Australia Kevin Rudd Former Prime Minister of Australia; Member, the Global Leadership Foundation Australia Cheryl Saunders Laureate Emeritus Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne; Former Australia Alfred Gusenbauer Former Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria Austria Anar Mammadli Chairman, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center; Former Political Azerbaijan Leyla Yunus Director, the Institute for Peace and Democracy Azerbaijan Khadija Ismayilova Former Political Prisoner and Investigative Journalist Azerbaijan Leila Alieva President, Center for National and International Studies Azerbaijan Muhammad Yunus Nobel Laureate for Literature; Founder, Grameen Bank Bangladesh Shahidul Alam Photojournalist and social activist Bangladesh Ales Bialiatski Founder, The Human Rights Center “Viasna” Belarus Lavon Volski Musician and Activist Belarus Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Laureate in Literature Belarus Sabine de Bethune Baroness and Member of the Senate of Belgium Belgium Cindy Franssen Member of the European Parliament Belgium Página 1 Signatories by Surname Guy Verhofstadt Member of the European Parliament and European Parliament Brexit Coordinator; Belgium Kris Peeters Member of the European Parliament; Former Minister-President of Flanders and Belgium Karl-Heinz Lambertz Speaker of the Parliament of the German-Speaking Community; Former President of Belgium Koert Debeuf Writer and Editor in Chief, EUobserver Belgium Theodore Hole Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin; Former President of the Constitutional Benin Carlos Mesa Former President of Bolivia Bolivia Jorge Quiroga Former President of Bolivia Bolivia Vildana Selimbegovic Editor-in-Chief, Oslobodjenje Bosnia & Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija Former Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina Darko Brkan President, CA Why Not Bosnia & Herzegovina Dumiso Gatsha Founder, Success Capital Organisation Botswana Bolivar Lamounier Director, Augurium Consultores and Advisor, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Brazil Celso Lafer Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; Former Ambassador and Permanent Brazil Fernando Henrique CardosoFormer President of Brazil Brazil Ivan Krastev Chairman, the Centre for Liberal Strategies; Founder, the European Council on Foreign Bulgaria Daniel Mitov Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Bulgaria Wai Wai Nu Executive Director, Women’s Peace Network; Rohingya Human Rights Activist Burma Ateki Seta Caxton Chair, African Movement for Democracy Cameroon Akere Muna Chair, International Anti-Corruption Conference Council Cameroon Chelsea Gabel Chair, Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation Research Canada Ronald Deibert Director, Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto Canada Nicole Goodman Director, the Centre for e-Democracy; Associate Professor, Brock University Canada Jean-Pierre Kingsley Former Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada Canada Louise Fréchette Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Member, the Global Canada Bob Rae Former Member of Parliament; Senior Fellow, Forum of Federations and Professor, Canada Thomas Mulcair Former Member of Parliament; Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Canada Hugh Segal Former Member of the Senate of Canada; Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Canada Lloyd Axworthy Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chair, World Refugee Council Canada Stephen Harper Former Prime Minister of Canada Canada Charles Joseph Clark Former Prime Minister of Canada; Member, the Global Leadership Foundation Canada Anita Vandenbeld Member of Parliament Canada Leonidas Montes Director, Centro de Estudios Públicos Chile Rafael Rincón Director, Fundación Para el Progreso Chile José Miguel Vivanco Human Rights Lawyer Chile Sascha Hannig Nunez Journalist; Author; Researcher, Fundacion Para el Progreso Chile Jose Miguel Insulza Member of the Senate of the Republic of Chile; Former Secretary-General, the Chile Gloria de la Fuente President, Fundacion Chile 21 Chile Página 2 Signatories by Surname Sergio Bitar President, the Chilean Council for Strategy and Foresight Chile Francisco Rojas-Aravena Rector, the University for Peace (UPEACE) Chile Xia Liu Artist and Widow of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo China Xiao Qiang Director, the Counter-Power Lab; Former Executive Director of Human Rights in China; China Han Dongfang Executive Director, China Labor Bulletin China Wang Dan Founder and Executive Director, Dialogue China China Yang Jianli Founder and President, Citizen Power Initiatives for China China Catalina Botero Dean, the Law School of the University of Los Andes, Bogotá; Former Special Colombia Cesar Gaviria Former President of Colombia Colombia Andres Pastrana Former President of Colombia Colombia Humberto de la Calle Former Vice President of Colombia Colombia Laura Gil Journalist and Director, Dialogos and Estrategias Colombia Juan Manuel Santos Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of Colombia Colombia Laura Chinchilla Former President of Costa Rica Costa Rica Miguel Ángel Rodriguez Former President of Costa Rica Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solís RiveraFormer President of Costa Rica Costa Rica Eduardo Ulibarri Journalist Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez Nobel Peace Laureate; Founder, Grameen Bank Costa Rica Josette Altmann Secretary-General, FLACSO Costa Rica Vesna Pusić Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia Croatia Ivo Josipovic Former President of Croatia Croatia Joel Brito Executive Director, the International Group for Corporate Social Responsibility in Cuba Cuba Rosa Maria Paya President, the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy Cuba Carlos Alberto Montaner Writer and Journalist Cuba Simon Panek Director, People in Need Czech Republic Martin Palous Director, Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy, Florida International Czech Republic Michael Zantovsky Executive Director, Vaclav Havel Library Czech Republic Ivan Pilip Former Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic; Former Vice President, the Czech Republic Jan Fischer Former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Zdeněk Hřib Mayor of Prague Czech Republic Alexander Vondra Member of the European Parliament; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Czech Republic Ivan Miloš Havel Researcher and Former Director of the Center for Theoretical Studies Czech Republic Antoni Abat Ninet Professor of Constitutional Law, the University of Copenhagen Denmark Leonel Fernández Former President of the Dominican Republic; President, the World Federation of Dominican Republic Rosario Espinal Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology, Temple University Dominican Republic Rosalía Arteaga Serrano Former President of Ecuador Ecuador Osvaldo Hurtado Former President of Ecuador Ecuador Página 3 Signatories by Surname Simón Pachano Professor, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Ecuador Nagwan Soliman Affiliate Scholar, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Egypt Bahey Hassan Director, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; Human rights advocate Egypt Nancy Okail Former Director, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Egypt Amr Hamzawy Former Member of the People’s Assembly of Egypt; Senior research scholar, the Egypt Aya Hijazi Founder, Belady foundation for Street Children Egypt Hisham Kassem Political Commentator and Former Chairman, the Egyptian Organization for Human Egypt Ezzedine Choukri Fishere Writer and Academic Egypt Ana Vilma Albanez de EscobarFormer Vice President of El Salvador El Salvador Joaquín Villalobos Scholar El Salvador Toomas Henrik Ilves Former President of Estonia Estonia Marina Kaljurand Member of the European Parliament; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Estonia Bilen Asrat Ejigu Executive Director, Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations Forum Ethiopia Heidi Hautala Vice President of the European Parliament; Former Minister of International Finland
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