Signatory Organization Country Other Affiliation General Director, Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies Davood Moradian Afghanistan President, European Democracy Youth Network Juela Hamati Albania Former President of Albania Rexhep Meidani Albania United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Somalia Fatiha Serour Algeria Co-founder, Justice Impact Lab; Member, the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability President, Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) Nassera Dutour Algeria
Founder, Maka Angola Rafael Marques de Morais Angola Professor, the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous UniversityFlavia of Mexico Freidenberg (UNAM) Argentina Secretary of Human Rights for the Province of Buenos Aires Santiago Cantón Argentina Former Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) Journalist Beatriz Sarlo Argentina Former President of Argentina Mauricio Macri Argentina Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina Susana Malcorra Argentina Former Chef de Cabinet to the Executive Office at the United Nations Former Minister of Security of Argentina Patricia Bullrich Argentina Former Minister of Labour, Employment and Human Resources of Argentina President, Fundacion Libertad Gerardo Bongiovanni Argentina Former Member of Chamber of Deputies Laura Alonso Argentina Former Executive Director, Poder Ciudadano; Former Head of Argentine Anti- Corruption Office Professor, Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo Liliana De Riz Argentina Founder and Chair, Democracy Today Gulnara Shahinian Armenia Chairperson, Corruption Prevention Commission Haykuhi Harutyunyan Armenia Laureate Emeritus Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Cheryl Saunders Australia Former Vice Chair of International IDEA Board of Advisors Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia and Leader of the Government in Gareththe Senate Evans Australia President Emeritus, the International Crisis Group; Former Dean of Australian National University Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd Australia Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Former Member of Parliament Michael Danby Australia Chair, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Director, Democratic Decay & Renewal (DEM-DEC) Tom Gerald Daly Australia
Former Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer Austria Chairman, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center Anar Mammadli Azerbaijan Former Political Prisoner and Recipient of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize of the Parliamentary Center of the Council of Europe Former Political Prisoner and Investigative Journalist Khadija Ismayilova Azerbaijan
President, Center for National and International Studies Leila Alieva Azerbaijan Director, the Institute for Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus Azerbaijan Nobel Peace Laureate; Founder, Grameen Bank Muhammed Yunnus Bangladesh Photojournalist and social activist Shahidul Alam Bangladesh Founder, The Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski Belarus Musician and Activist Lavon Volski Belarus Nobel Laureate in Literature Svetlana Alexievich Belarus Member of the European Parliament Cindy Franssen Belgium Member of the European Parliament and European Parliament Brexit Coordinator;Guy Former Verhofstadt Prime Minister of Belgium Belgium Former Prime Minister of Belgium Speaker of the Parliament of the German-Speaking Community Karl-Heinz Lambertz Belgium Former President of the European Committee of the Regions; Former Minister- President of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium Writer and Editor in Chief, EUobserver Koert Debeuf Belgium Member of the European Parliament Kris Peeters Belgium Former Minister-President of Flanders and Former Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium
Member of the Senate of Belgium Sabine de Bethune Belgium Former Speaker of the Belgian Senate Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin Theodore Hole Benin Former President of the Constitutional Court Former President of Bolivia Jorge Quiroga Bolivia Former President of Bolivia Carlos Mesa Bolivia Former Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija Bosnia & Herzegovina President, CA Why Not Darko Brkan Bosnia & Herzegovina Editor-in-Chief, Oslobodjenje Vildana Selimbegovic Bosnia & Herzegovina Founder, Success Capital Organisation Dumiso Gatsha Botswana Director, Augurium Consultores and Advisor, the World Leadership Alliance-Club Bolivarde Madrid Lamounier Brazil Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Celso Lafer Brazil Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso Brazil Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Daniel Mitov Bulgaria Chairman, the Centre for Liberal Strategies Ivan Krastev Bulgaria Founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations Executive Director, Women’s Peace Network; Rohingya Human Rights Activist Wai Wai Nu Burma Chair, International Anti-Corruption Conference Council Akere Muna Cameroon Chair, African Movement for Democracy Ateki Seta Caxton Cameroon Former Member of Parliament Bob Rae Canada Senior Fellow, Forum of Federations and Professor, University of Toronto Former Prime Minister of Canada Charles Joseph Clark Canada Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Chair, Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation Research ChelseaCanada Gabel Canada Former Member of the Senate of Canada; Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global AffairsHugh Segal Canada Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto Former Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada Jean-Pierre Kingsley Canada Former Deputy Minister of National Defence; Former Deputy Secretary-General ofLouise the United Fréchette Nations Canada Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Director, the Centre for e-Democracy Nicole Goodman Canada Associate Professor, Brock University Director, Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto Ronald Deibert Canada Former Member of Parliament Thomas Mulcair Canada Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper Canada Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chair, World Refugee Council Lloyd Axworthy Canada Member of Parliament Anita Vandenbeld Canada Rector, the University for Peace (UPEACE) Francisco Rojas-Aravena Chile President, Fundacion Chile 21 Gloria de la Fuente Chile Member of the Senate of the Republic of Chile Jose Miguel Insulza Chile Former Secretary-General, the Organization of American States Director, Human Rights Watch Americas Division José Miguel Vivanco Chile Founder, the Center for Justice and International Law Director, Centro de Estudios Públicos Leonidas Montes Chile Secretary-General, Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y África; Researcher,Sascha Hannig Fundacion Nunez para El Progresso Chile President, the Chilean Council for Strategy and Foresight Sergio Bitar Chile Director, Fundación Para el Progreso Rafael Rincón Chile Executive Director, China Labor Bulletin Han Dongfang China Artist and Widow of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Liu Xia China Founder and Executive Director, Dialogue China Wang Dan China Director, the Counter-Power Lab Xiao Qiang China Former Executive Director of Human Rights in China and Former Vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy Founder and President, Citizen Power Initiatives for China Yang Jianli China Dean, the Law School of the University of Los Andes, Bogotá Catalina Botero Colombia Former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) Former President of Colombia Cesar Gaviria Colombia Former Vice President of Colombia Humberto de la Calle Colombia Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos Colombia Former President of Colombia Andres Pastrana Colombia Journalist and Director, Dialogos and Estrategias Laura Gil Colombia Journalist Eduardo Ulibarri Costa Rica Secretary-General, FLACSO Josette Altmann Costa Rica Former President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla Costa Rica Former President of Costa Rica Miguel Angel Rodriguez Costa Rica Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez Costa Rica Former President of Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solis Costa Rica Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia Vesna Pusić Croatia Former President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic Croatia Writer and Journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner Cuba Executive Director, the International Group for Corporate Social Responsibility in JoelCuba Brito Cuba President, the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy Rosa Maria Paya Cuba Researcher and Former Director of the Center for Theoretical Studies Ivan M. Havel Czech Republic Former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Jan Fischer Czech Republic Director, Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy, Florida InternationalMartin University Palous Czech Republic Member of the European Parliament Alexander Vondra Czech Republic Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Former Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic Ivan Pilip Czech Republic Former Vice President, the European Investment Bank Executive Director, Vaclav Havel Library Michael Zantovsky Czech Republic Director, People in Need Simon Panek Czech Republic Professor of Constitutional Law, the University of Copenhagen Antoni Abat Ninet Denmark Former President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández Dominican Republic President, the World Federation of United Nations Associations Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology, Temple University Rosario Espinal Dominican Republic Academic, Sociologist and Political Analyst Professor, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Simón Pachano Ecuador Political Scientist and Academic Former President of Ecuador Osvaldo Hurtado Ecuador Former President of Ecuador Rosalía Arteaga Serrano Ecuador Former Member of the People’s Assembly of Egypt Amr Hamzawy Egypt Senior research scholar, the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Founder, Belady foundation for Street Children Aya Hijazi Egypt Director, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; Human rights advocate Bahey Eddin Hassan Egypt Writer and Academic Ezzedine Choukri Fishere Egypt Political Commentator and Former Chairman, the Egyptian Organization for HumanHisham Rights Kassem Egypt Affiliate Scholar, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Nagwan Soliman Egypt Former Director, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Nancy Okail Egypt Scholar Joaquín Villalobos El Salvador Former Vice President of El Salvador Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar El Salvador Former President of Estonia Toomas Henrik Ilves Estonia Diplomat and Journalist Member of the European Parliament Marina Kaljurand Estonia Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Executive Director, Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations Forum Bilen Asrat Ejigu Ethiopia Vice President of the European Parliament Heidi Hautala Finland Former Minister for International Development of Finland Professor, Center for International Studies at SciencesPo in Paris Jacques Rupnik France Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guéhenno France Member, Jcall Advocacy Group Bernard Henri Lévy France Prominent intellectual President, France-Amerique Guy Sorman France Former President, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques Jean-Claude Casanova France Deputy Director General, Rapporteurs Sans Frontier (RSF) Antoine Bernard France Former Speaker of Parliament of Georgia Davit Usupashvili Georgia Former President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili Georgia Executive Director, Transparency International Georgia Eka Gigauri Georgia Chairman, Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development Ghia Nodia Georgia Executive Director, Atlantic Council, Georgia Giorgi Muchaidze Georgia Executive Director, Center for Development and Democracy Ketevan Chachava Georgia Chairwoman, Georgian Farmers Association Nino Zambakhidze Georgia Chairperson, Civic IDEA, former Minister of Defense Tinatin Khidasheli Georgia Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center Nino Evgenidze Georgia Director, Democracy Research Institute (DRI) Ucha Nanuashvili Georgia Professor of Political Science, Freie University, Berlin Tanja A. Börzel Germany Former Deputy Mayor and Senator for Urban Development and Environmental ProtectionRalf Fücks Germany Founder, Zentrum Liberale Moderne Former Member of the European Parliament; Former Chairman, the European ParliamentElmar Brok Foreign Affairs Committee Germany Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of the Bundestag Markus Meckel Germany Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders Andreas Bummel Germany Director, South Caucasus Office, Heinrich Boell Foundation Stefan Meister Germany Executive Director, AfroBarometer E. Gyimah Boadi Ghana Founder and Executive Director, Gender Centre for Empowering Development (GenCED)Esther Tawiah Ghana Former Vice President of Guatemala and Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Stein Guatemala Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Guatemala Former Judge, Legal Specialist on Anti-corruption Policies Claudia Escobar Mejia Guatemala Former Rector of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras Julieta Castellanos Honduras Founder, Demosisto Joshua Wong Hong-Kong Founder, Democratic Party Martin Lee Hong-Kong Former Member of the Legislative Council; Secretary-General, Hong Kong ConfederationLee Cheuk of YanTrade Unions Hong-Kong Deputy Mayor of Budapest Kata Tüttő Hungary Member of the European Parliament Katka Cseh Hungary Co-founder, Momentum Movement Former Minister of Education of Hungary Bálint Magyar Hungary Former Member of Parliament Kész Zoltán Hungary Honorary President, Free Market Foundation of Hungary Vice President of the European Parliament Klara Dobrev Hungary Former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; Resident Fellow, Center Miklosfor Media, Haraszti Central European University Hungary Director, Political Capital Institute, Europe’s Futures Fellow, IWM/ERSTE Stiftung Peter Kreko Hungary Director, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir Iceland Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland Former Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari India Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Former Chief Election Commissioner of India S.Y. Quraishi India CEO, Open Government Partnership (OGP) Sanjay Pradhan India Director, Gateway House Mumbai Neelam Deo India Sociologist Surendra Munshi India Director, Common Cause Vipul Mudgal India Former Attorney General of Indonesia and Member of the House of RepresentativesMarzuki Darusman Indonesia Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Executive Director, Perludem Titi Anggraini Indonesia Former CEO and Editor in Chief, Tempo Magazine Bambang Harymurti Indonesia Former Fellow, the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School ofAzar Advanced Nafisi International Studies (SAIS) Iran New York Times Best-Seller Author Artist and Board Member, the Center for Human Rights in Iran Nazanin Boniadi Iran Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace, Jindal Global University Ramin Jahanbegloo Iran Nobel Peace Laureate; Founder, Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran Shirin Ebadi Iran Co-founder, Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human LadanRights Boroumandand Democracy in Iran Iran Chairman, Al-Tahreer Association for Development Abdalaziz Younis Aljarba Iraq Executive Director, the Iraqi al-Firdaws Society Fatima al-Bahadli Iraq Member of Parliament Sarkawt Shamsulddin Iraq Founder and Director, Global Justice Academy Christine Bell Ireland Professor of Constitutional Law and Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh Former Prime Minister of Ireland John Bruton Ireland Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former EU Ambassador to the United States Former Attorney General of Israel and Deputy President of the Supreme Court Elyakim Rubinstein Israel Former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Finance Dan Meridor Israel Former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Housing and ConstructionNatan Sharansky Israel Former Head of the Jewish Agency Professor, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Member of the Israel Academy ofShlomo Sciences Avineri and Humanities Israel Professor of Law at theRadzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya Yaniv Roznai Israel Former Prime Minister of Italy Enrico Letta Italy Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, Paris President, Venice Commission for Democracy Gianni Buquicchio Italy President, the International Center on Democracy and Democratisation (ICEDD), LeonardoLUISS University Morlino in Rome Italy Emeritus Professor of Political Science, LUISS University, Rome; Former President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Former Member of Parliament Matteo Mecacci Italy President, International Campaign for Tibet Former Prime Minister of Jamaica PJ Patterson Jamaica Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former Chair of the UN Security Council Associate Professor of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University Maiko Ichihara Japan Chairman, Asia Pacific Initiative Yoichi Funabashi Japan Award winning journalist, colimnist and author. Chairman, Japan Center for International Exchange Yukio Takasu Japan Former Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Former Minister of Energy and Minister of Planning of Jordan Ibrahim Saif Jordan Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan Marwan Muasher Jordan General Director, Al Quds Center for Political Studies Oraib Al Rantawi Jordan Directorof the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of LawYevgeniy Zhovtis Kazakhstan Executive Director, Network of African National Human Rights Institutions Gilbert Sebihogo Kenya Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga Kosovo Program Director, Sbunker Aagon Maliqi Kosovo Former President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otumbayeva Kyrgyzstan Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Res Publica Zamira Sysykova Kyrgyzstan Recipient of the Courage in Journalism Award of the International Women’s Media Foundation Former Member of Parliament Cholpon Idinovna Djakupova Kyrgyzstan Former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga Latvia Founding Member, Club de Madrid Former Prime Minister of Latvia Valdis Birkavs Latvia Executive Director, Naymote Partners for Democratic Development Eddie D. Jarwolo Liberia Nobel Peace Laureate; President, The Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Leymah R. Gbowee Liberia Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Mantas Adomenas Lithuania Former President of Lithuania Vytautas Landsbergis Lithuania Member of the European Parliament and Former Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius Lithuania Chairman, Subcommittee on Transatlantic Relations and Democracy Development,Emanuelis Parliament Zingeris of Lithuania Lithuania Chair, The Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis Sarunas Liekis Lithuania Deputy Chair, European Affairs Committee of the Parliament Zygimantas Pavilionis Lithuania Founder and Director, the Islamic Renaissance Front (IFR) Ahmad Farouk Malaysia Former Prime Minister of Malta Lawrence Gonzi Malta Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former Minister of Social Policy; Former Deputy Prime Minister Former President of Mauritius Cassam Uteem Mauritius Vice President, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid; Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Historian and Editor, Letras Libres Enrique Krauze Mexico Former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo Mexico Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico Jorge Castaneda Mexico Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico Claudia Ruiz Massieu Mexico Professor, Colegio de Mexico, Visiting Scientist, Harvard University Sergio Aguayo Mexico Former Prime Minister of Moldova Maia Sandu Moldova Special Advisor, the Zorig Foundation; Former Ambassador of Mongolia to India Sanjaasuren Bayaraa Mongolia President, Center for Democratic Transision Milica Kovacevic Montenegro Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro Srdjan Darmanovic Montenegro Director, Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis Mohammed Masbah Morocco Professor of Islamic Studies, Hassan II University Mokhtar Benabdallaoui Morocco Former President of the Republic of Mozambique Joaquim Alberto Chissano Mozambique Chairperson, the Joaquim Chissano Foundation Former Chief Election Commissioner of Nepal Bhoj Raj Pokharel Nepal Development professional and women's rights activist Pragya Lamsal Nepal Former Member of the European Parliament Emine Bozkurt Netherlands President, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Hans van Baalen Netherlands Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende Netherlands Former Minister of Finance of the Netherlands Jeroen Dijsselbloem Netherlands Former President, Eurogroup Member of the European Parliament Kati Piri Netherlands Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Netherlands Member of Parliament Lilianne Ploumen Netherlands Former Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark New Zealand Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former Deputy Prime Minister; Former Administrator of the UNDP Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand Don McKinnon New Zealand Editor, Confidencial Carlos Fernando Chamorro Nicaragua Founder, the Violeta Chamorro Foundation Cristiana Chamorro Nicaragua Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria Chair, the West Africa Commission on Drugs Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka Nigeria Founding Chairman, the Transition Monitoring Group Clement Nwankwo Nigeria Founder, the Center for Law Enforcement Education Innocent Chukwuma Nigeria Senior Fellow, Center for Democracy and Development Abuja Jibrin Ibrahim Nigeria Legal Practitioner and Former Chairperson, Steering Committee of the World MovementAyo Obe for Democracy Nigeria Executive Director, Center for Advocacy in Gender and Social Inclusion CAGSI Maryam Garba Usman Nigeria Advocate for gender equity and youth inclusion in politics; Member of the BoardRinsola of Directors Abiola of Young Women in Politics ForumNigeria Executive Director, YIAGA and Initiator of the Not Too Young to Run campaign Samson Itodo Nigeria President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia Oliver Spasovski North Macedonia Former Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev North Macedonia Former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik Norway Founder and Executive Chair, the Oslo Center Former Secretary-General, International IDEA Vidar Helgesen Norway Secretary-General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee Bjørn Engesland Norway President, the Oslo Freedom Forum Thor Halvorssen Norway Director, South and Central Asia, The Hudson Institute Husain Haqqani Pakistan Former Ambassador the U.S Founder and Chairperson, Aware Girl Gulalai Ismail Pakistan CEO, Civic Concerns Zafarullah Khan Pakistan Former Member of Parliament Azmi Shuabi Palestine Palestinian Intellectual Walid Salem Palestine CEO, the Digicel PNG Foundation Serena Sumanop Papua New Guinea Former Senator and Minister of Justice and Labor of Paraguay Diego Abente Brun Paraguay Former Member, the United Nations Committee for the Convention on the EliminationLine Bareiro of all Forms of Discrimination AgainstParaguay Women (CEDAW) Political Scientist and Lawyer, the National University of Asuncion, Paraguay Member of the Academia Paraguaya de la Historia Milda Rivarola Paraguay The President of the Council of Ministers of Peru and National Ombudswoman Beatriz Merino Peru Former Director, the Women’s Leadership Programme Professor, University of Santiago of Chile Lucia Dammert Peru Nobel Laureate for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa Peru Journalist and Director, IDL-Reporter Gustavo Gorriti Peru Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights Chito Gascon Philippines CEO and Executive Editor, Rappler Maria Ressa Philippines Leading figure on the Information and Democracy Commission; former lead CNN investigative journalist and author; Time's Person of the Year 2018 Corporate Secretary, iLEAD Maxine Tanya Hamada Philippines Chairperson, INCITEGov Teresita Quintos-Deles Philippines Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland Adam Bodnar Poland Member of the European Parliament and Former Prime Minister of Poland Jerzy Buzek Poland Former President of the European Parliament Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa Poland Member of the European Parliament Radosław Sikorski Poland Former Foreign Minister and Minister of Defence of Poland; Chairman, the EU-USA Delegation Former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski Poland Film Director Agnieszka Holland Poland President, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Danuta Przywara Poland Former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Finance Leszek Balcerowicz Poland Former Mayor of Wroclaw Rafal Dutkiewicz Poland Director, Krytyka Polityczna Sławomir Sierakowski Poland Director, the Institute of Political Studies, Catholic University of Lisbon Joao Carlos Espada Portugal Former Member of the European Parliament Ana Gomes Portugal Director, Anti-Kleptocracy Strategy of Sassoufit Collective Andrea Ngombet Republic of Congo President, LOTUS Group Dismas Kitenge Republic of Congo Member of National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Ha Taekyung Republic of Korea Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chairman, Asan Institute for Policy Studies Han SungJoo Republic of Korea Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Hong-koo Lee Republic of Korea Member of National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Ji Seong ho Republic of Korea North Korean defector Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea Kak Soo Shin Republic of Korea Fellow, Institute for Corean-American Studies; Former Ambassador; Former Deputy Permanent Representative at the Korean Mission to the United Nations Ranking Member of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee of the National AssemblyKeum Tae Sup Republic of Korea Member of National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Kim Se Yeon Republic of Korea Former South Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Oh Joon Republic of Korea Member of National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Seung-hee Hwangbo Republic of Korea Member of National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Thae Youngho Republic of Korea President, East Asia Institute Sook Jong Lee Republic of Korea Former Prime Minister of Romania Petre Roman Romania Democracy Chair, Hertie School of Governance Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Romania Professor, the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations Alexander Likhotal Russia Advisor, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid; Former President, Green Cross International Writer and Visiting Fellow, the Hudson Institute Andrei Piontkovsky Russia Chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI); Chairman, the Human Rights FoundationGarry Kasparov Russia Russian chess grandmaster, Former World Chess Champion, Writer, and Political Activist President, Union of Right Forces (SPS) Leonid Gozman Russia Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy Lilia Shevtsova Russia Former Political Prisoner and Opposition Leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky Russia Chairman, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom Vladimir Kara-Murza Russia Co-founder, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom Zhanna Nemtsova Russia Journalist and Social Activist Founder, ALQST Yahya Assiri Saudi Arabia Human rights activist Former Member and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Senegal; FormerAbdoulaye UN Under-Secretary Bathily General Senegal Co-founder of Y’en a Marre Cheikh Oumar Cyrille Touré (aka Thiat) Senegal Historian and President, Mouvement Citoyen Penda Mbow Senegal Founder, Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) Andrej Nosov Serbia Founder, Humanitarian Law Center Natasa Kandić Serbia Chair, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Sonja Biserko Serbia Director, Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability Vukosava Crnjanski Serbia Coordinator, the World Youth Movement for Democracy Ivan Đurić Serbia Former President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations; Advisor, the World LeadershipNoeleen Alliance-Club Heyzer de Madrid ; Former UnitedSingapore Nations Secretary-General’sFormer Executive Special Secretary,Adviser for UNESCAP; Timor-Leste Former United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for Timor-Leste Member of the European Parliament Martin Hojsik Slovakia Member of the European Parliament Peter Pollak Slovakia Former Prime Minister of Slovakia Iveta Radicova Slovakia Honorary Chairman, Institute for Public Affairs Martin Butora Slovakia Chairperson, Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network Hassan Shire Somalia Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Adam Habib South Africa Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of South Africa FW de Klerk South Africa Founder, the Global Leadership Foundation Founder, Graca Machel Trust; Executive Chair, Mandele Institute for DevelopmentGraca Studies Machel in Johannesburg South Africa Former Public Protector of South Africa; Founder, Thuma Foundation for DemocracyThuli Leadership Madonsela and Literacy South Africa Director, esGlobal Cristina Manzano Spain Member, the European Council on Foreign Relation Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain Ana Palacio Spain Former Under Secretary General and the Special Representative of the SecretaryRadhika General Coomaraswamy for Children and Armed Conflict Sri Lanka Co-founder and Executive Director, AFRIEL Youth Network Ravindra De Silva Sri Lanka President and CEO, the The Ratio Institute Nils Karlson Sweden Former Secretary-General, International IDEA Bengt Säve-Söderbergh Sweden Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt Sweden Former Member of the European Commission; Visiting Professor, the School of Business,Cecilia Malmström Economics and Law at the UniversitySweden of Gothenburg Secretary-General, Christian Democratic International Center Edvard Agrell Sweden Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallström Sweden Member, Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy Robert Hardh Sweden Former Executive Director, Civil Rights Defenders Former President of the Swiss Confederation Kaspar Villiger Switzerland Founding Member, the Global Leadership Foundation; Chairman, the UBS Foundation of Economics in Society Former President of the Swiss Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey Switzerland Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former President of the Council of Europe Former President of the Swiss Confederation Pascal Couchepin Switzerland Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former President of the Ministerial Assembly of the World Trade Organisation Former Executive Director, the Arab Reform Initiative Bassma Kodmani Syria Member of the Executive Yuan Council of Taiwan as Digital Minister Audrey Tang Taiwan Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China Joseph Wu Taiwan Former Member of the Senate of Thailand Jon Ungphakorn Thailand Historian and Recipient of the Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prize Nidhi Eoseewong Thailand President, Central Tibet Administration Lobsang Sangay Tibet Nobel Peace Laureate and Former President of East Timor Jose Ramos-Horta Timor Leste Director, Al Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center Amine Ghali Tunisia Academic Executive Director, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy; Civil societyRadwan activist A. Masmoudi Tunisia Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Hikmet Çetin Turkey Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Yakin Ertürk Turkey Former UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Director, Federation Development, ActionAid International Arthur Larok Uganda Executive Director, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative; UN Independent LivingstoneExpert on Promoting Sewanyana a Democratic and EquitableUganda International Order Excutive Director, Chapter Four Nicholas Opiyo Uganda President, the Ukrainian Catholic University Borys Gudziak Ukraine Director, Institute for EuroAtlantic Cooperation Borys Tarasyuk Ukraine Former Member of Parliament Mustafa Nayyem Ukraine Honorary President, Ukrainian PEN Center Mykola Riabchuk Ukraine Vice-rector, the Ukrainian Catholic University Myroslav Marynovych Ukraine Former prisoner of conscience (1977-1987) Founder, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Yevgeniy Zakharov Ukraine Former Member of Parliament and Former Advisor to Prime Minister Svitlana Zalishchuk Ukraine Professor of European Studies, Oxford University and Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution,Timothy Garton Stanford Ash University United Kingdom Former Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Baroness Lynda Chalker United Kingdom Founding Member, the Global Leadership Foundation; Founder and President, Africa Matters Limited Former Secretary-General, NATO Lord George Robertson United Kingdom Member of the Global Leadership Foundation; Former Secretary of State for Defence
Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School ofPippa Government, Norris Harvard University United Kingdom Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Sir Malcolm Rifkind United Kingdom Professor, the Political Science Institute, Universidad de la República in MontevideoAdolfo Garcé Uruguay Secretary-General, Organization of American States Luis Almagro Uruguay Director, the Agora Research Center, CY Cergy Paris University Catherine Marshall USA Former Editor, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal Marcus Brauchli USA Chairman, Freedom House; Former Second United States Secretary of HomelandMichael Security Chertoff USA Former Judge and Cabinet Secretary Journalist Rick Atkinson USA Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester A. Crocker USA Member of the Global Leadership Foundation Former United States Senator Gary Hart USA Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, ACXIOM Jerry Jones USA Advisor, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid President, the Inter-American Dialogue Michael Shifter USA Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service President and CEO, Anera and Advisor, the World Leadership Alliance-Club de MadridSean Carroll USA Chief Engagement Officer, World Justice Project Ted Piccone USA Former Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale USA Former USAID Administrator Brian Atwood USA Former Executive Director, UNICEF Carol Bellamy USA Co-founder, The American Interest Charles Davidson USA Assistant Chairman, International Democratic Union Chris Fussner USA Chair, Board of Trustees of the McCain Institute for International Leadership Cindy McCain USA Widow of Senator John McCain President, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Cliff May USA Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Constance Newman USA Former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, Davidand Labor J. Kramer USA Senior Fellow, Vaclav Havel Program on Human Rights and Diplomacy, Florida International University Member of the United States House of Representatives for North Carolina David Eugene Price USA Former Under Secretary of Defense Dov S. Zakheim USA Former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman USA Founding Member, the International Republican Institute; Co-chair, the CommissionFrank on J. the Fahrenkopf Presidential Debates USA Former Ambassador and Former Permanent Representative to the United NationsGaddi Agencies Vasquez for Food and Agriculture USA Board Member, IRI Former United States National Security Advisor Herbert Raymond McMaster USA Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Member of Board of Directors, the Atlantic Council Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush USA Editor-in-Chief and CEO, The American Interest Jeffrey Gedmin USA Former Congressman Jim Kolbe USA Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States Former United States Senator Kelly Ayotte USA Former Assistant Secretary of State Kristen Silverberg USA Former United States Ambassador to NATO and Special Representative for UkraineKurt Negotiations Volker USA Senior United States Senator for Florida Marco Rubio USA Executive Director, McCain Institute for International Leadership Mark Green USA Former Senior Director, National Security Council Mike Green USA President, Halifax International Security Forum Peter Van Praagh USA Policy Director, Ronald Reagan Institute Rachel Hoff USA Former Communications Director and Policy Advisor for John McCain at the Senate Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, the International Republican Institute Randy Scheunemann USA CEO, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Richard Fontaine USA Former Foreign Policy Advisor Director, Ronald Reagan Institute Roger Zakheim USA Former Commissioner, the Commission on the National Defense Strategy of the United States; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida Vern Buchanan USA Former United States Senator Barbara Mikulski USA President, National Security Action; Former Deputy National Security Advisor Benjamin Rhodes USA Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright USA Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Michael McFaul USA Former Congressman Sam Gejdenson USA Chairman, the National Endowment for Democracy Andrew Card USA Director, Scowcroft Institute of international affairs, Bush School of Government,Andrew Texas A&M Natsios University USA Former Editor, Survey of Freedom in the World, Freedom House Arch Puddington USA Former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson USA Former Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of Energy Coordinator, Biennial Conference on the State of Democracy, Loyola University ChicagoClaudio Lodici USA Former Congressman; ViceChair, the National Endowment for Democracy David Skaggs USA Admiral; Former United States Director of National Intelligence Dennis Cutler Blair USA Executive Director, Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator Eileen Donahoe USA Professor, Stanford University Francis Fukuyama USA Vice President, United Steelworkers Union Fred Redmond USA William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, the Ethics and Public Policy Center George Weigel USA Writer and Columnist George Will USA Director for Europe, Civil Rights Defenders Goran Miletic USA Chairman, the Center for International Private Enterprise Greg Lebedev USA Former Governor of Vermont; Chair, DNC Howard Dean USA Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman USA Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor John Shattuck USA President Emeritus, The Central European University Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson USA Author and Adjunct Professor, The Institute of World Politics Josh Muravchik USA Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Joshua Kurlantzick USA Former President, the National Democratic Institute Kenneth Wollack USA Former President of NDI; Former Legislative Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Senior Fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution & Freeman Spogli Institute Larry Diamond USA Former Ambassador to Poland Lee Feinstein USA Editor, Liberties Leon Wieseltier USA Former Member of Harvard Society of Fellows Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas Greenfield USA President and CEO, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Liz Schrayer USA Secretary-Treasurer, the AFL-CIO Liz Shuler USA Coeditor Emeritus, Journal of Democracy Marc Plattner USA Former United States Senator Mel Martinez USA Former United States Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer USA Director, Middle East Program, the Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceMichele Dunne USA Senior Fellow, the Carnegie Endowment for Peace Moises Naim USA Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution Norman Eisen USA Founder, the Heroic Imagination Project Philip Zimbardo USA Former House Majority Leader; Former Chairman, NED Richard Gephardt USA Founder, the Gere Foundation; Chairman, The International Campaign for Tibet Richard Gere USA Senior Vice President for Policy, Human Rights First Rob Berschinski USA President, the Hurford Foundation Robert C. Miller USA Professor of History, Harvard University Serhii Plokhii USA Executive Director, Transatlantic Democracy Working Group, German Marshall FundSusan Corke USA PEN America, CEO Suzanne Nossel USA Senior Fellow, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Thomas Carothers USA Former United States Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle USA Professor of History, Yale University; Permanent Fellow, the Institute for Human SciencesTimothy Snyderin Vienna USA Senior Fellow, the Hudson Institute Tod Linberg USA Chair, the Human Freedom Advisory Council of the George W. Bush Presidential CenterTom Bernstein USA Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland USA Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution William A. Galston USA Director, the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia William Antholis USA Former United States Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns USA Director, Defending Democracy Together William Kristol USA Executive Director, Instituto Venezolano de Estudios Sociales y Políticos Francine Jácome Venezuela Youth Coordinator, Voluntad Popular Hasler Iglesias Venezuela Member of National Assembly of Venezuela Tamara Adrian Venezuela Chairman, the Civil Society Forum Nguyen Quang A Vietnam Nobel Peace Laureate; Founder, Women Journalists Without Chains Tawakkol Karman Yemen Founding Director, Institute for Young Women Development Glanis Changachirere Zimbabwe