2024 Speakers

Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
One of The Most Celebrated Authors of Our Time

Masih Alinejad
Masih Alinejad
Iranian Journalist and Women’s Rights Activist

Audrey Tang
Audrey Tang(2016-2024)
Taiwan’s First Digital Minister

Nathan Law
Nathan Law
Hong Kong Democracy Activist

David French
David French
Columnist, The New York Times

Suzanne Nossel
Suzanne Nossel
President and CEO, Freedom Forum

Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen
New York Law School Professor Emerita and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Musa Al-Gharbi
Musa Al-Gharbi
Assistant Professor of Journalism, Communication and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stony Brook University

Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub
Columnist, The Washington Post

James Bennet
James Bennet
Senior Editor and Lexington Columnist, The Economist

Daniel Diermeier
Daniel Diermeier
Founder and Executive Director, The Future of Free Speech

Jacob Mchangama
Jacob Mchangama
Founder and Executive Director, The Future of Free Speech

Sarah McLaughlin
Sarah McLaughlin
Senior Scholar, Global Expression, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Freddie Sayers
Freddie Sayers
Editor-in-Chief and CEO, UnHerd

John M. Seigenthaler
John M. Seigenthaler
Partner, Finn Partners and former NBC anchor

Renee DiResta
Renee DiResta
Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
Founder, Ideas Beyond Borders; social entrepreneur in Middle East development.

Samar Ali
Samar Ali
Research Professor of Political Science and Law and Co-Chair, Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy

Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte
Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte
Deputy Director, Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión (CELE)

Joan Barata
Joan Barata
Senior Legal Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

Matt Brassard
Matt Brassard
Head of Growth, Ground News

Anupam Chander
Anupam Chander
Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law

Neil Chilson
Neil Chilson
Head of A.I. Policy, The Abundance Institute

Mishi Choudhary
Mishi Choudhary
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Virtu

Rodrigo Dianamti
Rodrigo Dianamti
President & Founder, Un Mundo Sin Mordaza

Inaya Folarin Iman
Inaya Folarin Iman
Journalist and Executive Director, Equiano Project

Sayash Kapoor
Sayash Kapoor
Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow & Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Ritu Kapur
Ritu Kapur
CEO and Co-Founder, The Quint

Amna Khalid
Amna Khalid
Associate Professor in the Department of History, Carleton College

Kosseff
Kosseff
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

Billion Lee
Billion Lee
Co-Founder and Director, Cofacts

Chidi Odinkalu
Chidi Odinkalu
Professor of Practice in International Human Rights Law, Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Szabolcs Pany
Szabolcs Pany
Investigative Editor, Central European Investigations, VSquare

David Plazas
David Plazas
Opinion and Engagement Director, The Tennessean

Jonas Parello-Plesner
Jonas Parello-Plesner
Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Guilherme Döring Cunha
Guilherme Döring Cunha
Pereira President, Gazeta do Povo

Francesca Procaccini
Francesca Procaccini
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School

Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Acadia University

Freddie Sayers
Freddie Sayers
Editor-in-Chief & CEO, UnHerd

John M. Siegenthaler
John M. Siegenthaler
Partner at Finn Partners and former NBC anchor