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RightsCon 2022 Speakers

Every year, RightsCon brings together 1000+ speakers from a range of sectors and around the world. Check out a small selection of business leaders, technologists, government representatives, activists joining us for RightsCon (June 6-10, 2022).

Micaela Mantegna

Abogamer; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Chelsea Manning

Security and Hardware Optimization Advisor, Nymtech

Fadi Salem

Director of Policy Research, Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government

Mélanie Joly

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada

Lydia X. Z. Brown

Policy Counsel, Privacy & Data Project, Center for Democracy & Technology

Khari Johnson

Senior Staff Writer, WIRED

Agnès Callamard

Secretary General, Amnesty International

Karen Smit

Principal Specialist: Specific Needs, Vodacom South Africa

Chérif El Kadhi

MENA Policy Analyst, Access Now

Itika Sharma Punit

South Asia Editor, Rest of World

Teki Akuetteh

Founder and Executive Director, Africa Digital Rights Hub; ICT Lawyer; Data Protection Consultant

Urvashi Aneja

Founder and Executive Director, Digital Futures Lab

Peter Stern

Director, Content Policy Stakeholder Engagement, Meta

Agustina Del Campo

Director, Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Universidad de Pale

Anna Gielewska

Vice-Chairman, Reporters Foundation (Poland)

Harry Halpin

CEO, Nym Technologies SA

Rua M. Williams

PhD, Assistant Professor in User Experience Design, Purdue University

John Githongo

CEO, Inuka

Samantha Power

Administrator, United States Agency for International Development

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

CEO, Watchdog Sri Lanka; Senior Researcher, LIRNEasia

Antaraa Vasudev

Founder, Civis.Vote

Angela Hession

Global VP of Trust and Safety, Twitch

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Lama Aloraiman

Co-Founder and Vice President, Ignition Kuwait; Former National Point of Contact for Kuwait, Space G

Stephen Bonner

Executive Director of Regulatory Futures and Innovation, Information Commissioner's Office, Governme

Dorothy Mukasa

Executive Director, Unwanted Witness

Victoria Heath

Member, Space Generation Advisory Council - Space Law and Policy Project Group

Natalie Patrice Tucker

Senior Accessibility Lead, Spotify

Pedro Vaca Villarreal

Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Arda Awais

Co-Creator, Identity 2.0

María Paz Canales

Global Policy Advisor, Derechos Digitales

Esha Bhandari

Deputy Director, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, ACLU

Kyung-sin Park

Executive Director, Open Net Korea

Dr. Wilneida Negrón

Director of Research and Policy, Coworker.org

Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul

Thai Pro-Democracy Activist; Leader, United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration

Vint Cerf

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Anne-Marie Slaughter

CEO, New America

Cecília Olliveira

Journalist; Executive Director, Instituto Fogo Cruzado

Julie Inman-Grant

eSafety Commissioner, Government of Australia

Rachita Taneja

Political Cartoonist; Creator, Sanitary Panels

Michael Hull

President, Psiphon

Joanne McNeil

Author of Lurking

Emre Kizilkaya

Vice-Chair, International Press Institute (IPI); Chair, IPI National Committee, Turkey; Project Edit

DJ Switch

Nigerian DJ; #EndSARS Movement Activist

Bernard Chiira

Director, Innovate Now: Africa’s 1st Assistive Tech Accelerator

Abby May

Investigator, Open Secrets

Timo Harakka

Minister of Transport and Communications, Government of Finland

Samaneh Moafi

Senior Researcher, Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London

Manal al-Sharif

Human Rights Activist; Cybersecurity Expert; Founder, The Ethical Technologists Society; Host, Tech4

Delphine Halgand-Mishra

Executive Director, The Signals Network

Zen Mathe

Investigator, Open Secrets

Chawki Gaddes

President of the Tunisian National Authority for Protection of Personal Data (INPDP), Government of

Mylene Cabalona

President, BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN)

Chung Ching Kwong

Hong Kong Digital Rights Activist; Hong Kong Campaigns Coordinator, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on

Sara Matthieu

Member of the European Parliament

Niousha Roshani

Director LatAm, Digital Connectivity & Inclusion, United Capital Group

Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen

Danish Tech Ambassador, Government of Denmark

Brittany

Organizing Director, Facebook Users Union

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, United Nations

Sophie in ‘t Veld

Member of the European Parliament

Juliana Castro Varón

Senior Designer, Access Now; Founder, Cita Press

Savena Surana

Co-Creator, Identity 2.0

Jane Chung

Labor Organizer, The Worker Agency

Carol Ndosi

Director, Women at Web Tanzania

Bojana Bellamy

President, Center for Information Policy Leadership

Felicia Anthonio

#KeepItOn Campaign Manager, Access Now

Aye Min Thant

Features Editor, Frontier Myanmar

Ayoade Ibrahim

Founder and President, National Union of Professional App-based Transport Workers; Founding Member a

Mona Shtaya

Advocacy Advisor, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media

Nick Allardice

CEO, Change.org

Pang Khee Teik

Malaysian Activist; Co-Founder, Seksualiti Merdeka

Eileen Donahoe

Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University

Sophie Zhang

Whistleblower

Maulie Dass

Senior Director, Cisco Innovation Labs, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Charlotte Godart

Investigator & Global Authentication Project Lead, Bellingcat

Helena Leurent

Director General, Consumers International

Jawad Fairooz

Chairman, SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights

Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister of New Zealand

Michelle Bachelet

High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations

Nadim Nashif

Executive Director, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

National Leader of Belarus, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Maria Ressa

Co-founder & CEO, Rappler; Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Dr. Joy Buolamwini

Founder, Algorithmic Justice League

Zahra Nader

Afghan Journalist; Contributing Reporter, Fuller Project; PhD Student, Women and Gender Studies, Yor

Antony J. Blinken

United States Secretary of State

Thomas Volmer

Director, Head of Global Content Delivery Policy, Netflix

Camille François

Global Director for Trust & Safety, Niantic; Lecturer, Columbia University SIPA

Julie Owono

Executive Director, Content Policy & Society Lab, Stanford University; Executive Director, Internet

Peggy Hicks

Director, Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, UN Human Rights

Emilar Gandhi

Global Head of Inclusivity, Policy Development, Meta

Jac sm Kee

Co-Founder and Cartographer, Numun Fund

Henri Verdier

Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Government of France

Berhan Taye

Senior Advisor, Internews

Dia Kayyali

Associate Director for Advocacy, Mnemonic

Rumman Chowdhury

Director of META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability), Twitter

Jason Pielemeier

Executive Director, Global Network Initiative

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