RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

Fatema Kothari

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Gerard Quinn

U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities

Irene Khan

U.N Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion

Estelle Massé

Senior Policy Analyst and Global Data Protection Lead, Access Now

Estelle is Senior Policy Analyst and Global Data Protection Lead at Access Now. Her work focuses on data protection, privacy, surveillance and telecoms policies. In particular, Estelle leads the work of the organization on data protection in the EU and around the world. She is a member of the Multistakeholder Expert Group of the European Commission to support the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She graduated with a Master in European Law from the University of Granada, Spain.

Micaela Mantegna

Lawyer specialized in video games and AI, Berkman Klein Center

Cory Doctorow

Activist, Science Fiction Author, Attack Surface

Jane Coffin

Senior Vice President, Internet Growth, ISOC

Colin Crowell

Former Vice President of Global Public Policy, Twitter

Xiaowei Wang

Creative Director, Logic Magazine

Jeppe Kofod

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

U.N. Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights

UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism

Sejal Parmar

Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield

Catherine Muya

Tech Policy Fellow, Lawyers Hub Kenya

Scott Busby

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State

Burcu Kilic

Director, Digital Rights Program, Public Citizen

Rita Skjærvik

SVP Strategy & External Relations, Telenor

Lina al-Hathloul

Saudi activist, sister of Loujain al-Hathloul

Eleanor Sarpong

Deputy Director and Policy lead, Alliance for Affordable Internet

Marwa Fatafta

Middle East and North Africa Policy Manager, Access Now

Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa region as the MENA Policy Manager. She is an advisory board member of the Palestinian digital rights organization 7amleh, and a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network working on issues of political leadership, governance and accountability. Before joining Access Now, Marwa worked as the MENA Regional Advisor at Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin and coordinated regional and global efforts to mainstream gender into anti-corruption policies and norms. She previously served as a Communications Manager at the British Consulate-General in Jerusalem. She was a Fulbright scholar to the US and holds an MA in International Relations from Syracuse University and an MA in Development and Governance from the University of Duisburg-Essen. Marwa is a feminist killjoy, a painter, and a chocolate addict.

Nat Gyenes

Director, Digital Health Lab, Meedan

Joyce Hakmeh

Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House

Evelyn Douek

Lecturer and SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School

Peace Oliver Amuge

Executive Director, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)

Vijaya Gadde

Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust, Twitter

Zaituni Njovu

Executive Director, Zaina Foundation Tanzania

Virginia Pérez Alonso

Director of Público

Kishonna Gray

Professor, Author, "Intersectional Tech"

Prof. Changrok Soh

U.N. Human Rights Committee Member

Joan Katambi

Founder and Team Leader, Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI)

Farzaneh Badiei

Director of Social Media Governance Initiative, Yale Law School

Sheetal Kumar

Senior Programme Lead, Global Partners Digital

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Co-Founder and Executive Director of Equality Labs

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Steering Committee, designjustice.org

Wafa Ali Mustafa

Syrian activist and journalist

Pamela Coke-Hamilton

Executive Director, International Trade Centre

Marlena Wisniak

Senior Advisor, AI and Human Rights, ECNL

Safiya Umoja Noble

Associate Professor, UCLA; Co-Founder and Co-Director, C2i2

Antonio Zappulla

Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Aurora Diaz-Rato Revuelta

Permanent Representative of Spain to the UN Office Geneva

Laura Schwartz-Henderson

Senior Program Officer, Global Technology, Internews

Mary Lawlor

U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders

Katie Shay

Head of Privacy Legal & Human Rights, Cisco

Jarmo Sareva

Ambassador for Innovation, Finland

Kristen Tcherneshoff

Programs Director, Wikitongues

Nick Clegg

Vice President of Global Affairs & Communications, Facebook

Clint Smith

Chief Legal Officer, Discord

Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen

Denmark’s Tech Ambassador

Jane Horvath

Chief Privacy Officer, Apple

Zahra Stardust

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University

Bruna Martins dos Santos

Advocacy Coordinator, Data Privacy Brazil Research Association

Eileen Donahoe

Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford

Beatriz Busaniche

Director, Fundación Vía Libre

Pedro Vaca

Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, IACHR

Carmen Cheung

Executive Director, Center for Justice and Accountability

Cameron F. Kerry

Ann R. & Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Mireille Miller-Young

Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSB

Adeboye Adegoke

Senior Program Manager, Paradigm Initiative

Joan Donovan

Research Director of the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Jennifer Stein

Acting Section Chief Internet Freedom, Business and HR, US DOS

Mohamad Najem

Executive Director, SMEX

Jiz Lee

Marketing Director, Pink & White Productions

Ashley Fowler

Technical Program Officer, Global Technology, Internews

Jessica Ashooh

Director of Policy, Reddit

Hadi Al Khatib

Executive Director, Mnemonic; Founder, Syrian Archive

Professor Can Yeginsu

Member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom

Javier Pallero

Policy Director, Access Now

Javier is Access Now's Policy Director. Before joining Access Now, he worked for several years with digital rights organizations in Argentina, conducting policy analysis and promoting human rights activism on the net. He also was a teaching assistant at Cordoba's National University in Argentina on the subject of Internet Law and Economics while serving as a consultant and speaker in the local media. In addition to all of this, Javier is an amateur musician who is passionate about the internet and its power for social change.

Katrin Tiidenberg

Professor of Participatory Culture, Tallinn University

Eliška Pírková

Europe Policy Analyst and Global Freedom of Expression Lead, Access Now

Eliska Pirkova works as Access Now’s Europe Policy Analyst and Global Freedom of Expression Lead based in Brussels. She has been working on her doctoral dissertation focused on freedom of expression on the internet, online content regulation and intermediary liability. Before Access Now, she was a trainee at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, where she researched and co-drafted policy papers concerning online terrorist content, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on fundamental rights and the use of face recognition technologies by public authorities. Prior to that, Eliska worked as a legal researcher for an international research project funded by the Academy of Finland in Helsinki. Eliska has a diverse background in human rights. She holds a European Master degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, and she researched and worked in the field of minority rights at a number of institutions, including the the Council of Europe and the European Centre for Minority Issues in Kosovo. Eliska is a research fellow at the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab in Vienna. She is a huge coffee lover and a big fan of nocciola gelato.

Neema Iyer

Executive Director, Pollicy

Waad Al-Kateab

Filmmaker, Activist, Founder of Action For Sama

Kyung Sin Park

Director, Open Net Korea

Maize Longboat

Producer, Writer, and Game Designer

Supriya Sharma

Executive Editor, Scroll.in

David R. Boyd

U.N. Special Rapporteur on the environment

Osama Manzar

Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

Yara Sallam

Egyptian feminist and author of Even the Finest of Warriors

Mama Fatima Singhateh

U.N Special Rapporteur on sale and exploitation of children

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

CEO and Founder of Women at the Table

Paz Peña

Consultant on tech, environment, and social justice

Clément Voule

U.N. Special Rapporteur Freedom of Association

Kojo Boakye

Director of Public Policy for Africa, Facebook

Chenie Yoon

Head of Public Policy, Twitter Korea

Agnès Callamard

Secretary General, Amnesty International

Emily van der Nagel

Lecturer in Social Media, Monash University

Mariam Barghouti

Writer; Research and Policy Analyst, Al-Shabaka

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng

Special Rapporteur on the right to health

Julie Owono

Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières

Julie Owono is a lawyer and the founder of start-up Feowl, a platform that produces data on energy in African cities. She is the head of the Africa Desk at Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders), where she focuses on Rights and Freedoms in the digital space, and develops the organization globally. She regularly writes columns for various publications, including Al Jazeera English and Quartz, on issues related to politics, law and innovation in the Gulf of Guinea. She often appears as a Gulf of Guinea expert on International TV channels (France 24 English, BBC World, Russia Today, Huff Post Live, etc).

Mutale Nkonde

Leader, AI for the People

Matthew Prince

Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare

Peggy Hicks

Director, U.N. Human Rights

Melody Patry

Advocacy Director, Access Now

Melody Patry (Email: [email protected]) is Advocacy Director at Access Now. She leads on global advocacy, communications, and campaigns, working closely with the Policy and Tech teams to develop the strategies and partnerships needed to protect the internet and those who use it. Previously, Melody was head of advocacy at free speech organization Index on Censorship in London, where she worked with human rights defenders, government officials, and in coalitions such as the Global Network Initiative, the Civic Solidarity Platform, and Don’t Spy on Us. Before that, she worked with Cairo-based grassroots organizations and artists on campaigns addressing women’s rights issues, assisted the Representative to the European Union for Doctors Without Borders, and acted as a political advisor for the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations. She holds an MA in International Security from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in Law and Political Science from Lille II University.

Gbenga Sesan

Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative

Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative. Originally trained as an Electronic & Electrical Engineer at Obafemi Awolowo University, Gbenga completed Executive Education programs at Lagos Business School, New York Group for Technology Transfer, Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, Santa Clara University and University of the Pacific. His consulting experience includes assignments completed for numerous institutions, including Microsoft, Harvard University and United Nations agencies, among others, in over 30 countries. A Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2014) and former member of the United Nations Committee of eLeaders on Youth and ICT, he is a CyberStewards Fellow, Crans Montana Forum Fellow, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, Our Common Future Fellow and Cordes Fellow. Gbenga served as a member of the Presidential committees on Harmonization of Information Technology, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Sectors (2006) and Roadmap for the Achievement of Accelerated Universal Broadband Infrastructure and Services Provision (2013), and was listed by CNN as one of the Top 10 African Tech Voices on Twitter and by Ventures Africa as one of 40 African Legends Under 40.

Brett Solomon

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Access Now

Brett Solomon is the co-founder and Executive Director of Access—a non-profit human rights organization focused on digital freedom. The Access mission is to ensure open global internet access and an uncensored and secure digital sphere, working to create a world where citizens can be active participants in their future by freely seeking, receiving and imparting information digitally. Prior to Access, he was the Campaign Director at the 6.5 million member strong Avaaz.org, and before that the first Executive Director of GetUp!, an Australian grass roots political organization with over 430,000 members. Solomon completed a Bachelors of Law at the University of Sydney, a Masters in International Law at the University of NSW, founded the International Youth Parliament and worked for many years at both Oxfam Australia and Amnesty International Australia.

Maria Ressa

CEO, Rappler

Miranda Sissons

Director of Human Rights, Facebook

Raman Jit Singh Chima

Asia Policy Director, Senior International Counsel, Access Now

Raman Jit Singh Chima serves as Asia Policy Director and Senior International Counsel at Access Now, leading the organization's work in protecting an open internet and advancing the rights of users at risk across the region. He is a founding volunteer with the SaveTheInternet.in Net Neutrality Coalition and assisted the legal team involved in the Supreme Court of India's landmark Shreya Singhal v. Union of India judgment on internet free speech. Prior to this, he served as Policy Counsel and Government Affairs Manager with Google based in Delhi across 2010-2014 and advised government, industry bodies and academia on technology policy issues. He is an India qualified lawyer enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi and clerked for Justice V.S. Sirpurkar of the Supreme Court of India, in addition to training with India's National Judicial Academy and National Human Rights Commission. Raman has studied internet regulation as an independent research fellow with the Sarai programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and contributed to Freedom House's inaugural Freedom on the Internet report in 2009. He holds a Bachelors in Arts and Law (Honours) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, where he was Chief Editor of the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.

Berhan Taye

Senior Advisor, Internet Governance and Policy Global Internet Freedom

Caroline Greer

Director of Public Policy & Government Relations, TikTok

Megha Rajagopalan

International Correspondent, BuzzFeed News

Lene Wendland

Head of Business & Human Rights, UN Human Rights