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Tamar Chugoshvili
Tamar Chugoshvili is a democracy advocate, lawyer, and public administration specialist with 20 years of experience advancing good governance, the rule of law, and gender equality. She served as First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia (2016–2020), where she championed institutional reforms, strengthened parliamentary oversight, and led key gender equality initiatives. She also headed Georgia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), chaired the Parliamentary Friendship Group with the U.S. Congress, and served as an ambassador for the Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL). A dedicated anti-corruption advocate, Tamar proposed a reform package to establish an Independent Anti-Corruption Mechanism in Parliament. Previously, as chair of the…
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Amna Baig
Amna Baig is a superintendent of police and a policy expert who stands among the mere 2% of women in Pakistan's police officer corps leadership. Throughout her career, she has focused on combating gender-based violence in a country ranked 145th out of 146 on the global gender gap index. Amna established Pakistan's first Gender Protection Unit, a 24/7 facility that handled over 1,000 cases within six months, improving access to essential services for vulnerable populations. Her policy work includes drafting investigation guidelines for the Anti-Rape Ordinance Committee as a member. At Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, Amna conducted research focusing on technology-facilitated violence against women (TFVAW), revealing how digital threats…
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XU Heqian
Xu Heqian is a Senior Editor for International News and a member of the Editorial Board of Caixin Media, specializing in analyzing and reporting geopolitical dynamics, China’s foreign policy, and cross-straits affairs. He has a long-standing interest and curiosity in historical, cultural, identity, and ideological factors in international affairs. At Caixin Media, Heqian and his colleagues are committed to broadening communication channels between Chinese readers and plural international perspectives. They try to provide the most unbiased possible foreign affairs reporting to Chinese society whose influence is increasingly spreading beyond China’s borders, and to enrich readers’ understanding of global affairs amid the complexity of the ideological and narrative struggles. Heqian grew…
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Leticia Jauregui Casanueva
Leticia Jauregui Casanueva, a fervent advocate for gender equality and financial health, is exploring the intersection of capital markets, climate change, and critical minerals to drive a just transition. As an entrepreneur and investor, she is renowned for her expertise in exponential technologies, innovation, AI, and the metaverse. As Meta's Global Head of Education Partnerships, she has managed an immersive education fund focused on AI and the metaverse. She founded Crea, a non-profit social enterprise providing business development services to hundreds of thousands of women entrepreneurs in Mexico and Central America. As an independent board director and advisor across Latin America, the US, and Europe, Leticia currently serves on the…
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Anna Biryukova
Anna Biryukova is Head of Public Opinion Research at the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), Russia's most significant opposition organization, founded by Alexey Navalny. Anna joined the team of the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in 2013 during Navalny's election campaign for Mayor of Moscow. Since then, Anna has run independent and unbiased surveys, nationwide polls and focus groups, always under immense pressure from Putin's regime. In 2019 she was forced to leave her home country. Russian authorities considered her work — political polling — to be a terrorist and extremist activity. Living in exile in Lithuania, Anna has never stopped doing her research work. As ACF's head of polling, she manages…
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Nima Namdari
Nima Namdari is a social entrepreneur, technology professional, and a fighter to end poverty. He has played a key role in founding or growing eight startups with tens of millions of users, most of which empower low-income people. He is CEO of Karnameh, a platform for empowering low-income blue-collar freelancers in the auto industry. He is also Co-Founder of Baloot Saving, a fintech startup that helps families without pensions to save money. Nima has over two decades of experience in the technology industry, having worked in both the public and private sectors. He was the senior advisor of the Tehran City Council on transparency and smart city planning. Nima also…
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Gabriel Silva
Gabriel Silva is a Panamanian politician and lawyer currently serving as a Congressman of Panama. As one of the youngest, most voted, and most productive (based on approved laws) members of Congress, he has focused on fighting corruption, educational reform, economic development, and promoting science and technology. In Congress, Gabriel has served as leader of the Independent Caucus and president of several subcommittees. He is the author of Panama’s Sexual Education Law, Mental Health Law, Conflict of Interest Law, Creative Economy Law and several others. He is currently the only Panamanian politician that has publicly supported the LGTBQ+ community. Gabriel is also one of the founders and leaders of VAMOS,…
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Laura-Kristine Krause
Laura-Kristine Krause is Founding Director of More in Common Germany, an organization devoted to understanding the forces that are driving our democracies apart and to countering “us vs. them”-narratives. She also serves on the organization’s international executive team, alongside her colleagues from France, Poland, the UK, and the US. Laura is a leading expert on polarization and social cohesion and an advisor to key civil society organizations, initiatives, and political institutions. She also applies this lens to her role on the oversight board of Germany’s largest public broadcaster ZDF and her board roles in German philanthropy and public administration. She was a negotiator for the coalition treaty of the German…
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Tarek Mouganie
Tarek Mouganie is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and Founder and Group CEO of Affinity Africa, a digital bank that provides affordable and accessible services to micro and small and medium sized businesses. Since inception, Affinity's contribution has been profound, with nearly 90% of their customers previously unbanked, over 60% of whom are women operating in the informal sector. Tarek was previously a Director at Man Group where he managed a portfolio of investments within the $160 billion global investment fund. He started his career as an academic at the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD in Physics at the age of 21 and is currently an MBA Entrepreneurship Tutor…
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Roba El Husseini
Roba El Husseini is an investigative journalist who has published in-depth reports from the Middle East – Syria, Lebanon, Iraq – and Afghanistan. She is currently serving as Bureau Chief in Iraq for the French news agency AFP. Roba has spent more than a decade covering war-torn Syria and crisis-hit Lebanon, relaying breaking news and resulting human tragedies. She has reported on numerous military operations launched by various actors in Syria. As a war correspondent, she has also deployed multiple times to cover key battles against the Islamic State group in Mosul, Raqqa, and the jihadists' last stronghold of Baghouz. She has published investigations into the extortion of property from those displaced by the Syrian war; the primitive…
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