Anne Brasseur, born in 1950, is a Luxembourg politician (DP). Until January 2016, she was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. From 1999 to 2004, she was Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sport. From 2016 - 2018, she was the Council of Europe Ambassador of the No Hate Speech Movement. Since September 16, 2022, she has been a member of the Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Dr. Melinda Crane has given speeches and moderated events and discussions for a wide range of international organizations and firms. An experienced TV anchor, she is senior political analyst at DW TV and also hosts the DW talk show “To the Point”. Dr. Crane studied history and political science at Brown University and law at Harvard. She wrote her dissertation on the political economy of development assistance at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Her journalistic experience includes work for the “New York Times Magazine,” ”The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,” “The Boston Globe,” the “Christian Science Monitor” and German newspapers and magazines.

Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for over three decades, starting her career with The Times of India, subsequently moving to Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. She has been a primetime news anchor and has also worked as Consulting Editor, The Times Of India. Ghose is the author of the best selling biography of Indira Gandhi, "Indira, India's Most Powerful Prime Minister." and the theoretical work “Why I Am A Liberal”. She obtained a First-Class BA in History (Honours) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and MA and M.Phil degrees from Oxford University in History and International Relations, earned through a Rhodes Scholarship.

Wera Hobhouse, MP for Bath, has political experience at all levels. Born in Germany, she was a councillor in Rochdale from 2004 to 2014, where she was Cabinet Member for the Environment, Chair of the Health Scrutiny Committee and then Group Leader. She was first elected as the MP for Bath in 2017 and was re-elected in 2019 with a doubled majority. Wera is currently the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy & Climate Change and Transport, alongside being Shadow Leader of the House. She is the Chair of the APPG on Music Education, the APPG on Eating Disorders, and the APPG on Childhood Trauma. She successfully introduced what has become known as the Upskirting Bill, which is now law. Wera strongly believes that the UK needs to equitably meet its net zero targets and has called for more climate action at both a local and national level.

Frank Hoffmeister holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg (1998) and served as academic assistant at the Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law from 1998 until 2001. He then joined the European Commission where he worked first in the Cyprus Unit in DG Enlargement before becoming a member of the Commission Legal Service (external relations and institutional team). From 2010 to 2014 he acted as Deputy Head of Cabinet of the EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht, and as of 2015 he was Head of Unit dealing with anti-dumping at DG Trade. He joined the European External Action Service in November 2021 as Director for General Affairs and Head of the Legal Department. He teaches international economic law at the Free University of Brussels and has written extensively on EU and international law matters. He edited (together with J Wouters, G Debaere and T Ramopoulos)  The Law of EU External Relations , Cases, Materials and Commentary on the EU as an International Legal Actor (Oxford, OUP, third edition 2021).

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and member of the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. He was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times (2015-2021) and currently is a Financial Times contributing editor. He is the author of "Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe" (2020), “After Europe” (2017) and “Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest” (2014), among others. He won the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020.

Marta Lempart is the initiator of Black Monday - the first All-Poland Women's Strike against the tightening of the anti-abortion law. She is one of the leaders of the civic democratic opposition, co-organizer of protests in defence of the independence of the judiciary, against paedophilia in the church, and in defence of the rights of people with disabilities. She participates in anti-fascist blockades. She is a lawyer, legislator, and former director in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and in the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities. She has been charged with organizing and leading protests in more than 110 cases.

Oleksii Makeiev has been serving as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Germany since October 2022. He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, from the Institute of International Relations, with a diploma as a specialist in international relations and as a translator of Spanish. During his diplomatic career he worked in the Department of Political Analysis and Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in the Political Department of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Swiss Confederation, as an embassy counselor at the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany, as political director of the MFA of Ukraine and as the Special Representative of the MFA of Ukraine for Sanctions Policy.

Valeria Moy is General Director of the IMCO (Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad), a think-tank that studies economic and social phenomena that affect Mexico's competitiveness. She was director of Mexico, ¿cómo vamos?. She is an economist from ITAM, with a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics. She is a weekly columnist in El Universal and El País and participates as a recurring analyst on television, radio and national and international print publications. She has a weekly podcast on economic issues called Peras y Manzanas. Forbes has named her one of the 100 most powerful women in Mexico.

Raša Nedeljkov serves as the Program Director for CRTA, overseeing its programs with dedication since 2013. From 2016, Rasa has taken on the significant responsibility of leading CRTA’s election observation mission, guiding the coordination and leadership of various teams. Rasa possesses a nuanced understanding of Serbia's media environment and is in tune with the perceptions and needs of its citizens. While he actively represents CRTA and its insights, Rasa also offers his expertise on institutional performance, good governance, transparency, and development in Serbia, providing invaluable consultation and training to a range of institutions and organizations

Karl-Heinz Paqué studied economics at the Universities of Saarbrücken , Kiel and Bristish Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). After a research stay at the Center for Study of Public Choice, Blacksburg (Virginia) he received his doctoral degree in economics at Kiel University where he worked in different positions up to Director and Professor at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. Professor Paqué is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom from 2014 to 2018. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom with effect from 26 September 2018.

Isabelle Poupart worked as a lawyer prior to joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995.  Her first assignment abroad was at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN. She also worked for the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre. She served twice at the Joint Delegation of Canada to NATO in Brussels.  Upon her return to Ottawa, she worked as senior adviser to the Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues, Strategic Policy and Europe. She was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the OSCE, then Ambassador to Hungary, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since August 2019, she serves as Minister and Deputy Head of Mission of Canada to Germany.

Dorothy Jonas Semu serves as the ACT Wazalendo party National Vice Chairperson and Shadow Prime Minister in Tanzania. She previously held the position of party Secretary General for three years and the position of Secretary of Policy and Research. She holds a Master's degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Western Cape, South Africa. She boasts a 17-year tenure as a civil servant, with roles including Clinical Physiotherapist and Disability Control Coordinator at the Ministry of Health. Her contributions extended beyond government service, as she engaged as a consultant for the private company Fizio Limited and volunteers her expertise to the Tanzania Leprosy Association.

Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is a member of the FDP federal executive committee and the executive committee of the FDP parliamentary group. From 2008 to 2014, she was First Mayor and thus Deputy Mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 Bundestag elections. She has been Chair of the Defence Committee of the German Bundestag since 2021.