2024 Speakers

  • Salman Rushdie

    One of The Most Celebrated Authors of Our Time

  • Masih Alinejad

    Iranian Journalist and Women’s Rights Activist

  • Audrey Tang

    Taiwan’s First Digital Minister
    (2016-2024)

  • Nathan Law

    Hong Kong Democracy Activist

  • David French

    Columnist, The New York Times

  • Suzanne Nossel

    President and CEO, Freedom Forum

  • Nadine Strossen

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

  • Musa Al-Gharbi

    Assistant Professor of Journalism, Communication and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stony Brook University

  • Rana Ayyub

    Columnist, The Washington Post

  • James Bennet

    Senior Editor and Lexington Columnist, The Economist

  • Daniel Diermeier

    Chancellor, Vanderbilt University

  • Jacob Mchangama

    Founder and Executive Director, The Future of Free Speech

  • Sarah McLaughlin

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

  • Freddie Sayers

    Editor-in-Chief and CEO, UnHerd

  • John M. Seigenthaler

    Partner, Finn Partners and former NBC anchor

  • Renee DiResta

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

  • Faisal Saeed Al Mutar

    Founder, Ideas Beyond Borders

  • Samar Ali

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

  • Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte

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

  • Joan Barata

    Senior Legal Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

  • Matt Brassard

    Head of Growth, Ground News

  • Anupam Chander

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

  • Neil Chilson

    Head of A.I. Policy, The Abundance Institute

  • Mishi Choudhary

    Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Virtu

  • Rodrigo Dianamti

    President & Founder, Un Mundo Sin Mordaza

  • Inaya Folarin Iman

    Journalist and Executive Director, Equiano Project

  • Sayash Kapoor

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

  • Ritu Kapur

    CEO and Co-Founder, The Quint

  • Amna Khalid

    Associate Professor in the Department of History, Carleton College

  • Jeff Kosseff

    Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Future of Free Speech

  • Billion Lee

    Co-Founder and Director, Cofacts

  • Chidi Odinkalu

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

  • Szabolcs Panyi

    Investigative Editor, Central European Investigations, VSquare

  • David Plazas

    Opinion and Engagement Director, The Tennessean

  • Jonas Parello-Plesner

    Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation

  • Guilherme Döring Cunha Pereira

    President, Gazeta do Povo

  • Francesca Procaccini

    Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School

  • Jeffrey Sachs

    Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Acadia University 

  • Sarah Shirazyan

    Director and Head of GenAI Policy at Meta, Inc. and a Lecturer at Stanford Law School

  • David Sullivan

    Executive Director, Digital Trust & Safety Partnership