Maxine Tanya Hamada is a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. After serving as the Assistant Secretary for Monitoring and Evaluation in the Philippines’ Department of Budget and Management, she is now a research fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies. Prior, she also served as the executive director…

Ana Gomes has been a Member of the European Parliament from Portugal since 2004. She serves on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs, and on the Subcommittee for Security and Defense. Gomes was a diplomat in the Portuguese Foreign Service until she joined party politics in 2003. She is also a member…

Kadhim Mohsin is a well-known Iraqi civil society activist and university professor. He was a leading figure in the 2015 protests that demanded reform and an end of corruption in Basra, Iraq. He now heads the Nissan Center for Democratic Awareness, and provides leadership in a broad social movement to empower civic-minded youth in Basra.

Rachid Ghannouchi is a Tunisian political activist and the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party, a moderate Muslim Democratic party formed in Tunisia in 1981. He spent 22 years in exile before returning to Tunisia for the elections in 2011. Ghannouchi was awarded the Chatham House Prize in 2012 and included in Foreign Policy’s the list…